#reindigenize

[songsofbloodandwater]

The best defense is a good offense... but in the sense that the best way to free our people from oppressive systems is to aggressively support our own systems and pour our resources into our own people. It is undeniable that much of capitalism's power comes from an abundance of resources being poured into an equally abundant range of extractive, harmful methodologies and technologies, the resources of dispossessed victims are then used to continue feeding the same extractive machine. The best way to take down harmful systems is to actively create new methodologies from relational ontologies, new sustainable technologies and expand alternative, sustainable systems.

Reclaim. Redirect. Reindigenize.

[speaknahuatl]

Listen to How 2 Stay Inspired & Motivated by #DecolonialZanilli on #SoundCloud

[criticaltheoryclub]

With the help of many local community members and nature practitioners nearly 30+ native plants have returned home. While introducing native plants to the local community, we also bring awareness of the historical context and implications. Genocide of both native people and the native ecology occurred on these lands and it is still important that we seek healing while those traumas have progressed generationally. Especially for us who have been taught a lie that our ancestors were “uncivilized”, we can find rootedness 🌱 in our relations with the land. Western habits and lifestyles don’t respect the land. From city light pollution that confuses animals to paving roads that remove vital plants and trees, we are struggling to survive within a system whose ways are degrading to the planet, to animals, and to people. We are here to build relations that will nurture continuous life. That means reimagining everything. That means realizing our own habits. But more importantly that means finding our own healing journey. #decolonizeland #californianativeplants #tongvaland #regenerativecollective #regenerativegardening #taichi #communityhealing #systemsthinking #reindigenize #nela #sgv (at El Sereno, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnk5RF3BwR8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18qte10tvufv5

[songsofbloodandwater]

I'll never take for granted the honor and priviledge of understanding and speaking our ancestral tongues. I love hearing relatives from all over the americas speak creole/criollo, kimbundu, fon/ewe, yoruba, qechua, and being able to understand each other regardless of sometimes gigantic distances because we're all related.

More than anything I love the deep joy, teary eyed laughter kind of joy, in our Elders faces when you hit them with their own native tongue instead of spanish, french, portuguese or english. When they realize that they can be fully themselves with you, not through the colonizer's strained words, fully ourselves. That it's safe. That you understand them. That you're carrying the culture forward with them. "Sometimes all we need is to be heard" but oh, it's not just that is it? to be understood in full depth?

[waterbasedmedicine]

can we all please be stewards

[baldhedanxiety]

Decolonizing to Re-indigenize — Oral History Master of Arts

Intro: Dr. Nēpia Mahuika’s September 26th workshop titled “Oral History and Indigenous Peoples: Rethinking Oral History, Methods, Politics

[theregenerativecollective-blog]

All land needs to be protected. It's not only a matter of what the people in political power do, it's also a matter of how we all think about land itself. What is your relationship to it? Property? "Private" or "public"? All land is to be valued, with or without human-beings around to say so or to put words and language to it. Fight for the conservation of land and for the regeneration of land for future generations to enjoy and tend to. #protectourpubliclands #protect #publicland #allland #decolonize #land #language #history #ceremony #reindigenize #california #native #plants #curbside #hellstrip #hellstripgardening

[insideyoung]

Jasmine Thomas Girvan. "It may be impossible to reindigenize if we stay reverent towards the structures and ceremonies of civilization. Irreverence means that the trappings of hierarchy then become ours to do as we may. A tea cup transforms from the prison bar of convention to a commentary on enslavement/freedom. A teaspoon of sugar to a container in which bleached skulls are at ease. In other words ... we are free and you can't, ever again, tell us what anything means or how it must be used. 📷 by @loriantoinettew of exhibition Dreaming Backwards by @jasminethomasgirvan. #reindigenize #fullstop" Jill Lilian Goddard. Image by @loriantoinettew (at Y Art Gallery)