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Brothers and Sisters, Keep Your Culture.

@oceania-unite

Originally titled "kanaka-maoli-keep-your-culture", this blog initally focused on the cultural and political activism of the Kanaka Maoli ethnicity of Hawai'i. It has now grown to include all indigenous and First Nation Pacific Peoples, as well as standing in strong solidarity with our indigenous cousins across the waters in the Americas and elsewhere. We may have been seperated into Polynesia, Mirconesia, Melanesia, and Beyond - but we are all One as Oceania. We are an irriplacable branch of the Human Family, and a unique expression of the Human Experience - it is our responsibilty to find and nourish our Roots before they are gone. We are One People of Many Cultures, Many Colors - a microcosm of our species. From the Philippines to Papua to Hawai'i to Aotearoa to Everywhere inbetween - we are the Ocean, and we must Unite to cherish and protect what our ancestors left for us. It is not only our responsibility to protect our geographic and cultural origins, but also those of our Family worldwide. We all share this world, and we ought to treat the lands and customs of others as we ought to treat our own - with Love, Respect, and Humility. Aloha Nui.

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sixpenceee

Just in case you forgot how big the Pacific ocean is.

supersamstorm-deactivated202210

thanks i had forgotten

today your words are empty sucking dry the brown dust left by earth and sky patches politely parched with no water flowing from the mountain top scars burn on my soft skin you've cut a piece of me away leaving my bandaged heart to endure the pain of your tying me to yourself

Konai Helu Thaman, “Your Words”

#oceania #decolonize oceania #decolonize #Pasifika #Pacific Islander #Polynesia #polynesian #Micronesian #micronesia #melanesia #Melanesian

angrywhistler

Valentino Quijano

King Lunalilo, oil and alkyd enamel on canvas, 28″x 38″

sunameke

The Age of Light photoshoot… Seta and Lusia on the steps of the Auckland Museum 🌺

wrotten

pasifika-excellence

this is my favorite thing about PCC by far

tlatollotl

Veterans joined activists in a march to Backwater Bridge near Cannon Ball, N.D., during a snowstorm in December.

The authorities in North Dakota said on Wednesday that they had arrested about 75 protesters just south of a bridge that has become a focal point of demonstrations over the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The dozens arrested belong to what the Morton County Sheriff’s Department described in a statement as a “rogue group” that had set up camp on private property south of the Backwater Bridge, the site of previous standoffs between demonstrators and the police.

After instructing the group to take down the camp, law enforcement officers advanced on the site around 3:30 p.m. local time and cleared the area within about a half-hour, according to the statement.

“Regardless of this incident, it is our desire to continue the dialogue with tribal and camp leaders so that the camps continue to be cleaned and protesters leave prior to the flooding season,” the Morton County sheriff, Kyle Kirchmeier, said in a statement.

Representatives of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe worked with officers to collect tepee hides left at the site, according to the department, which said it had made nearly 700 arrests during protests since Aug. 10.

“We hope the arrestees are treated fairly and justly,” David Archambault II, the chairman of the Standing Rock reservation’s official tribal government, said in a statement.

About a week ago, President Trump acted to expedite the $3.7 billion pipeline, which the Army had sidetracked in December.

Despite reports on Tuesday suggesting that the Army Corps of Engineers had approved a final element of the pipeline, an Army Corps spokesman told The Associated Press on Wednesday that it had only begun its review of an easement, which is necessary for the pipeline’s completion.

In response to the news of the easement on Tuesday night, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe said it would pursue legal action to ensure that the Army Corps conducted an environmental impact study before granting an easement.