Another fantastic story. About whaling by multiple First Nations on Vancouver Island. And if you've ever been to the American Natural History Museum, you might have seen the “Whalers Washing House" which was a sacred shrine with dozens of tall human forms made of wood (Picture in the article). They were taken from the Mowachaht/Muchahlaht in Yuquot in 1904.

Here's hoping one day they are returned.

#Whaling #FirstNations #Colonialism #Racism #Reconciliation #Decolonization #VancouverIsland #History
https://www.hashilthsa.com/news/2023-09-06/lasting-legacy-nuu-chah-nulth-whaling

After a summer with multiple off-the-charts temperature records and numerous fatal extreme weather events all over the world, a discussion on #degrowth and #decolonization is more relevant than ever.

Tune in to the next online seminar organized by the UCPH Degrowth Network - Tuesday Sep 19th, at 2 PM CEST.

Dr. Brototi Roy (Central European University) will talk about "The Future of Degrowth: Decolonizing more than the imaginary"

#degrowth #postgrowth #AlternativeEconomics #capitalism #Decolonisation #Decolonization #Ecology #SocialJustice #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis

Recommended: quick read for a little overview on #decolonization around the concept of charity. Especially in light of the devastating #wildfires across Turtle Island this summer! Don't stop supporting groups providing aid, but I encourage you to consider the ideas emphasized in this blog post from #IndigenousClimateAction as well on how we can expand our definition and allow for a healthier and more inclusive mindset.
https://www.indigenousclimateaction.com/entries/reimagining-and-decolonizing-charity

They have also provided a list of organizations you can donate to! PLEASE DO IF YOU CAN 🙏💕💕👍🌿
https://www.indigenousclimateaction.com/entries/wildfire-mutual-aid

“For many Native Hawaiians, the ruins of Lahaina are a harbinger of what’s to come if Hawaiʻi continues to follow the capitalist system under US occupation.”
It is encouraging to see calls for #decolonization from within the US #Empire. Nationalism can be a tricky beast, & I hope Hawaiians navigate it better than others undergoing the same process.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/07/native-hawaiian-sovereignty-maui-wildfires

Much rumors about India's imminent name change. Why is India planning to change its name, creating a rift between geography and politics?
For the lovers of language and culture, for those enamored with matters Indian, for the students reading Sanskrit and Pali with me, ..., this small note on sense and nonsense of dropping India in favor of Bhārat.

#india #namechange #sanskrit #rigveda #language #nationalism #politics #decolonization

https://medium.com/@francis-laleman/why-is-india-letting-go-of-its-oldest-geographical-name-1c5d88439729

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Notice: I am NOT suggesting non-Indigenous, non-BIPOC people post with most of these hashtags. Follow, ally, educate yourself, etc. but don’t appropriate is always good advice for allies.

Using and following hashtags are a critical part of the Fediverse experience. This is a list of the hashtags I recommend all Indigenous people use and follow.

https://turtleisland.blog/indigenous-fediverse-hashtags/

#AfroIndigenous
#BIPOC
#BlackMastodon
#ChangeTheName
#Decolonization
#Decolonize
#DefendTheSacred
#FirstNations

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Feeling bummed-out about the world? There is hope. Here is some positive news for a change.
#cdnpoli #socialism #anarchism #communism #democraticsocialism #decolonization
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2GhdyxW2as4&si=kSSG8JSI4UiFAuRR

@lps

Russia's totally unprovoked genocidal invasion of #Ukraine has included deliberate attacks on housing, schools, and hospitals, massacres of thousands of civilians, destruction of civilian energy infrastructure, rape, torture, and kidnapping 100K children who were shipped to Russia.

#CornelWest's support for Putin's genocide disqualifies him from serious political discussion.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/03/war-crimes-indiscriminate-attacks-infrastructure-systematic-and-widespread

#USPOL #imperialism #antiwar #BRICS #RBN #RevolutionaryBlackoutNetwork #Decolonization

#AmericanIndianAirwaves 8.31.2023

Pt 1 The Living Histories of #Lahaina

"Through the settler colonial history of what is called Lahaina, the #KānakaMaoli are resilient in survivance and now more than ever are organized in working to ensure that #decolonization and healing takes place as part of the recovery from the #LahainaFire."

Guest: #KepāMaly, Cultural Ethnographer

https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/the-living-histories-of-lahaina-and-cannabis-from-gold-rush-to-green-rush

#Maui #MauiFires #LahainaFires #Hawaii #NativeHawaiians #Indigenous #SettlerColonialism

The author conflates decolonialization with establishing racial equity, and then conflates racial equity in the mathematics classroom with teaching students that everyone, not just "dead white men," are able to do mathematics. She attributes the lack of diversity in mathematics to flawed teaching methods which perpetuate the false idea that success in math is due to talent rather than hard work. This, she says, teaches women and non-white people that math isn't for them.

This is certainly correct as far as it goes, but she doesn't go nearly far enough. The solution she offers, and remember that this is supposedly a way to decolonialize mathematics, is to somehow teach all students that math is for them also, that they're capable of learning math if they only study hard enough. Her conclusion is worth quoting at length:

"To transform mathematics teaching and learning in ways that empower students, universities need to give students the theoretical grounding they need to access the subject and support them to identify with it –- to want to learn it, to become the mathematicians of the future, to enjoy and critique mathematics and its applications."

And she may well be right that if math teachers could come to believe this and to teach as if it were true, which it is, then university mathematics might become much, much more diverse. But that's not decolonialization, which means the elimination of colonialism's effects, both cultural and social.

The very idea that everyone ought to learn mathematics, that anyone *needs* to learn mathematics, is an artifact of colonialism. Mathematics is interesting, fascinating, whatever, just like every other area of human knowledge, but it's treated very, very differently, as if it were essential to every human life. The reason it seems different, much more important than subjects universally understood to be electives, e.g. phenomenology or raku methods in ceramics, both of which are also taught in universities, is because colonial powers, among whom I include the contemporary U.S., require (a) techocrats to run their ongoing project of exploitation and (b) a lot of people who've failed to learn math and thereby have learned quite well that they don't have standing or knowledge to challenge the decrees of the technocrats.

Nobody thinks that everybody should learn to appreciate the subtle beauty of raku theory or the ins and outs of phenomenology, only that they should have the opportunity to do so if they want. The universal study of subjects like these isn't important to the colonial project. We can begin to decolonialize mathematics by teaching ourselves to see it as nothing more than a special interest, no more important from the point of view of the curriculum than any other obscure elective subject. Anyone who doesn't interrogate the assumption that everyone needs to, or ought to, or would be better off learning mathematics isn't talking about decolonializing anything, they're talking about accommodating students to the needs of colonialists.

#Math #Mathematics #Decolonial #Decolonization #MathematicsEducation

https://theconversation.com/yes-mathematics-can-be-decolonised-heres-how-to-begin-65963

The fourth instance of our online Degrowth seminar series is coming up, on September 19th, 2 PM-3 PM CEST

“The future of degrowth: Decolonizing more than the imaginary” by Dr. Brototi Roy (Central European University, Vienna)

In recent years, degrowth has sparked multiple discussions, analyses and actions on repoliticizing the debate for socio-ecological justice and equity. Since the beginning of the movement as an activist slogan, there have been calls for decolonizing the imaginary. In this talk, Dr. Roy will engage with the idea of how can this decolonization be more material.

The talk will take place on Zoom, registration here: https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5wqdeuoqT0rGdCZTcmIc4MqrJNuC7eJLrFe
It will be followed by 30 min of informal discussion for those interested.

#Degrowth #Postgrowth #Decolonisation #Decolonization #Colonialism #Postcolonialism #Decroissance #ClimateJustice #SocialJustice #socioecological #ClimateCrisis #Equity #Activism

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TVLSE, Oklahoma – Natives lined up to see Sten Joddi perform at the Venue Shrine in Tulsa. His set list included DJ Lonewolf, Frank Anthony, KickdHopeless, WOTKO, and Frisco featuring HV and MadMatt.

https://www.mvskokemedia.com/natives-run-the-night-at-the-venue-shrine/

#Mvskoke #MuscogeeNation #Decolonization #LandBack #InstanceBack #Native #Indigenous #NDN #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon #FourteenNinetyOne #TurtleIsland #TurtleIslandSocial #TurtleIslandArt #TurtleIslandBlog

Some great sources of Mvskoke history

https://turtleisland.blog/mvskoke-history-resources/

#TrailOfTears #Mvskoke #MuscogeeNation #Decolonization #LandBack #InstanceBack #Native #Indigenous #NDN #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon #FourteenNinetyOne #TurtleIsland #TurtleIslandSocial #TurtleIslandArt #TurtleIslandBlog

Please boost!
Do me a favor, if you have found any value to Settler Colonial Introduction, send the author Lara Jacobs $5 or whatever and tell her you liked it.

https://Venmo.com/ecohugger

AND IMPORTANTLY:
Ask her to join TurtleIsland.social where you saw her work.

Mvto!

--->>> https://turtleisland.blog/settler-colonialism-introduction

#Decolonization #LandBack #InstanceBack #Native #Indigenous #NDN #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon #FourteenNinetyOne #TurtleIsland #TurtleIslandSocial #TurtleIslandBlog

BBC News - Gladstone family urged to pay slavery reparations to Jamaica
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-66606975

#slaveryreparations #decolonization #notFarEnough

I love a good andrewism video, and ive been saving this one for a while:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQm1EEW79RI

As a white man who has suffered about 10 oppressive words in his life; When i see #indigenous joy i instinctively want to take it for myself, to wrap myself in its authenticity and forgivness.
However, as a tradition barer of the song, language, and seanachas of this island I have to reconcile the knife-edge intersection between this appropriative white supremacy and native Irish #decolonization
(and as an Ulsterman descended in the large part from planter stock i have other bonus baggage aswell!)

So this video is a rollercoaster as the white settler with dreadlocks in my head desperatly leaps at any break in the clouds which authenticates my desired position as indiginous, while, my accomplice-spirit fights them off 'this is not for you, you owe energy to these concepts, you must not be a beneficiary of them'

Toward the end Andrewism discusses, brielfly the concept of 'Naturalization' which provides a structured conduit for me to 'give my strength to the land' without strying close to appropriation.

Of cource, even then the lynchpin is community and family, so i remain, excluded; A hermit, a rewilding hobbyist.

I love a good andrewism video, and ive been saving this one for a while:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQm1EEW79RI

As a white man who has suffered about 10 oppressive words in his life; When i see #indigenous joy i instinctively want to take it for myself, to wrap myself in its authenticity and forgivness.
However, as a tradition barer of the song, language, and seanachas of this island I have to reconcile the knife-edge intersection between this appreciative white supremacy and native Irish #decolonization
(and as an Ulsterman descended in the large part from planter stock i have other bonus baggage aswell!)

So this video is a rollercoaster as the white settler with dreadlocks in my head desperatly leaps at any break in the clouds which authenticates my desired position as indiginous, while, my accomplice-spirit fights them off 'this is not for you, you owe energy to these concepts, you must not be a beneficiary of them'

Toward the end Andrewism discusses, brielfly the concept of 'Naturalization' which provides a structured conduit for me to 'give my strength to the land' without strying close to appropriation.

Of cource, even then the lynchpin is community and family, so i remain, excluded; A hermit, a rewilding hobbyist.

a great resource, a must read for settlers on Turtle Island.
#landBack #landBackIsNotAMetaphor #decolonize #decolonization

https://fpse.ca/decolonization-manual

COLONISTS OUT OF CENTRAL ASIA! Fuck Russia. Fuck it's failed Soviet legacy.

Perspectives: “We have common traumas, but no common memory”
#Decolonization activism is on the rise in what #Russia considers its traditional backyard
https://eurasianet.org/perspectives-we-have-common-traumas-but-no-common-memory

BBC News - 'You're kind of raised to hate tourists': Maui fires fan tensions on Hawaiian island
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66507019

#decolonization