LANDBACK!
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In Michigan, 3 tribes are on a mission to bring back a fish that disappeared 100 years ago
absolutely. people and animals should be able to move freely. so much energy is wasted maintaining unjust hierarchies.
Land back and no borders
absolutely. i believe in landback because it's the just thing to do and because i believe it's our best answer to the climate crisis. indigenous land in indigenous hands will beat climate pledges and green new deals every time.
Great article thank you for sharing, my response to a general cynicism here about "having gone to far" with honoring the rights of Indigenous peoples and the trying to rectify the wrongs done unto them that span generations in their impact even as they still have not been fully stopped... not by a long mile... my response is there is abundant evidence that empowering Indigenous people and entities to have meaningful control over landscapes is a NECESSARY part of fighting Climate Change. The numbers don't lie, just look at the evidence, we don't have time to start hemming and hawing about whether we have maybe theoretically elevated Indigenous peoples "too much" even if we have, worst comes to worst the consequence is that Canada and the world act faster and more lucidly to protect our wealth of people, natural resources and landscapes we were lucky enough to inherit and share.
https://www.wri.org/insights/4-ways-indigenous-and-community-lands-can-reduce-emissions
https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/climatechange/indigenous-land-rights-critical-pillar-climate-action
https://climate.org/report/reducing-carbon-emissions-through-indigenous-land-titles/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550830724001496
But trying to help any specific demographic over others never really works.
I don't think you can say that with confidence, maybe it isn't the best strategy in favor of more collective calls to action, but people need help NOW and if targeted policies are able to alleviate that best at a policy level than can we really say that categorically these types of solutions aren't tactically necessary in practice?
Well yeah...
It's going to trickle up from America.
In Canada their called First Nations and people acknoythey were there first
In America we call them Hispanics and pretend they're invading. But obvious every American who hates Hispanics, it isn't because of trace amounts of Spanish heritage. It's the Native American heritage they don't like. Seeing them reminds them that white people weren't here first, and if anyone is an invader, it's them.
But trying to help any specific demographic over others never really works. The real solution is getting everyone, no matter who they are, to the point they have "enough".
Then you make up for prior transgressions. And suddenly a lot more people agree that it's the right thing to do and there's no pushback because everyone has enough.
Basic Maslow pyramid shit.
Wait are horses just kinky landpipes?
Pipefish are cool. Like little straight seahorses
yeah this is definately make or break. we can't have another two years of this. we need a slam dunk impeach level of wins.
What can we do to help?
On July 13, 2026, the Trump Administration announcedthat it would be cutting a cumulative 3.23 million acres from Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monument, reducing the former to a mere 181,500 acres and the latter to approximately 121,000 acres. Under the umbrella of"common sense land use," which aims to prioritize the resources on or beneath the land, over its cultural or natural significance, the White House wants to open these sacred sites to massive logging, mining, and of course, the crème de la crème of U.S. Imperialism...oil and gas leasing.
Absolutely terrible. I hate to act like an electoralist but mobilisation for the upcoming midterms is of utmost importance. The number of progressive wins in primaries is quite a cool thing. But it evaporates away if the GE isn’t won.
Sadly, the fuckers made that illegal.
British Museum next
Bonus points you get DAS basically for free too!
Ownership remains the key advantage. Unlike earlier telecom providers that leased infrastructure or delivered service wirelessly, WJBTN owns the backbone fiber, the right-of-way, and the poles carrying the network. That makes it far harder for outside telecom companies to displace the service...
Fundamentally, it’s about sovereignty. By controlling the infrastructure that carries internet traffic, the communities can govern and maintain the network according to their own priorities rather than the financial goals of distant providers.
This is huge, what an incredible advantage to hold in a tech world that's so consistently enshittifying. I'm so stoked for them.
Then, in a turn of events that rocked the communities, lead engineer Dirk MacLeod had a heart attack and died in July 2019. “My chest was ripped open,” Nakogee says. The grieving company shut down for the summer.
After MacLeod’s death, one line worker quietly took it upon himself to finish extending fiber to distribution points in Fort Albany
Their resilience in the wake of this is outstanding too. A passion-project like this might have easily gone to the vultures, if not for the way northern communities rally.
You put it so beautifully into words I'm inspired to go for yet another paddle today.
We aren't talking about figuring out how to roll a boulder down a hill here either, hydrodynamics and the complex set of variables that go into making a canoe work well in dynamic situations while not being a wobbly, stressful precursor to a swim are not only extremely complex there are no obvious ways to maximize one variable while not sacrificing others, so the process of iterating, adjusting and building has no easy answers for the designer of a canoe.
Heck, 99% of people I talk to, including on the water while paddling by them, are completely clueless about the basic property of the hullspeed of a boat being determined by the ratio of length to width....
It is astounding how modern older canoes and kayaks look when you think about that, they truly are manifestations of an immense amount of genius applied over generations to the point that now that we have computers, digital modelling, mathematical understanding of turbulence and fluid dynamics, composite materials that can be molded into virtually any shape and the ability to predict and locate optimum hull designs without trying every single one..... we basically have just looked at what indigenous people did and said "yup, checks out lets keep doing exactly that".
usual ad nauseam
white ‘scientists’ kept telling Hawaiians their ancestors had dumbly floated the pacific
It's a beautiful craft.
I noticed the same, too, since I have two kayaks. Seeing old skin-on-frame kayaks in museums, the designs haven't changed much. Even the builders I worked with relied on rules and ratios passed down through generations. They mock up their designs on computers now, but the technology is the same.
Canoes are advanced forms of culture as well as technology, I suppose I am biased saying that because I have two Wenonahs, but it is true look at a brand new top of the line river going "prospector" style canoe and it has the same form lines of the oldest surviving birch bark canoes.
The obsession in north america among european descendents of fetishizing the tools and ways of life of indigenous people in their "simplicity" and reliance on nature completely clouds peoples' vision to see what canoes really are, keystone points of cultural connection that encode a set of sophisticated and extremely hydrodynamically optimized designs i.e. advanced technology.
I spent a summer building and restoring racing canoes with indigenous people from the west coast. Some of the older folks shared stories about how for a while it was illegal for groups of unrelated indigenous folks to congregate, with two exceptions being canoe building and races. Those big canoes became a new centrepoint to the culture.
took them long enough
Don’t worry, they’ll send their best man, Jared Kushner… /s
Sustained. Carry on
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