https://www.iwgia.org/en/colombia/4984-eliel-castillo-we-have-never-depended-on-anyone-outside-our-culture.html

This December the IWGIA is hosting regional seminars on Indigenous autonomy and justice. Elial Castillo (Wayúu) describes principles of justice that diverge with Colómbia's #development and #modernization focus through #windfarms . #scienceTechnologySociety #indigenousjustice #NativeScience #questioncapitalism #indigenousrights

Cherokees have a rich cultural understanding of a #SolarEclipse. Historically, Cherokees refer to Nvdo tsulisihvsgiyi (The time when the sun/moon get dark). They also know an eclipse as Nvdo walosi ugisgo (Sun/Moon, the frog eats it).

In the 1730s, the Irish trader James Adair referred to Cherokee responses to eclipses in condensing terms, writing that they acted “like lunatics.”

Adair was wrong. Cherokees understood eclipses as part of an interconnected universe. #NativeScience #histodons