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How America Got Its Name

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Colorful River Basin Maps

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Place Name Etymology in Western Hemisphere

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Quechua Country

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Taino Names of the Caribbean Islands

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The World in Guarani

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“The food system was built on the stolen land and stolen labor of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian and people of color. We are claiming our sovereignty and calling for reparations of land and resources so that we can grow nourishing food and distribute it in our communities.”⠀ ⠀ The Reparations Map for BIPOC (black, indigenous, people of color) Farmers was made by @soulfirefarm , a BIPOC centered community farm committed to ending racism and injustice in the food system. It features different farmers of color all over the US seeking reparations: “financial payments made today to help make good on the systemic injustices of the past 400 years.”⠀ ⠀ https://buff.ly/2SFGhZ8
Polar bears are struggling as sea ice declines. When there’s no sea ice platform, the bears end up moving onto land with no or minimal access to food.⠀ ⠀ https://buff.ly/37TPXUU
The Civil Rights Movement won us the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which eliminated many of the Jim Crow voting laws. But since then, there hasn't been much improvement. Voter suppression rears its head in every election, and it starts with voter registration. The US is one of only a few democracies in the world where the burden of registering to vote falls on the voters.⠀ ⠀ #AutomaticVoterRegistration #UniversalVoterRegistration
Moccasins: The vernacular design of indigenous footwear.⠀ ⠀ https://buff.ly/3bMp0EV
Jeanine Áñez, Bolivia's illegitimate self-declared president, believes that "the city is not for the Indians, they should go to the high plains."⠀ ⠀ Right-wing Christian fundamentalism is not for Bolivia. She should go back to Europe.⠀ ⠀ #ElMundoConEvo #GeneracionWiphala ‪#RenameReclaimDecolonize
An Roinn-Eòrpa anns a ’Ghàidhlig⠀ ⠀ https://buff.ly/3bQkXHJ
As the settlers moved across the continent, they covered the land with the names of colonizers, slave-holders, and committers of genocide. Its astonishing that these people are honored at all, let alone relentlessly.⠀ ⠀ #PresidentsDay #RenameReclaimDecolonize⠀ ⠀ https://buff.ly/39EXtDC
"I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves." - Harriet Tubman⠀ ⠀ https://buff.ly/2S5brJ8
It's Presidents' Day, so let's remember the Sullivan Campaign of 1779 ordered by George Washington to destroy the Iroquois Confederacy in Pennsylvania and Western New York, forcing them to flee their homeland. Washington, and all subsequent presidents, have henceforth been known in Seneca as Hanödaga:nyas - "Destroyer of towns."
In related news: "Do you speak Hindu?"
Immigrants settle in diverse US regions, often outside major cities, due to refugee resettlement programs, job opportunities, and kinship.⠀ ⠀ From @the.pudding - Countries, mapped to the US region with the largest percentage of its immigrants and expatriates among the total population.⠀ ⠀ https://pudding.cool/2020/01/diaspora/
“They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left. Later, they discovered that no matter where they lived, geography could not save them... Over the decades, perhaps the wrong questions have been asked about the Great Migration. Perhaps it is not a question of whether the migrants brought good or ill to the cities they fled to or were pushed or pulled to their destinations, but a question of how they summoned the courage to leave in the first place or how they found the will to press beyond the forces against them and the faith in a country that had rejected them for so long.” - Isabel Wilkerson https://www.coursehero.com/sg/us-history/first-and-second-great-migrations/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Percentage_of_African_American_population_living_in_the_American_South.png
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