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The United States in Cherokee

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State-based privilege is the unearned advantage accrued by an individual by virtue of holding a passport from a particular country. Europeans colonized most of the world. Now they can travel around it visa-free. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/96is5o/passport_power_by_population_of_visafree_visa_on/

Map of every nuclear explosion, 1945-1998, by Isao Hashimoto.⠀ ⠀ Since 1945’s Trinity test in New Mexico, 73 years ago today, 2053 nuclear bombs have exploded on Earth.⠀ Watch this amazing time-lapse by Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto of every nuclear explosion to date:⠀ https://buff.ly/2ncxKPv⠀ ⠀ #HISTORICAL #REGION #WORLD

More than 3,100 migrants died crossing Mediterranean in 2017. People should not have to put their lives at risk to cross imaginary borders. https://buff.ly/2IUTxWp

Baltic Tribes circa 1200 CE The Baltic region of Europe (modern Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, and Poland) circa 1200 CE. The Baltic tribes of this era practiced various forms of paganism about which little is known today. Beginning in the 13th century CE, Christian crusaders from Denmark, Sweden, and Germany invaded the Baltic region, converting tribes in what was one of the last parts of Europe to be Christianized. European people are indigenous people. In the words of Ward Churchill, “Euro-Americans are indigenous people too. Not here, but they’re indigenous to somewhere with indigenous traditions and understandings of the land. They need to get back in touch with that. They must recover that which has been taken from them in the process of colonization, taken in the same fashion that things are being taken from us, now.” #Historical #Region #Europe

Cavelandia – The Yuchi Homeland Cavelandia is a region of extraordinarily karst topography across the modern states of Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, Virginia, and Georgia. Tens of thousands of caves lie beneath the surface, including Mammoth Cave – the longest in the world. In the Yuchi language, this area is known as S’akabaha, meaning “Cave land.” The Yuchi, who call themselves Tsoyaha, or “Children of the sun,” are one of the original inhabitants of this region. Indeed, “Cavelanders” was once a common appellation for the Yuchi people. Caves were a central part of Yuchean spirituality, and dozens of caves in S’akabaha contain ancient glyphic inscriptions, the most common of which is that of the Tso (the sacred sun symbol). There is little doubt that the Yuchi played a large role in these cave inscriptions. The elder’s traditions describe initiatory rites performed in caves, and the priests often retired to the caves to journey to the lower worlds. Important Yuchi leaders were also often interred in caves after their deaths. These caves are very sacred to the Yuchi, and must be protected. Map by Woktela D.K. Hackett, Yuchi Tribal Historian, and Jordan Engel For more information on the Yuchi, visit https://buff.ly/2LjTy2M or https://buff.ly/2LjTyji #Bioregional #DecolonialAtlas #Originals #IndigenousPerspectives #Region #NorthAmerica

"Nationalism, in my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression." - Albert Einstein

Global Agriculture: Where, What and How We Grow⠀ ⠀ This series of maps comes from National Geographic’s “A Five-Step Plan to Feed the World.” The maps detail in what ways we can be more efficient about where we grow, what we grow, and how we grow.⠀ ⠀ Where Agriculture Exists: Pasture vs. Cropland. Source: https://buff.ly/1POYu0E⠀ ⠀ We can no longer afford to increase food production through agricultural expansion. Nearly all new food production in the next 25 years will have to come from existing agricultural land.⠀ ⠀ How Our Crops Are Used: Food vs. Feed and Fuel. Source: https://buff.ly/1POYu0E⠀ ⠀ Only 55 percent of food-crop calories directly nourish people. Meat, dairy, and eggs from animals raised on feed supply another 4 percent. It would be easier to feed the planet if more of the crops we grew ended up in human stomachs.⠀ ⠀ Where Yields Could Improve. Source: https://buff.ly/1POYu0E⠀ ⠀ Improving nutrient and water supplies where yields are lowest could result in a 58 percent increase in global food production.⠀ ⠀ All maps and graphics: Virginia W. Mason and Jason Treat, NGM Staff. A World Demanding More, source: David Tilman, University of Minnesota. Agriculture’s Footprint, source: Roger LeB. Hooke, University of Maine. Maps, source: Global Landscapes Initiative, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota.⠀ ⠀ #CurrentIssues #World

#Cymru (#Wales) in #Cymraeg (#Welsh) ⠀ ⠀ #IndigenousPerspectives #Europe

This is the Mercator projection. You know, the one that usually makes Greenland appear as big as Africa. Except this version has shifted the North Pole to the "Equator," thus changing the relative size of the continents. To be clear, South America is not actually larger than Asia. The Mercator projection is just really really bad at representing area.⠀ ⠀ via /u/YoureTheVest & r/MapPorn

Extermination of American Bison to 1889⠀ ⠀ Source: https://buff.ly/2IN5Lw0⠀ ⠀ The American bison, the largest living land animal on the continent, came dangerously close to extinction at the hands of settlers. Prior to colonization, it is estimated that there were about 60 million bison across Turtle Island. By 1870, there were only 5 million, and in 1889, at the height of the great bison slaughter, there were less than 1,000 living individuals. Today, the American bison population is growing again, with approximately 30,000 bison living on public lands, and 500,000 on non-public lands.⠀ ⠀ #Historical #Region #NorthAmerica #TurtleIsland

Non-Native Plant Species in North American Forests⠀ ⠀ source: https://buff.ly/2IICORX⠀ ⠀ Colonization can be a biological process as well a cultural one. As Europeans settled Turtle Island, they brought their entire ecosystem with them, introducing scores of non-native species to the continent. A non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental. Non-native species which are harmful to a local ecosystem are called invasive species. The term “invasive” is used for the most aggressive species. Although the numbers vary widely, some of the current research estimates that there are approximately 50,000 non-native species in the United States today. However, of that 50,000 species, approximately 4,300 are considered invasive species [1]. These species grow and reproduce rapidly, causing major disturbances to the areas in which they are present, and threatening biodiversity. Approximately 42% of threatened or endangered species are at risk due to non-native, invasive species [2].⠀ ⠀ [1] https://buff.ly/2IN5d9q⠀ [2] https://buff.ly/2s4AC17⠀ ⠀ #CurrentIssues #Region #NorthAmerica #TurtleIsland

2/2 Pre-Christian Religions of Europe Around the Time of Jesus⠀ ⠀ Balkan – Dacian (Zalmoxianism), Thracian, and Illyrian polytheism, and Albanian mythology.⠀ Baltic – Latvian (Dievturi), Lithuania (Romuva), and Prussian (Druwi) polytheism.⠀ Basque – Basque mythology.⠀ Berber and Punic – Traditional Berber religion, and Punic religion.⠀ Celtic – Celtic polytheism (the religion of the druids), and the syncretic Gallo-Roman polytheism.⠀ Germanic – Old Norse (Forn Sed), Continental Germanic (Irminism), Anglo-Saxon (Fyrnsidu), and Gothic polytheism.⠀ Hellenistic – The Roman religion (Religio Romana), the Roman Imperial Cult, the Ancient Greek religion (Hellenismos), the Luwian religion, the Eleusinian Mysteries, the Dionysian Mysteries, and Orphism.⠀ Iranian – Zoroastrianism, Mithraism, the Sarmatian religion, the Scythian religion (Uatsdin), the Mesopotamian religion, and the syncretic Zoroastrian-Armenian polytheism.⠀ Sami – Sami shamanism, animism and polytheism.⠀ Semitic – Judaism, Semitic polytheism (including the Canaanite religion and the Nabataean religion).⠀ Slavic – The Slavic religion (Rodnovery).⠀ Uralic – Finnish (Suomenusko), Estonian (Maausk), and Hungarian (Ősmagyar Vallás) polytheism.⠀ ⠀ Christianity gained converts through the work of missionaries like Saint Patrick, through royal decree like Constantine’s Edict of Milan, and by force as in the Northern Crusades. By the Middle Ages, so entrenched was Christianity in Europe that the continent was commonly referred to simply as Christendom. But the Christianization of Europe was not as absolute as many now think. Pagan traditions survived independently for centuries in some places long after they had been officially Christianized. True to its etymology, pagans found refuge in rural areas. Some of the later attempts to extinguish the remnants of indigenous religion in Western Europe include The Spanish Inquisition and the witch hunts of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. In Northern Scandinavia, traditional Sami religion was never fully eradicated and its practice continues today. For other traditions whose lineages were broken, the new generations that have begun to revive them are collectively calle