Cornelia Cassady Davis (1870-1920, US-American)
Portrait of Indian Chief in Headdress
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Native American Heritage Day
Native American Heritage Day is a civil holiday observed on the day after Thanksgiving in the United States.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_Heritage_Day
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Emily Carr - Zunoqua of the Cat Village
Gemälde, Öl auf Leinwand, 112 x 71 cm,
1931, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Dzunukwa or Zunoqua:
She is the wild »woman of the woods«, a thief of children but capable of bringing wealth to the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples. Carr wrote that she found these figures terrifying in their expression of power and domination. Scattered among the swirling vegetation here are many cats, which appear equally menacing.
As Carr returned to visit villages in the Haida Gwaii which she had last seen in about 1912, she noticed the changes which had taken place: the suppression of the potlatch system, and the clear-cutting of the forest. This comes through in these later paintings of the First Nations cultures, in a sense of mourning for the disappearing people, a pervasive grieving for what was rapidly being lost.
Totems and trees
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Leonard Peltier seriously ill....
...therefore telephonically demands his immediate transfer to a hospital outside the prison. We will keep you informed. Don't let Leonard die in prison.
Wichtiger als Weihnachten: Wie Thanksgiving entstand | DW | 24.11.2022
1620 kamen die Pilgerväter in die heutigen USA und überlebten nur dank der Wampanoag-Ureinwohner. Daraus erwuchs Thanksgiving - aber erst 200 Jahre später.#Thanksgiving #Pilger #BlackFriday #Brauchtum #USA #AbrahamLincoln #Truthahn #JoeBiden #FirstNations #Wampanoag #GeorgeBush
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Refugia
Our documentary series, Refugia, is available to stream worldwide via Waterbear https://join.waterbear.com/. Through a positive lens, Refugia’s founder, Liana Cornell, activates her inescapable urge to do more, and gains a deeper understanding of the current crises in nature, and the people devoted to preventing them.
From the perspective of the five elements present in every living thing – earth, air, fire, water, spirit – Refugia reveals the good work undertaken by unsung, everyday heroes. We also celebrate communities and companies dedicated to nurturing nature, and preserving these pockets of protection.
Cinematically stunning, bold, personal and evocative, Refugia illuminates their rewarding stories, and inspires us to realise that we are the solution. When we react with action, we unite in a compassionate, global collective, creating continuing, constructive change.
To do so is in our nature… and our nature is in us.
Refugia would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we live and work. We would also like to pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
#Refugia #documentary #film #series #nature #people #aboriginal #Indigenous #Peoples #species #survival #collective #solutions #elders #firstnations #earthprotectors #LianaCornell #RefugiaPtyLtd #docu-films
● NEWS ● #CommonDreams ☞ #FirstNations Land Defenders File Submission to #UN Human Rights Council https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/07/first-nations-land-defenders-file-submission-un-human-rights-council
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Leonard Peltier Pleads For Help Amid Constant COVID Lockdowns In Prison
The Native American rights activist, now 77 and ailing, says "fear and stress" from unbearable periods of isolation is breaking him and others:
"COVID has turned Coleman Prison back to the Dark Ages. I remember a time at Marion USP when I was put in solitary for so long, when 72 hours could make you start to forget who you were. I once wrote down who I was on the concrete floor under my bed, so if I forgot, I could read it back to myself. I traded my last cigarette for a pencil. I’d rush to the door when a guard left the meager plate of food, just to see a glimpse of another human being — even if it was one that hated me, it was another human and good for my mind for a minute.
I’m in hell, and there is no way to deal with it but to take it as long as you can. I cling to the belief that people are out there doing what they can to change our circumstances in here. The fear and stress are taking a toll on everyone, including the staff. You can see it in their faces and hear it in their voices. The whole institution is on total LOCKDOWN.
In and out of lockdown last year at least meant a shower every third day, a meal beyond a sandwich wet with a little peanut butter — but now with COVID for an excuse, nothing. No phone, no window, no fresh air — no humans to gather — no love ones voice. No relief. Left alone and without attention is like a torture chamber for the sick and old.
Where are our human rights activists? You are hearing from me, and with me, many desperate men and women! They are turning an already harsh environment into an asylum, and for many who did not receive a death penalty, we are now staring down the face of one! Help me, my brothers and sisters, help me my good friends."
- Leonard Peltier, Coleman Prison, 22|01|23 @ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/leonard-peltier-prison-covid_n_61eb2a5be4b03216750ab8ea
Informations in german: https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/420091.indigene-bewegung-in-den-usa-der-druck-w%C3%A4chst.html
Before They Fall
Conservation groups, First Nations, and scientists come together in this timely, upcoming short film, as a decades-long battle to protect endangered old-growth forests in BC escalates at Fairy Creek (the last unprotected, intact valley on southern Vancouver Island).
The film explores the characters’ individual relationships with ancient forests, and why it’s imperative we collectively protect them. It touches on potential solutions, like a transition away from old-growth in the future of logging, and Indigenous sovereignty.
#BeforeTheyFall #documentary #film #nature #environment #trees #old-growth #forests #protection #preservation #conservation #activism #grassroots #movement #FairyCreek #FirstNations #Indigenous #sovereignty #CamMacArthur #ecologyst #ecologystfilms #docu-films
Minister for Indigenous Australians, Ken Wyatt, said the study would follow up on an alarming statistic made in the 2018 report - 80% of souvenirs sold in #Australia purporting to represent #FirstNations cultures are in fact imitation products.
https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2021/08/05/indigenous-artists-welcome-major-inquiry-fakes-and-forgery
