#Indigenous Community

[ravensvalley]

#SpringTime

Even with months and dates, it's never easy to know exacly when Seasons change. Like Spring which officially this year is supposed to be (around here) the 19th of Mars. But Native people from the mountainous parts of the Northern Hemisphere, can have a hint observing animals… like this little Red Squirrel (AKA our Groundhog) when emerging from the snow, who can easily certify that Spring is at our doors.

Two years ago it was on February 18th… 2022. And this year, February 12th, 2024. So yeah, Spring is just around the corner guys.

[cognitivejustice]

In Santa Marta, a small village in Panama’s Ngäbe-Buglé Indigenous region, aging shamans are seeking to preserve and pass down knowledge of traditional medicinal plants.

Village members say knowledge of how to identify and use local sacred medicinal plants has assisted the community to treat illnesses and viruses, such as COVID-19.

Fearing this ancestral knowledge will be lost, Santa Marta’s shamans made a book with photos, names and information about the curative properties of local plants.

In 2022, researchers from the Technological University of Panama published an ethnobotanical study on the species of Santa Marta’s traditional medicine plants in an effort to safeguard this sacred knowledge.

Santa Marta’s shamans authored and printed a booklet that provides information, photos, names and curative properties of local medicinal plants. Image by Adam D. Williams.

Santa Marta’s three traditional medicine doctors, Viviana Montero (left), Mauricio Martínez and Elicia Martínez, stand in front of the town health clinic Iho Kebery. Image by Adam D. Williams.

Residents of Santa Marta gather in Iho Kebery to give testimonials about how, at some point in their lives when dealing with an illness, it was traditional medicine that provided relief.

Villagers recount stories of how, thanks to traditional plants, they survived snakebites, stomach viruses, infections and bouts of diarrhea, which is one of the Ngäbe-Buglé’s leading causes of death.

[ithartheghost]

Return to sender Amazigh folk magic ritual.

[chloeworships]

Some of the members have been suspended and God is NOT happy about that either.

This message could also be for those of you who have indigenous ancestry. Speak up because closed mouths don’t get fed.

UPDATE:

I just saw an Israeli government official in the same parliament but he was sitting on the other side. My apologies for not knowing his name but I never forget a face. Interesting…

PS. God is also angry

🔥😡🔥

Whatever it is, please fix it ASAP before God does so forcefully.

SN/: Stay tuned for more very important updates about Iran 🇮🇷 and others from the LORD.

[risingsun-charities-org]

These attacks, often involving brutal killings, destruction of homes, and displacement, have left many communities in fear for their safety. As a non-profit organization in Newark, New Jersey, we are committed to shedding light on these injustices and advocating for the protection of these vulnerable groups. The silence surrounding these attacks only fuels the suffering of those caught in the crossfire.

[queercodedangel]

Sourced from "The Jakarta Method" by Vincent Bevins

[selfdiscoverymedia]

GV23-32. Peter Michael Johnson, author of WHITE CLOUD FREE.

Our Global Veterans Stories with Sara Troy and her guest Peter Michael Johnson, on air from August 8th Set mostly in Latin America, it’s a semi-autobiographical tale of an idealistic, naïve Peace Corps volunteer who suffers a series of traumas abroad, leading to unlikely friendships. At 23, Peter has enlisted in the Peace Corps and finds himself teaching beekeeping in a tiny village in Paraguay.…

[gabyyandreitaa]

Community Center "K'AMALB'E PROJECT".

The objective of the K'amalb'e Project is to provide access to secondary education to young people from indigenous and rural communities in the Huahuatenango area, where there are no schools nearby that they can attend from their homes. Let's learn a little more about this interesting project!

What does the K'amalb'e community project offer young indigenous students?

The project offers the young people a home in the municipality of Malacatancito, with a full scholarship, where they live, eat, dress, study, and have all the services that a home can provide for their stay and obtain the formal education offered by the official community education center.

A little history of the beginnings of this amazing community center!

Since 2013, Acción Verapaz has been supporting this project. With the help of Q. 1,100 of private donations from Acción Verapaz members, school supplies for the beginning of the new school year, food and fuel for the month of January and the rent for the house for the same month have been purchased.

How about you? Do you want to join the community support to contribute and impact the future of many indigenous students in our country?!

Here is their contact information so you can start volunteering with the K'amalb'e project as soon as possible.

E-mail: akamalbe@gmail.com Telephone: (+502) 54583617 Location: Malacatancito, Huehuetenango. Guatemala.

[hatsunemikuismyspiritanimal]

As a person who is half-indigenous half-Salvadoran, and as a closeted bisexual, I am royally fucked. And so is this country under this fucking clown.

These guys are modern Nazis.

I'm scared, man. I'm really fucking scared.

The ICE raids have extended to the Indigenous people in the Navajo nation, people who have been here longer than anyone. Yet, they are called immigrants.

Listen here, you orange son of a bitch. You are nothing but a fucking hypocrite. Look at your mother, your wife ffs THEY ARE IMMIGRANTS. YOU ARE AN IMMIGRANT. ALMOST ALL THE PEOPLE YOU PUT IN CHARGE OF THIS COUNTRY ARE IMMIGRANTS. THE ONLY REASON YOU DON'T SEE IT THAT WAY IS BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL WHITE. You are fucking BLIND.

[ravensvalley]

@BenAdrienProulx October 19, 2024.

#WinnipegScenery

While visiting more friends on another road trip to Winnipeg… where the earth is flat and the roads are straight.

[shadow-bender]

Please pray and raise awareness for Cole Brings Plenty, a Lakota actor and student. He was found on april 5th. This is such an awful and cruel act of violence, im having a hard time finding the words.

April 8th Rising Hearts has organized Braids for Cole, so please wear your hair in braids and bring awareness so that Cole and his family can get justice.

*edited to correct information*

[doesephs]

the implications of fem kevin day are alive and kicking

[cognitivejustice]

Across Africa, many rural communities face a growing sanitation crisis. Wastewater treatment systems, where they exist, are often old, overloaded, or broken. In some towns, untreated sewage flows directly into rivers, contaminating water sources and harming both ecosystems and public health.

For decades, the global response to wastewater has been to clean the water in large wastewater facilities designed to remove physical, chemical and biological contaminants from domestic wastewater (toilets) or industrial effluent. Wastewater plants produce treated water that is safe to discharge into rivers.

But they’re expensive and energy intensive. They’re also difficult to maintain in rural areas where local government doesn’t get much revenue.

 a team of scientists led by environmental management researcher and professor Paul Oberholster, who set out to look for a much simpler and greener solution in a small town in South Africa’s Limpopo province. Our research found that algae – the same green organisms often dismissed as pond scum – could offer a low-cost, low-tech way to clean domestic sewage.

The team inserted tiny microalgae into the ponds at the Motetema Wastewater Treatment Works in Limpopo. The microalgae removed pathogens without using any chemicals or mechanical equipment that runs on electricity. They cleaned up the sewage from 1,560 homes.

This is a sustainable, low-cost approach to wastewater treatment that can improve public health and the environment in small towns, especially those with limited infrastructure and unreliable electricity. And it’s especially important to find ways of cleaning wastewater that don’t cost much or use electricity because climate change increases water stress and energy costs across the continent.

[luunaathh]

•The experiences of alterhumans of color get almost zero representation in the wider alterhuman community and that's really something that needs to change. This sounds like one of those pandering posts, though it really is not. My experience as an indigenous otherkind identifying individual is vastly different than the experiences of white alterhumans, due to my connection with my indigenous culture and because of my involvement in irl indigenous spaces, though documentation of experiences like mine are practically non-existent in the alterhuman community. Essays and discussions of non-white otherkin experiences often get no traction or are just buried between tons of other posts. This, coupled with the fact that mostly white spaces can sometimes be intimidating for people of color (myself included!) to talk about non-white experiences in, presents a serious problem. Being an ally to alterhumans of color often stops when it's personally inconvenient for someone, and that gets absolutely exhausting to deal with.

•Indigenous alterhumans are so fragmented across the alterhuman community, for example. There is almost nothing in indigenous otherkin tags, either because our experiences aren't seen or because ignorant people have forced us into silence. We don't have our own spaces, we don't get to discuss our experiences without a bodily white person in the community saying something like "I'm 1/10th cherokee, ya bro I feel you there". Even talking about discrimination we face can get us into an argument if we don't phrase ourself in a perfect way. Indigenous alterhumans being so fragmented across the alterhuman community is part of why I'm starting a digital powwow for indigenous alterhumans to share their experiences, though I don't want to be the only one sharing my experiences with being indigenous and otherkin. I really want this community to get to a point where indigenous alterhumans feel safe to talk about their experiences without fear of judgement or the fear of facing ignorance. I want to see panels about the experiences of alterhumans of color other than the ones I've hosted myself, our experiences are important to be heard in the community!

•In spite of being minorities in our own community and in spite of everything else though, I really do want to encourage my fellow alterhumans of color to share their unique experiences with the community. Our voices deserve to be heard and appreciated, even if we are so fragmented across the community. If you do face ignorance from anyone, try not to let it stop you from sharing your experiences and expressing yourself. I really want to see more essays from alterhumans of color, I want to see indigenous alterhuman experiences being brought into the spotlight, it's even important to discuss the challenges of feeling alone in a mostly white community. I mean hell, there's only one other indigenous maya person I know throughout the entire alterhuman community. Try not to let ignorance or fear discourage you from being your authentic self in this community. We shouldn't be suppressed nor fragmented in our own communities!

[wanderinguteruspress-blog]

Their name was Nex Benedict.

They were 16 years old and deserved to live for many more years.

I can’t stop thinking about them and how every adult in that school and state failed them.

How the hateful rhetoric and dog whistle bathroom bills pushed by far right religious extremists led to this tragedy.

3 older teen girls beat them so badly they died from their injuries. Nex was murdered by hate.

We have been warning that the legal targeting of the trans community recently was going to lead to tragedy like this. We have been screaming from the rooftops that the right wing isn’t protecting anyone. And here we are.

I will continue to do what I can in the off line space to make the world safer for my community.

But I will also not forget Nex Benedict. Say their name. Remember who they were and who they never got the chance to become.