The Healing Work of Returning Stolen Lands
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/a-new-social-justice/2021/11/15/return-stolen-lands-wiyot-tribe
It was the first time in the United States that a city government had ever given land back to its ancestral caretakers, and it was a profound testament to the power of the organizing, strength, and vision of Wiyot people.
#stolen #lands #landrights #ancestral #caretakers #Wiyot #tribe #yesmagazine
https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2021/12/02/rivers-right-to-flow
Indigenous communities and conservationists around the world are challenging the long-held view of water as a human commodity.
#nature #environment #watersheds #waterways #rivers #water #rights-of-nature #rights-for-nature #personhood #waterislife #conservation #preservation #protection #yesmagazine
https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2021/10/29/hearing-the-language-of-trees
What if you were a great teacher, a holder of knowledge and vessel of stories, but had no audible voice with which to speak? What if your listeners presumed you to be mute, save for the passive whispering of your needles? How would you bring your truth into the world? Wouldn’t you dance your story in branch and root? Wouldn’t you write it in the eloquence of cellulose? In the lasting archive of wood? Plants tell their stories not by what they say but by what they do. They tell their story in their bodies, in an alphabet once as familiar as the song of every bird, which we have also forgotten, as we became afflicted not only with plant blindness but plant deafness as well.
#nature #environment #tree #trees #RobinWallKimmerer #yesmagazine
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2021/03/04/culture-youth-uyghur
With the rights abuses have come myriad efforts to eradicate Uyghur culture. Authorities have burned books, bulldozed mosques, and banned so many aspects of traditional Uyghur life, including prayer and various dress and dietary customs. In the Chinese government’s own words, uncovered by a 2018 Agence France-Presse investigation, the camps’ purpose is to “break [Uyghurs’] lineage, break their roots, break their connections, and break their origins.” (Publicly, China claims these measures are necessary to prevent terrorism.)
#ethnic-cleansing #humanrights #Uyghur #Uyghurs #China #Xinjiang #yesmagazine
Tribes Are Leading the Way to Remove Dams and Restore Ecosystems
https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2021/07/14/tribes-remove-dams-restore-ecosystems
When the Elwha River dams fell, it was the culmination of many decades of successful partnerships among the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and dozens of other local and national organizations. Today, those partnerships continue to support the tribe in righting historic wrongs.
#nature #environment #dams #dam #removal #rivers #watershed #waterways #Indigenous #peoples #advocacy #activism #yesmagazine
Rights for Rivers: Fighting for the Legal Rights of Nature
https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2021/07/06/rights-of-nature-conservation
#nature #environment #rivers #legalrights #rights-of-nature #rights-for-nature #watershed #waterways #watersheds #waterislife #yesmagazine
COVID-19 Sparks a Rebirth of the Local Farm Movement
https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2020/05/21/coronavirus-food-local-farm-movement/
#food #food-growing #food-growers #food-gardening #food-communities #community-supported-agriculture #local #organic #farm #movement #yesmagazine
