The Question Concerning Genocide

Stop Native Genocide. End All Borders.

"Cultural genocide — that’s what a Canadian commission ruled that country’s former practice of forcibly removing First Nations children from their family homes.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada spent six years investigating Canada’s residential schools for native children. In the late 19th into the 20th century, Canadian officials would take First Nations children from their homes and send them to boarding schools meant to help them assimilate into white Canadian culture.
Over the course of their history, the schools saw 150-thousand children of native background walk through their doors. At the boarding schools students were stripped of their native culture; many also were subjected to various kinds of abuse. Native families and communities are still working to come to terms with the legacy of forcible removal."

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Is Snow Made from Wastewater Safe for Skiers?

No Shit Snow by Xomiele on Flickr.

Is Snow Made from Wastewater Safe for Skiers?

"The Arizona Supreme Court has greenlighted a lawsuit that the Hopi Tribe brought against the city of Flagstaff, Ariz. for selling wastewater to a local ski resort to make fake snow. In a procedural victory, the tribe has won the right to proceed with its lawsuit challenging Flagstaff’s 2002 decision to sell reclaimed wastewater to the Arizona Snowbowl ski area, on claims that the wastewater snow creates a “public nuisance.” The Arizona Court of Appeals last April had overturned a trial judge’s dismissal of the case in 2011. The city then asked the supreme court to review the appeals court ruling, but the petition was denied on Jan. 7."

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Street Artists: Jetsonorama

Jetsonorama by xomiele.

Street Artists: Jetsonorama

"Jetsonorama's story is pretty incredible, you see, he is a 55 years old doctor who has left his career and started wheat pasting water tanks with people portraits mainly from the Navajo community. It all started in the 1980's with the hip hop culture but he really changed his life after a sabbatical year in Brazil where he met some street artists that created a great impression on him. He calls this "The Art of the Rural".

La historia de Jetsonorama es bastante acojonante, el tío es un licenciado en medicina de 55 años que influenciado por la cultura del hip-hop de los 80 y sobre todo por un año sabático que pasó en Brasil donde conoció varios artistas urbanos decidió pasar a pegar carteles de gente en fachadas, sobre todo de personas de la comunidad de Navajos. El lo llama "El arte de lo rural".

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If the Lord Say So: A Call for World Healing by 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.

Praying Hands by xomiele, on Flickr

If the Lord Say So: A Call for World Healing by 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.

"My great-grandmother, Nana, was famous for one-liners.

Perhaps it was years of raising children, 73 years of marriage or just living in her body that reduced convoluted explanations for life’s occurrences to its simplest forms.

“If the Lord say so,” she’d respond in her thick as peanut butter Southern accent (despite 50 years of living in Newark, New Jersey)—to anything that appeared overwhelming.

That saying drove me crazy because of its passivity and lack of intention. I needed clear, defined goals; I couldn’t accept her throwing her expectations to the wind. A saying I was just starting to understand in the months before she transitioned."

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