Hey all happy #4thofjuly! To celebrate I'd like to share the Indiana Miami Nation's gofundme for revamping their 83 year old tribal complex building. https://gofund.me/b393f4b4
The Indigenous Shasta Nation of California just won 2800 acres of their land back after 100 yrs, the largest in California #history! And, California is paying for it! It's part of the Klamath River dam removal project, an ecological project which revives a 300 mile salmon habitat! Shasta land was stolen in the 1848 Gold Rush & 1911 by imminent domain for the Copco No 1 Dam. Shasta chairman Janice Crowe said “Today is a turning point in the history of the Shasta people” #news#indigenous#uspol
"...the vast majority of the churches on Apache land teach families who participate in traditional ceremonies that they’re damning themselves by worshiping the devil"
Juneteenth has #Indigenous history. When Black people who escaped slavery in Florida joined the Seminole Tribe, they became Black Seminoles. They're also called Mascogos b/c they migrated to Mexico, where slavery was already abolished. The Mascogos built the town El Nacimiento in 1852, but still interacted with Seminoles in Texas who brought them Juneteenth in the 1870s. Black Seminoles in Mexico had to survive slavery, the Trail of Tears, & the US-Mexico Border to celebrate #juneteenth#history
The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation successfully protected a piece of sacred #Indigenous lands in northern #California from wind energy development by petitioning the federal government to include it in an existing national monument.
But they also want a co-stewardship or co-management agreement with the feds.
Although they're sometimes used interchangeably, "co-stewardship" and "co-management" are different. Management means decision making power. Stewardship doesn't.
Map illustrating the different ca. 800 BC-AD 1700 Indigenous cultures of which Southwest Louisiana, particularly Beauregard & Vernon Parishes, were in the hinterlands (fringe) of. #Archaeology#History#Indigenous
More than 2,000 people are gathering in Hawaiʻi this week and next for the 13th Festival of Pacific Island Arts and Culture. It’s the largest gathering of Indigenous Pacific peoples in the world. The festival highlights a cultural scene that is threatened by rising seas and dangerous storms.
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