A coalition of First Nations has offered to purchase the struggling Hudson’s Bay Company in exchange for tobacco, blanket

“We may be willing to go as high as a copper kettle, but that’s about it.”

#HBC #Colonialism #Capitalism #Indigenous #Irony

https://walkingeaglenews.com/2025/03/17/first-nations-offer-to-buy-iconic-hudsons-bay-store-chain-for-tobacco-blanket/

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Imprisoned since 2010 without a sentence, a Oaxaca court sentenced Zapotec environmental defender Pablo López Alavez from San Isidro Aloápam to thirty years in prison on March 6. His crime? Defending his community's forest from illegal logging.

https://desinformemonos.org/condenan-a-30-anos-de-prision-al-defensor-zapoteca-pablo-lopez-alavez/

Inside the Schools Alaska Ignored
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Two inches of raw sewage. Black mold. A bat infestation. Reporter Emily Schwing shares what she uncovered as she investigated dangerous conditions inside Alaska’s deteriorating public schools.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-deterioriating-public-schools-reporting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

You couldn't write this stuff. Destruction of protected rainforest so that a four-lane highway can be ran through it, so that people can get to Belém to attend COP30...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o

I didn't set out to purposefully learn how soon the rain will be here based on the sound of it coming, but after living here for a while, I can do that.

It's very place-specific. I'm sure that if I went somewhere else with different rain patterns, I'd be way off.

This is my favorite kind of learning: the kind you get just from hanging out with nature long enough.

This is the foundation of a lot of indigenous knowledge: being in a place, living with it, being a part of its cycles, and gaining that knowledge. Now, multiply that by many many generations of people who purposefully shared that knowledge with the next generation. This is not knowledge that can even be gained in a single generation because some of these cycles span many many many generations. This is the kind of knowledge that enables living with the land. And for those of us in the "modern world" who have been totally cut off from that knowledge, tossed far from where our ancestors lived, think of the disadvantage we have when it comes to starting to live with the land.

This is why it's so important to listen to indigenous folks when it comes to living with the land - because a lot of the rules they've got around how to relate to the land have been hard won over generations, despite hundreds of years of colonizers trying to sever people from ancestral knowledge and sever people from their lands.

Resisting US imperialism in Hawaii, debunking colonial propaganda, making anti-capitalist #dystopian games like Neofeud 2! #indigenous perspectives! #indiedev #indiegame :) https://twitch.tv/silverspook

NEXT WEEK
Kevin King @calligraphio lecture about
Indigenous Language Support: A Design Process

The Indigenous languages in North America feature not only a richness in linguistic diversity, but also a wealth of orthographic diversity, unique writing scripts, and typographic conventions not found anywhere else in the world.
[...]

MARCH 21, 2025
2:30 to 4pm CET (Paris time)
Online, in English
20€

More info and tickets at https://wordsoftype.com/

At tribal colleges, scholarships funded by a USDA grant have been suspended amid the Trump administration’s widespread cost-cutting.

Now some students are facing their final weeks on campus.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tribal-colleges-usda-scholarships-suspended?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Resisting US imperialism in Hawaii, debunking colonial propaganda, making anti-capitalist #dystopian games like Neofeud 2! #indigenous perspectives! #indiedev #indiegame :) https://twitch.tv/silverspook

Mapuche community evicted in Bariloche, Argentina, to favor a forestry entrepreneur.

Last December 10, Javier Milei repealed the Indigenous Territorial Emergency Law, thus giving a free hand to the evictions of native communities and paving the way for the banishment, especially of the Mapuche people and especially in Patagonia.
#Indigenous #Mapuche #Argentina #Patagonia #LandBack
https://lavaca.org/notas/continua-el-destierro-mapuche-desalojan-a-otra-comunidad-para-favorecer-a-un-empresario-forestal/

Resisting US imperialism in Hawaii, debunking colonial propaganda, making anti-capitalist #dystopian games like Neofeud 2! #indigenous perspectives! #indiedev #indiegame :) https://twitch.tv/silverspook

The autonomous Nahua community of Ostula, Michoacán, repelled a surprise attack yesterday by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), who attacked the area of La Cofradía with exploding drones and gunfire. At the moment, there are no reports of injuries.

https://enterese.com.mx/atacaron-con-drones-y-disparos-a-la-cofradia-de-ostula/

Neofeud 2 voice casting, Silver Spook hui / cooperative updates, Q&A with me, #indigenous Hawaiian perspectives, and more! https://youtube.com/live/xlulzqeClZY?feature=share

Capitalise 'Indigenous' please. Kia Ora. #Indigenous

How Capitalism Pillages the Planet and Creates Chaos – Patrick Bond Pt. 1/2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEosapAzqwY

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Tim Wise:

This is how you deal with racists...Watch a grad level class

https://x.com/timjacobwise/status/1897449168588706044/photo/1

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#ThrowbackThursday
4 years ago, I first met this gentle giant.
It's one of the only older Western red #cedar #trees left at #W̱MÍYEŦEN #NatureSanctuary. Most of the land had been logged more than once before it was acquired for conservation & rewilding. This is a 2nd growth cedar & it is over 150 yrs old.

The W̱MÍYEŦEN #Nature Sanctuary is a 42 acre protected forest and riparian area ​that supports biodiversity while preserving ecosystems and wildlife habitat. The tranquil natural environment, inspires an awareness of nature as teacher and essential ally.

https://wmiyetennaturesanctuary.com/

I'm a member of this local, biodiverse nature sanctuary. They mainly rely on memberships & public donations. They work with #Indigenous leaders/educators/naturalists from #Wsanec First Nations. The name was changed from the former Mary Lake Sanctuary to W̱MÍYEŦEN Nature Sanctuary to respect that the property is on native lands.