#aborigines

[jay-wasreblogging]

STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING WE'VE GOT HISTORIC BREAKING NEWS‼️

'Last night, Victoria's first Treaty passed the Victorian Parliament and will now become a reality.'

'This moment marks the first time in Australia's history that Treaty – an agreement between First Peoples and the state government – has been enshrined into law.'

'The ‘Statewide Treaty Bill 2025’ will make the First Peoples’ Assembly permanent as part of a new First Nations body called Gellung Warl (Gunaikurnai language). Gellung Warl will be able to decide on things like place-naming and cultural practices, support truth-telling education in our schools, and run events like NAIDOC week. It will also have the power to question Ministers directly, holding them to account on things like Closing the Gap. The Treaty Bill will also ensure that the First Peoples’ Assembly is consulted by the state government on legislation affecting Aboriginal people – because when it comes to Aboriginal communities, cultures, and lands, the experts have always been Aboriginal people.'

- Ellen Sandell, Leader of Victorian Greens

[ptseti]

Original and Indigenous Australians that the mainstream media won’t show you celebrating the New Year.

Happy New Year, Family

[afriblaq]

[probablyasocialecologist]

The tropical arid lands of Australia have been the continual home to Indigenous people possibly longer than anywhere on Earth today. Far from being one of the Earth’s remaining wilderness areas, the Western Deserts of Australia are the ancestral home of a number of Aboriginal peoples, who have managed these landscapes for millennia. Indeed, the effects of removing Indigenous peoples from the landscape in the 1960s was catastrophic, resulting in uncontrolled wildfires and a degradation of the ecological qualities for which this landscape was originally valued. Unsurprisingly, the return of these lands to Indigenous traditional owners over the past two decades has seen improvements in the socioecological dynamics of the region. Indeed, some Aboriginal peoples in Australia view “wild country” (wilderness) as “sick country’”: land that has been degraded through a lack of care through use. Thus, Aboriginal notions of wilderness are antithetical to the technocratic and romantic notions of wilderness representing “pristine” and healthy ecosystems that underpin many modern-day conservation efforts. The outcome continues to be a clash of worldviews in a globalizing society where the Western epistemologies governing dominant conservation practices operate in an echo-chamber that continues to erase other ways of knowing from conservation dialogue.

Indigenous knowledge and the shackles of wilderness

[tilbageidanmark]

The Marree Man, a mysterious geoglyph, discovered in the Australian outback in 1998.

It was "five times larger than the largest drawing at Nazca in Peru, 24 times larger than the largest English chalk hill carving, and 50 times larger than any portrayal of the human form. It appears to be the world’s largest work of art.” 

[rain--goblin]

Big fan of learning about the mythology, gods, and spirits of the land you live on, even if it's not your main path. I feel that if you're occupying an area, you should at least try to know the inhabitants

What I'm not so big a fan of is when trying to find information is almost near impossible. The Appalachian region and it's native stories should not be this hard to research. Literally have to search and search and hope to get lucky

[abwwia]

Investment in the Indigenous art market has a direct and traceable human impact. AAP Image/National Museum of Australia, Tim Acker

How super laws are killing the market for Indigenous art

Published: October 31, 2013 8.40pm CET https://theconversation.com/how-super-laws-are-killing-the-market-for-indigenous-art-19591

How super laws are killing the market for Indigenous art

Ownership, investment and art have never been entirely comfortable bedfellows. Recently, an email began to circulate among artists, gallery