A Papuan activist applies soils on her face as a symbol of grief during a protest against deforestation by palm oil companies on their indigenous land in Papua, outside the country's Supreme Court in Jakarta, Indonesia. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

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#Indonesia
#Papua
#indigenous
#deforestation

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#Cvkvlv #CvkvlvBeadwork #Mvskoke #Native #Indigenous #NativeAmerican #Beadwork #Jewelry #Earrings #Handmade #IndigenousCreatives #Queer #Pride #PrideMonth #PrideMonth2024 #NonBinary #2S #TwoSpirit #Genderqueer

1924: an #Indigenous man hunts a deer on treaty-reserved land. Gets criminally convicted.

The ruling said tribal nations are not sovereign or independent, "the Indians being mere occupants of the land.”

The hunter died decades ago. The family member who continued his case died in 2007. But a tribal attorney kept pushing to get the unjust, demeaning conviction reversed.

On Thursday, nearly a century later, the #Washington state Supreme Court admitted it was wrong.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/wa-supreme-court-reverses-century-old-yakama-decision-an-injustice/

WA Supreme Court reverses century-old Yakama decision: ‘An injustice’

The case is part of a yearslong effort by the court to address racism in the legal system. The decision shows the justices grappling with how best to do so.

^{The Seattle Times}

Right-wing Australian billionaire and money-bag climate change denier Gina Reinhart apparently doesn't want people to see her portrait by the Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira in the National Gallery.

So it would be *just awful* if people share this article and her portrait.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/15/gina-rinehart-demands-national-gallery-of-australia-remove-her-portrait.

Personally, I think it's great - and might make a very attractive t-shirt?

#billionaires #auspol #australia #press #media #indigenous #art

Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait

NGA rebuffs efforts by billionaire to take down painting by award-winning artist Vincent Namatjira

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

Pailona Ramirez from Guarani people looks on during rain at Pindo Poty village after it was flooded, in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. REUTERS/Adriano Machado

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#Brazil
#rain
#flood
#women
#indigenous

After the protests and the library occupation at #Portland State, the university wanted police to monitor the 51st annual Naimuma Powwow, which was scheduled on campus for May 04. Organizers didn’t love that idea of having police there, so they rescheduled the powwow for May 25th.



Then something special happened: students and #Indigenous community members showed up on May 04 anyway, in the park blocks by the university, and held a spontaneous Powwow for #Palestine.

https://www.underscore.news/reporting/a-powwow-for-palestine

A Powwow for Palestine

When the annual powwow at Portland State University was pressured to have a police presence due to an encampment in support of Palestine, Native students and community members organized a powwow for Palestine and MMIR.

^{www.underscore.news}

Mother's Day just passed, but let's remember the Indigenous women who couldn't be mothers because of the stеriIizаtion programs led by the US like in the 1940s against Mexicans under California's 1909 Eugenics law or the 1970 law that stеriΙzed at least 25% of Native American women

#indigenous #history #women #uspol

“They almost annihilated us, and that genocide continues. To destroy the environment you have to destroy the people who protect it.”

From our magazine: An industrial buildout on the southern tip of #Texas is erasing the last traces of an ancient world that still hasn’t died. From Correspondent Dylan Baddour: https://www.texasobserver.org/forgotten-keepers-of-the-rio-grande-delta/

#news #politics #USpol #environment #ClimateChange #Indigenous #SouthTexas

Defenders of the Delta: A Tribal Leader Fights for Ancestral Land in South Texas

Juan Mancias leads the Carrizo/Comecrudo, unrecognized and little-known, in a struggle against fossil fuels, SpaceX, and historical erasure.

^{Dylan Baddour (The Texas Observer)}

Ontario First Nations denied equal access to justice, lawsuit alleges

Lawsuit says the lack of resources is harming First Nations people
"A statement of claim filed by the Chiefs of Ontario says that many provincial and federal laws — including those related to tenancy, land management and environmental protection — don't apply on reserves."

#News #Indigenous #Onpoli #Canpoli #HumanRights #Legal
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/first-nations-equal-access-justice-1.7196842

Northern Cree community students' project on natural fire retardants in boreal forest wins at science fair

Kristopher Neeposh and Rory Henry-Felstead won 1st place at Quebec Indigenous Science Fair

Their most significant finding was that jack pine extract, applied to different materials, seemed to slow the spread of flames. They found that it even out-performed ammonium sulfate, a commercially available fire retardant.

#News #ClimateCrisis #Indigenous #Wildfire
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/cree-students-nemaska-science-fair-boreal-fire-retardants-1.7165226

Reservation Dogs won its second Peabody Award.

The third and final season of the breakthrough series Reservation Dogs exemplifies the power of indigenous storytelling over ten exquisite and nuanced episodes chronicling life on and off the reservation.

The winners of the 84th annual Peabody Awards will be celebrated on Sunday, June 9 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles.

#RezDogs #ReservationDogs #Native #Indigenous
https://peabodyawards.com/stories/84th-annual-peabody-award-winners-announced/

To make the moon a graveyard goes against the beliefs of various human religions.

Here’s a look at what believers would say about this winter’s attempt to send a probe holding the remains of paying customers to the lunar surface

https://theconversation.com/why-having-human-remains-land-on-the-moon-poses-difficult-questions-for-members-of-several-religions-221399
#religion #indigenous @philosophy

Why having human remains land on the Moon poses difficult questions for members of several religions

Two scholars who study death rituals explain that the corpse is considered spiritually polluting in many religious traditions, while the Moon holds a sacred place.

^{The Conversation}

This story must be told

Rufino Choque, a member of the Urus indigenous community, stands atop a boat in the middle of the extinct Poopo Lake. Once spanning 3,000 square kilometers, this body of water was declared vanished in 2015. (Oruro, Bolivia. December 2021)

http://www.mnwlswne.com/

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#Bolivia
#lake
#drought
#indigenous