#aboriginal nations

[linguaphiliax]

Just updated my profile pic in honour of NAIDOC week and Black History Month (in Australia). A white lyrebird living in a black world looking up to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations of Australia.

[honestlynoonecares]

Just wanna say, from the bottom of my heart, fuck this public holiday and every racist pos that 'celebrates' it.

It's not enough to change the date, we have nothing to celebrate.

[youmaycallmebrian]

okay so i live in Québec (Canada’s french province) and i’m studying at university to get my degree in order to become a kindergarten/elementary school teacher, and for our last internship, we were offered kinda of a project, to go do our internship in a school located in a first nations reserve (inside Québec, of course). I think it’s a good idea bc they lack teachers there and also i would be honoured to know more about their culture bc honestly i have so much to learn (we learn about the basics at school but it’s very generalized and stereotypical), and it’d be a very different environment then what i’m used to so that would be an awesome new experience. Also, they have small schools so that means fewer students in class and i really prefer small classes bc you can differentiate your teaching a lot more and you can really take more time for each student. Anyways, I really really want to do it, I think it’s an awesome opportunity and it really reaches my interests, BUT. BUT. BUT. I have anxiety. Like, pretty bad anxiety. I take medication for it. And I’m not used to be away from my parents and bf. And I’m not used to living on my own. And I would kinda NEED to live alone for 3-4 months, far far away from home, in a new community. And depending on where I go, I might have to take a plane (I literally never took a plane in my life... and mom won’t be there to hold my hand if I panic, you know...). Also it’s colder than where I live because it’s way up north.

So yeah. I really want to do it but I don’t know if my mental health is going to get too much in the way... But at the same time, maybe it’s the experience I need like maybe this is going to help me with managing my anxiety? I don’t freaking know, my dudes.

What are your opinions? What should I do?

[khantoelessar]

Louis Levi Oakes, last WW II Mohawk code talker, dies at 94 | CBC News

Louis Levi Oakes, the last Mohawk code talker — using the language to encode messages for Allied forces during the Second World War — has died at age 94.

[animalvoices]

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A Relationship, Fraught: Discussing The Role of Dogs in Native Communities with WSPA’s Josey Kitson Often considered a “third world within the first world” the hardships that aboriginal nations in Canada face on reserves are staggering. Lack of proper infrastructure, access to education, or clean drinking water are problems that are all too common, and these communities struggle on a consistent basis to get their basic needs met. In such communities, dogs play the role of companion, but also of worker, helping transport people and goods, and providing other services for the community. Unfortunately, as many of these communities struggle to meet their basic needs, the basic needs of their companion and working dogs too go unmet, resulting in overpopulation issues and more.

On this program, we speak with WSPA’s Canadian Project Manager Josey Kitson, who has worked extensively with remote aboriginal communities to help them with their issues surrounding working and companion dogs. Though it is obviously a difficult issue to tackle in a colonial society such as Canada, Kitson shares with us WSPA’s consultative and coordinated approach, which involves working closely with native communities to ensure that WSPA’s work is done in a way that benefits the dogs involved, while taking seriously the communities’ need for self-determination.