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Question for the #indigenous people here:
I'm sitting with a lot of heavy and beautiful stories from a year on a northern remote reserve, especially stories from an elder who went through the really bad times. (We had a 30 min chat almost every weekday).

I feel like these stories aren't mine to retell. Not interested in self-promotion, looking for advice on what I should do in the spirit of truth and reconciliation.

On the occasion of the death of world famous #Neolithic #archaeologist and Tory peer #ColinRenfrew we have a few things to say.

Looking down at us from the #Cambridge high table, he made some severe misjudgements. His #sapientparadox was an attempt to argue that while #Homosapiens bodies evolved in #Africa, somehow we didn't get smart till we hit #Europe.

Also highly questionable was his attitude to the #cognition of #huntergatherers who, so he said, 'lacked fully developed mind'. According to him, they needed to borrow language from farmers.

We had some big political and social institutional differences with Renfrew. Our own Chris Knight goes through the whole context in a review below

#archaeology #Renfrew #racism #Indigenous #Palaeolithic #humanorigins

JRAI 2002, 8: 807-8
A devastating review by Chris Knight of the Runciman collection 'The Origin of Human Social Institutions'

555 #ClimateCrisis #PriviledgedHelp #AmitavGhosh #Indigenous

Horrible story of Dutch colonialism. It's about extractivism [take with gun and run] 'the resource curse'.
On COP29: "The West isn't preparing for climate change; only they not preparing by mitigating emissions the way in which they're preparing is they're preparing for war"

"About crisis of acceleration | Amitav Ghosh | Buitenhof" [15:11 min]
by Buitenhof [Eng spoken] [Dutch subs]

youtube.com/watch?v=KgfyMnqCdM

Quote by B:
"Nov 24, 2024
The work of writer and essayist Amitav Ghosh often deals with colonialism and capitalism with a particular focus on climate and, in a broader sense, “planetary crisis.
This year, one of Europe's most important cultural prizes, the prestigious Erasmus Prize, has been awarded to the Indian writer. He receives the prize for his inspired contributions to the theme of “the imagination of the unthinkable. I
On the speaker: -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitav_Ghosh <-

#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#ClimateBreakDown

Join us in sharing #WhereOliveTreesWeep with the wider community

Share the Website: WhereOliveTreesWeep.com

- Watch the film and share with your community. You can use the simple buttons above, the share button on the trailer, or the images and the suggested messaging on this page.
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How to do more

- Screen the film in your community, and utilize the Discussion Guide we offer with each screening.

- Visit the call for action and the extended list of resources (link below).

Sharing on Social Media: Draft Messaging:

"The newly released documentary Where Olive Trees Weep is a beautiful, poignant, heartbreaking film about the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice. It also features Dr. Gabor Maté as he offers trauma-healing work to a group of Palestinian women tortured in Israeli prisons."

Source:
whereolivetreesweep.com/share/

Resources:
whereolivetreesweep.com/resour

If you use hashtags, here are some we recommend:

Where Olive Trees WeepHome - Where Olive Trees WeepDiscover poignant stories from the occupied West Bank, shedding light on intergenerational pain and resilience. Watch the trailer!

New paper with Ian Keay shows that taller Indigenous men in 19th century British Columbia were more likely to be incarcerated. This tendency, which strengthened over 1864-1913, is surprising b/c most historical studies find that shorter men were more likely to be imprisoned.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #britishcolumbia #indigenous #prisons

As California's first Atmospheric River of the season dies out, I thought folks might like to read my article: "Worse Than the Big One," about the Great Flood of 1862, caused by nonstop Atmospheric Rivers lasting more than 40 days straight.

It was the worst natural disaster to hit the west in the last 160 years, inundating much of the land, from Oregon to San Diego. The agriculturally rich Central Valley became a vast inland sea, 300 miles long and 20 miles wide. The state capital in Sacramento was under water for six months, forcing the government to relocate to San Francisco. 33% of California’s state property was destroyed, along with one in every eight private homes. Thousands of people died, possibly up to 1% of California’s entire population. And while floods of this magnitude used to happen every 200 years or so, models generated by Daniel Swain and researchers at UCLA’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences found that they will now happen roughly every 65 years, due to the effects of climate change. Swain also predicts a 20% increase in the intensity of megastorms, meaning the next one could be far more devastating.

The event also influenced the course of wars. In New Mexico Territory, for example, the flooded Rio Grande impeded the California Column as it attempted to cut off the retreating Confederate Army of New Mexico, allowing them to escape into Texas. And in California’s Owens Valley, it brought the Paiutes, who were on the brink of starvation because the storms had decimated the wild game they relied on, into conflict with ranchers, who were trespassing on their lands to graze their herds. Over 200 Native Americans died in the Owens Valley Indian War (1862-1867), along with roughly 60 members of the California Militia.

Even without the effects of climate change, the consequences of a megaflood today are much more serious than they were in 1862, when California had only 500,000 residents. Today there are hundreds of communities and large cities just in the vulnerable Central Valley, with a combined population of 6.5 million people. The Sacramento area, alone, is home to more than one million people, while Fresno has over 500,000 people, and Bakersfield has nearly 400,000 residents. The Central Valley includes the flood plains of two major rivers, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin, as well as many smaller rivers that drain down from the Sierra Nevada mountains.

This is not just a problem for Californians, either. Another flood like the one in 1862 would have a dire effect on the availability and cost of food for everyone in the U.S. The Central Valley comprises less than 1% of all U.S. farmland, yet it produces 25% of the nation’s food supply, including 90% of the broccoli, carrots, garlic, celery, grapes, tangerines, and plums, as well as 40% of the lettuce, cabbage, oranges, peaches and peppers, and over 20% of the milk. That is $46 billion worth of food annually, double the next most agriculturally productive state in the U.S.

A megaflood would also be an ecological nightmare. There are still lots of cows in California, nearly 4 million, to be precise. A massive flood would severely pollute the soil and groundwater with rotting carcasses, highly pathogenic H5N1 birdflu, and concentrated manure. Then there are all the other toxins in the region, like fertilizers and pesticides. In Kern County, alone, farmers use 30 million pounds of pesticides per year, while California, as a whole, uses over 200 million pounds of pesticides. Kern County is also one of the nation’s most prolific oil-producing regions, generating 70% of California’s oil and more than double what the state of Louisiana produces. It also has two large refineries. A major flood would pull much of these toxins into the soil and ground water and quickly spread them throughout the flooded regions, creating by far the biggest Superfund clean-up site in the nation’s history.

You can read the full article here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2023/01/

[Thread] #Indigenous #SpiritualWalk in #Utah #Protests Last Conventional #UraniumMill

By Alex Binder, Unicorn Riot November 1, 2024

#WhiteMesa, #Utah — "The #WhiteMesaMill was built in 1979 with plans to process #uranium ore for 15 years. With the facility now well past its initial operational lifespan, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, other Indigenous tribes and allies continue their call for it to be shut down and cleaned up. On October 12, over 75 people participated in an annual spiritual walk in opposition to the mill, which is the last conventional uranium processing plant in operation in the United States.

"Participants met at the White Mesa Community Center in southern Utah at 11 a.m., then walked five miles north on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 191 to rally outside the mill. Throughout the hours-long walk, Unicorn Riot spoke with attendees about their opposition to the 45-year-old mill owned by Energy Fuels Inc."

Thread contains links to the four videos...

unicornriot.ninja/2024/indigen

UNICORN RIOT · Indigenous Spiritual Walk in Utah Protests Last Conventional Uranium Mill - UNICORN RIOTThe White Mesa Mill is in its 45th year of processing uranium, and the Indigenous communities residing nearby are still opposed to it.