Happy Indigenous People's Day from the Winnemem Wintu Tribe
Chief Caleen Sisk: Indigenous California Indians......YES!!! Still dancing on the lands where we are from, still drinking waters from the lands we live on, and we will always take care of the spiritual responsibilities to and for Mother Earth!
We are trying to reach the people of Japan, to help Protect Sacred Buliyum Puyuuk (Mt. Shasta). Please share with your Japanese friends!
Chief Caleen Sisk, Winnemem Wintu: "...We're Indigenous here, as they are to Mt. Fuji. I understand that there are many people in Japan who hold Mt. Fuji very sacred. Crystal Geyser is a company coming from Japan. ...This water is more than just pure water. It's sacred water. And we need to protect it. I ask the people in Japan to help us Honor the Sacred.”
Junipero Serra was NO SAINT!
He presided over a genocidal system of forced labor which decimated many of California’s tribes.
Pope Francis intends to canonize him as a saint.
Pope Francis is about to declare that this zealot-murderer is a saint.
Tumblr remains strangely silent...
#SerraNoSaint
#SaveOakFlat #ProtectOakFlat #SaveApacheLands
Please help save my home!
Hello there! I’m Kamyren and I was born in Hawaii.
We all know how beautiful it is and how wonderful mother nature was to create such a place (mother nature has her favorites and Hawaii is one of them)
but we need your help!
This is Mauna Kea a dormant volcano on Hawaii. The University of Hawaii is the ones who look after the volcano, due to it’s height it’s a popular place for the college’s study of astronomy. Now though they’re planning on adding another large telescope worth a billion dollars
The problem is though that they are doing it on sacred ground! Hawaiians have come now and protested the site when it was holding a groundbreaking ceremony because the Hawaiians believe that the sacred ground should be kept sacred! They gathered a peaceful protest which was then returned with arrests on the peaceful protesters.
Please please help! There is not a lot of coverage on this! They have already put so many telescopes on there and this would take even more land away . Please consider signing this petition and sharing the petition and this post. #wearemaunakea please don’t let my voice and the voices of so many others be silenced.
Sign the petition here:
Thank you! Mahalo mahalo mahalo!
(None of these pictures are mine!)
Sources:
stopdisrespectingculture
And don’t forget that the telescopes already there are already poisoning water supplies and deteriorating the ecosystem.
-Chantel
THANK you for this space. THANK you for offering it to the world, and more importantly, to others who need it so badly to know that they are not alone. THank you.
Thank you for sharing, and for supporting Indigenous struggles and freedom for all peoples!
Indigenous Feminist scholar blog to check out!
Recent posts on native cameos, why I wear native jewelry, and others are fantastic.
Yes. Congratulations on your recently earned PhD, Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy, of the Hoopa Valley Tribe!
Panther Meadows, on Mt. Shasta is the sacred genesis place of the Winnemem Wintu people. The US Forest Service has ignored numerous requests by our tribe and the Pit River tribe to close the meadow, due to its fragile ecology. We have led the efforts at restoration to bring the meadow back from years of overuse and ignorant treatment, but it has been an uphill battle. This weekend, with the possibility of many Rainbow people, who have been partying nearby, converging on the mountain, we decided to protect our sacred site. Here is one of many of the clueless, disrespectful people we have encountered.
Support the Protectors of Mauna Kea!
#TMTshutdown
This!
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8
Worldwide Rally in Support of Mauna Kea
Hold signs in your community! • Post support photos online!
Maori Woman Warrior
Interview with a young Maori woman, following in her ancestors footsteps, who performed the "challenge" to a British government during a formal Powhiri, or greeting ceremony.
Depicting one of the most notorious events in the early European trade with New Zealand, this painting demonstrates a turn-of-the-century focus on local history subjects to foster national identity in art. En route to Cape Town from Sydney in 1809, the Boyd anchored in Whangaroa Harbour, Northland, to load kauri spars and allow Māori passengers to disembark. Contemporary accounts suggest that the flogging of a rangatira during the voyage prompted the events that followed. The captain and crew were lured ashore and massacred, the ship was looted and an exploding barrel of gunpowder killed more people. The artist represents this dramatic moment in an image which successfully integrates two traditional subjects of European art - the battle at sea and the coastal landscape. By using a low viewpoint and placing the waka in the foreground, Wright enhances the impression of a ship under attack, a symbol of civilisation and Christianity succumbing to the dire forces of pagan savages. The symbolism of good and evil extends to the contrast between the Māori, who are shown in shadow, and the Boyd, in clear sunlight. Naturalistic rendering of detail and refined technique are characteristic of Wright and derive from his study at Heatherly’s in London and with Stanhope Forbes in Newlyn, Cornwall. (from The Guide, 2001)
Click here to watch Jon Stewart discuss the 50th anniversary of Selma with Representative John Lewis.
No one had the heart to tell her they’d all quit eating gluten the week before …
Making banners, and reviewing material we will present to elementary students while at the Counselor chapter house, during our walk, Nihígaal bee Iiná. Material included an explanation of how energy resource extraction poisons, pollutes and subjugates our communities as economic hostages, highlighting the dangers of fracking within the Eastern Agency of the Navajo reservation: also, the importance of Dinétah, Diné philosophy, and taking pride in our ways as Diné: and lastly, emphasizing how we should respect, protect, and listen to our Diné women because violence upon her is the destruction of land and culture, the disruption of ké, and the obstruction of our matrilineal systems that prevent abuse, a withdrawal from practicing the healing that is inherent within loving our sisters, daughters, mothers and grandmothers.