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Tag: Place Names

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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People around the world are turning off their lights for #EarthHour tonight at 8.30pm (local time).
Ramadan Mubarak.
One day the sun admitted,
Today as they dye the Šikaakwa Siipiiwi (Chicago River) green, we're remembering it's significance, as a major traditional portage route between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, as a place once abundant with šikaakwa (ramps).
Ingenious, Indigenous cartography: The Tunumiit (Eastern Greenlandic Inuit) practice of carving portable maps out of driftwood to be used while navigating coastal waters. These pieces, which are small enough to be carried in a mitten, represent coastlines in a continuous line, up one side of the wood and down the other. The maps are compact, buoyant, and can be read in the dark.
Does your local museum or university still have stolen Native American remains?
Corporations want to bring back child labor, and some states are on board.
Map: andywoodruff.com
ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project is the single largest proposed oil extraction project currently threatening US public lands. @joebiden @secdebhaaland - keep your climate promises and stop this project once and for all.
They paved paradise.
Before it was burned down by the British in 1873, Kumasi had been, for centuries, a city of wide avenues lined by homes with central courtyards and verandas facing the street. The clay walls were sculpted with symbols like sankofa to represent Asante proverbs.
It's been 28 years since Philippine Mining Act of 1995 opened the floodgates for the massive plunder and destruction of natural resources, displacement of communities, and violations of the collective rights of Indigenous peoples by transnational corporations. This map features mining tenements in the Philippines, which are defined as all tenurial instruments providing mining rights.
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