Mastodawn

RE: https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/116598768141889346

Where did this outbreak start? NT First Nations populations where they don't have access to decent healthcare.
You can thank Andrew Forrest + Tony Abbott for their cashless welfare punchdown, along with high rates of imprisonment. Healthcare, climate, humanrights - everything is connected.
Time for a billionaire tax!
#Australia #AusPol #NTPol #FirstNations #diphtheria #AusHealth #AndrewForrest #CashlessWelfare #climate #genocide #DiseaseOutbreak
#PublicHealth
#VaccinesandImmunity

Peter Riley 1h ago

Näku means “bark” and Dhäruk means “the word” or “message” in #yolnu matha (tongue).
#NäkuDhäruk: The Bark Petitions third in #ClaireWright’ “democracy trilogy” Forgotten Rebels of #Eureka women during the 1850s Eureka Stockade, and You Daughters of Freedom white Australian women win the right to vote.

Wright spent a decade writing Näku Dhäruk (640-pages) living and working with the #Yirrkala community.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/18/clare-wright-wins-book-of-the-year-nsw-literary-awards

#firstNations

‘A book that should be read by all Australians’: Clare Wright wins book of the year at the NSW Literary awards

The historian won $50,000 for her nonfiction book Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions, which judges praised as deeply researched, ‘highly original’ and ‘vividly alive’

The Guardian

PugJesus 5h ago

Inuit with loaded sleds in Nunavut, Canada, 1915

https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/2072234/inuit-with-loaded-sleds-in-nunavut-canada-1915

Anthropology.net 13h ago

A male dingo buried ~1,000 years ago on Australia’s Baaka River was ‘fed’ mussel shells by Barkindji ancestors for five centuries after death — the first post-burial animal feeding practice ever documented archaeologically. #Archaeology #Dingo #FirstNations https://www.anthropology.net/p/buried-and-fed-for-five-centuries

Buried and Fed for Five Centuries: The Millennium-Old Dingo Burial on the Baaka

An excavation in New South Wales reveals the world's first evidence of a post-burial animal feeding practice and the Darling River's first dated dingo burial.

Anthropology.net

Prof Lutz 14h ago

Cris Derksen. Je me sens toujours un peu con quand je découvre une artiste sur le tard, particulièrement lors de son décès. 😑

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-6jjXB3Tyk

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/cris-derksen-has-died

#Cello #FirstNationsMusicians #FirstNations #Canada #Alberta

Cris Derksen - Winter Bourne | Sofar Toronto

Cris Derksen performing "Winter Bourne" at Sofar Toronto on December 13th, 2015Click here to come to a show in your city: https://www.sofarsounds.comFor a ne...

YouTube

Peter Riley 1d ago

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-18/nt-aboriginal-ranger-camp-women-rangers-protecting-country/106678228

#Arrernte
#FirstNations #photography

Meet the women rangers in Central Australia working to protect country

Dozens of Central Land Council Aboriginal rangers gathered east of Alice Springs last week for the 2026 Women's Ranger Camp — a time for health, learning and healing in the wake of the town's recent loss of Kumanjayi Little Baby.

❄️SnowyIn❄️ 🇨🇦🚫🦻1d ago

🇨🇦 😔
"Award-winning Cree composer and cellist Cris Derksen, who had strong ties to Manitoba’s arts community, has died following a car crash in northern Alberta. They were 45.

Derksen, originally from Treaty 8 territory in Alberta, composed the music for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s 2024 production of Cameron Fraser-Moore’s ballet Tel: Wild Man of the Woods. According to reports, the crash occurred while Derksen and their wife, singer Rebecca Benson, were travelling home from Derksen’s father’s funeral. Benson was reportedly left in critical condition in hospital."
Derkson also founded the Indigenous Classical Gathering at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, served as artistic advisor for the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, and chaired the equity committee for Orchestras Canada.

#Cree #Music #FirstNations #Canada
#Manitoba #Indigenous

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/2026/05/17/renowned-composer-cellist-derksen-dead-after-car-crash

Renowned composer, cellist Derksen dead after car crash

Winnipeg Free Press

CBC Calgary 1d ago

Q&A: Why treaty rights and First Nations consultation stand in the way of an Alberta separation referendum
Matthew Wildcat, director of Indigenous governance at the University of Alberta, spoke with CBC’s Edmonton AM on Friday. He explained how Indigenous treaty rights and the duty to consult First Nations could impact a potential Alberta separation referendum.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/independence-referendum-rulings-explained-9.7201959?cmp=rss