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January 23, 2021January 23, 2021decolonialatlas

Bandaiyan: Indigenous Names of Australian Cities

March 20, 2016January 28, 2018decolonialatlas

Pine Ridge Reservation in Lakota

February 1, 2016August 6, 2022decolonialatlas

Rojava in Kurdish, Aramaic, and Arabic

January 25, 2016November 5, 2017decolonialatlas

Australia: Aboriginal Territories and Placenames

August 21, 2015February 2, 2017decolonialatlas

Menominee Treaty Lands

June 15, 2015May 8, 2017decolonialatlas

Place Name Etymology in Western Hemisphere

June 3, 2015May 8, 2017decolonialatlas

The Hawaiian Islands in Hawaiian

May 15, 2015February 2, 2017decolonialatlas

Indigenous Names for Mount McKinley

April 30, 2015August 6, 2022decolonialatlas

The Rockies: An Arapaho Perspective

April 24, 2015August 6, 2022decolonialatlas

South Asia Decolonized: Native Place Names, No Borders

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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
Politicians will talk of spreading democracy, when what they mean is installing governments that will uphold an economic system that's fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
White supremacists are still wrapping their racism in pseudoscience.
In 1994, the Zapatista uprising deprivatized large swaths of Chiapas, putting the land back under Indigenous stewardship. For the past 26 years, Zapatista communities have been growing the infrastructure of self-governance, establishing worker coorperatives, and teaching children in their Maya langauges.
As leader of the party that's ruled Japan almost continuously since 1955, Shinzo Abe's campaign slogan was Kono Michi Shikanai “There Is No Other Way.” Abe's only genuine opposition in government came from the Japanese Communist Party, a continual force against militarism and neoliberalism for 100 years. There is another way.
The land. The people. All bound together.
Bodily autonomy also includes ending forced sterilization, which is still legal and regularly ordered by judges in 31 states.
The crisis is not at the border, the crisis is the border. Borders are not only created through violence but also maintained through violence. Violence isn’t happening at the border, the border is violence.
Liberals. For the last time. Seceding, renouncing your US citizenship, or boycotting the South won't help anyone.
So then we're basically cool with the fact that 85% of US counties are unlivable?
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