While most #Canadians become ever more disconnected from the #NaturalWorld, #IndigenousPeoples are restoring their languages, cultures & nature-based practices.

Re: David Stannard, author of American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World, up to one hundred million #AboriginalPeople lived in the #WesternHemisphere before the arrival of Europeans. Indigenous peoples #coexisted in relative harmony with nature, supported by #diversity of native plants & animals.

https://rabble.ca/columnists/indigenous-led-environmental-assessment-and-conservation-offer-huge-benefits-to-canadians/

#Australia Map showing the #Voice #Referendum Results by Polling Place, with red indicating more "No" votes, and blue indicating more "Yes" votes. Point size indicates % #Indigenous population.

An amazing contribution of Jesse Reilly to understand the results of the Referendum.

Access to the interactive map:
https://api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/tigerstyle/clnsqdgbh00w701ps3mc3eq6a.html?title=false&access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoidGlnZXJzdHlsZSIsImEiOiJjam55bW81cG4wdTJpM3ZvMHN2bDFuc3UzIn0.BhggU09IZiMD_Eo9gghc1A&zoomwheel=true#4.03/-24.29/131.49

Original source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/voice-referendum-results-polling-place-jesse-reilly-r18rc

#aboriginalpeople #ulurustatement

#Australia has rejected the proposal to amend the #Constitution to recognise #FirstNations people and create a body for them to advise the #government in a #referendum. All six states voted No.

There was no change in the constitution, but another thing also hasn't changed:

Always was.
Always will be.
#Aboriginal land.

#ulurustatement #auspol #aboriginalandtorresstraitislander #aboriginalpeople

https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/ReferendumNationalResults-29581.htm

#Movies #Films #Australia #AboriginalPeople #Colonialism #PhillipNoyce

I was glad to find this on You Tube. I last saw it on VHS at least 20 years ago, or 19 years if it didn't come out on tape right off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UK5N-tntMI&t=4s

Last Words on the #Yowie - #Australia's
#Phantom #CryptidApe

Last month, Tony Healy and Paul Cropper launched their fourth book, The Yowie File: Encounters with Australian Ape-men. It’s a companion volume to The Yowie (Anomalist Books, 2006) with many more historical cases and a stack of additional modern era reports. It is available in hardback, softcover and e-book.

An entire chapter to #Indigenous Yowie #Folklore, showing that many, if not most, #AboriginalPeople, from Cape York Peninsula right down the east coast to Victoria, across to South Australia, Western Australia and up to the Northern Territory, strongly believe in the existence of hair-covered, man-like or ape-like creatures. Their many cultures have different terms for them – doolagarl, thoolagarl, nooncoonah, jimbra, tjangara, puttikan and jurrawarra, to name but a few.

Cropper's 40-year search for an explanation for stories and reports, that include folklore, reportage from Australia's colonial era (1788-1900), to the present has had him reinterpreting the sightings phenomena and the #HighStrangeness #Anomalies. He has viewed and attempted to understand the Yowie reports in the context of #CryptidEncounters, Parapsychology, and Folklore & #FolkMemory.

#Book #Books #BookCover
https://www.thefortean.com/2023/05/23/last-word-on-the-yowie/