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March 20, 2021March 20, 2021decolonialatlas

Slavers of New York

January 29, 2021January 29, 2021decolonialatlas

Place Names of Klallam Territory

August 22, 2020August 22, 2020decolonialatlas

Why Some Places Don’t Have Names

August 6, 2020August 6, 2020decolonialatlas

Six Nations in Mohawk

January 20, 2018February 4, 2018decolonialatlas

Minneapolis–St. Paul in Dakota and Ojibwe

September 13, 2017January 16, 2021decolonialatlas

Unangam Tanangin – The Aleutian Islands

June 2, 2017June 2, 2017decolonialatlas

How America Got Its Name

March 20, 2016January 28, 2018decolonialatlas

Pine Ridge Reservation in Lakota

February 1, 2016August 6, 2022decolonialatlas

Rojava in Kurdish, Aramaic, and Arabic

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Tourists need to respect Indigenous sovereignty on Indigenous land. When the Kānaka Maoli ask tourists to stop coming to Hawaiʻi, they should cancel that trip without hesitation. When the Miꞌkmaq ask for recognition of their language, tourists should make an effort to learn Mi’kmaq place names. No more callous, uninvited tourism on stolen lands.
Pueblo architecture can be understood in the context of "a world in which a house or structure is not an object—or a machine to live in—but is part of a cosmological world view that recognizes multiplicity, simultaneity, inclusiveness, and interconnectedness" according to Rina Swentzell (Santa Clara Pueblo). In this tradition, buildings are seen as living entities with a finite lifespan, and "are fed cornmeal after construction so that they may have a good life." The "center" is an important concept, with the plaza as both the physical center of the village and the metaphysical center of the universe.
The Interior Department announced that it officially voted to rename more than 600 places in the U.S. that include a racist slur against Native women. Sq**w Creek is now Nammi’I Naokwaide (Shoshoni for "Young Sister Creek"). Sq**w Mountain is now Mestaa’ėhehe Mountain, honoring Owl Woman of the Cheyenne.
Undercelebrated: the Māori activists who marched and occupied, who fought for and won the 1995 Waikato Raupatu Claims Settlement Act, and got the Queen to reluctantly apologize - for the first time in her life, in-public, on Māori territory, wearing a korowai to show respect - for the 1863 invasion of Waikato by her great-grandmother Victoria's army.
No nostalgia for empire.
Now in season: Turtle Island's largest native fruit.
Makxoche Washte, the Beautiful Country: a geography of the Ocheti Shakowin by Dakota Wind. The map details a Dakhóta-Lakȟóta perspective using place names meticulously gathered from winter counts, oral tradition, interviews, maps, and books.
Our world is home to a magnificent variety of plants and animals and cultures and languages. But (in)human activity has increased the species extinction rate to 10,000 times the historically normal rate, and of the planet’s 7,000 languages, most are predicted to go silent in the next century. This is the biocultural extinction crisis – the converging losses of biodiversity and cultural diversity that will forever change our world unless we act now.
A while ago, we asked the "Wild Green Memes for Ecological Fiends" FB group to tell us what they love about Nature around them. Here's what they shared.
For 500 years, the Doctrine of Discovery has provided the framework for nominally Christian nations to legitimize the invasion and domination of Indigenous peoples and seizure of their lands, codified through Papal Bulls, royal charters, and even US Supreme Court cases.
#LandBack #Reparations #RescindTheDoctrineOfDiscovery
#ThisIsAClimateEmergency
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