"Spring has arrived....This, then, is a time for new beginnings and renewal — a time when we can use our voices and our actions to call out for change to save the very thing that gives life to all of us, #MotherEarth." https://yellowknifer.com/2026/04/23/yellowknives-leaders-warn-of-changing-environment-as-earth-week-kicks-off/

#ClimateBreakdown #WaterisLife #Yellowknife #NWT #IndigenousPeoples

From Gold Rush to Green Rush
The environmental consequences of cannabis cultivation

* "Professor Kaitlin Reed (Yurok/Hupa/Oneida) argues that the state's booming cannabis industry can be situated squarely within other extractive settler colonial enterprises such as gold mining and overfishing."

“The real gold is not gold, after all, but the land itself”

Kaitlin P. Reed, "Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California" (U Washington Press, 2023) >>
https://read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural-history/article-abstract/100/1/140/407075/Settler-Cannabis-From-Gold-Rush-to-Green-Rush-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext

* Reed "connects California cannabis production to the violence and dispossession of Indigenous land and people."

"Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous lands."
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/doi/10.1515/9780295751573/html

#cannabis #extractivism #agriculture #logging #overfishing #BackToTheLand #counterculture #GreenIdyll #SettlerSociety #GoldRush #GreenRush #CannabisIndustry #water #pollution #disposession #FirstNationsPeoples #IndigenousPeoples
Image: Country idyll with river

The corrupt #KPMG tries to hide alleged wrongdoings behind closed doors. https://cabinradio.ca/288136/news/justice/lutsel-ke-kpmg-lawsuit-placed-on-hold-while-appeal-plays-out/

#NWT #IndigenousPeoples #CorporateCorruption #CorporateGreed #Capitalism #Canada

Arizona State University: Largest genomic dataset of Indigenous Americans to date sheds light on history, diversity and health. “In a new study published today in Nature, an international team led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, with partners at the University of São Paulo and Arizona State University, analyzed genomes from Indigenous populations spanning North America to Patagonia. […]

Taking care of Country: Looking after Short-tailed shearwaters (muttonbirds)

" ‘The birds are a global citizen’: Indigenous groups in Australia and Alaska team up to track a feathered adventurer’s epic journey. A new knowledge-sharing project aims to ensure the survival of the migratory short-tailed shearwater."

"First Nations peoples on both coasts have noticed that something is wrong. They began to see sick and dying shearwaters washing up on beaches: emaciated, their bellies filled with microplastics instead of food. Birds were turning up in places they hadn’t been." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/26/indigenous-groups-australia-alaska-track-short-tailed-shearwater-bird

#birds #ShortTailedShearwaters #muttonbirds #shearwaters #wildlife #migration #ShiftingBaseline #ClimateCrisis #microplastics #StarvingWildlife #IndigenousPeoples

Image: Giidanyba, The Moon Man, Muttonbird depiction, Gumbaynggirr Country

‘The birds are a global citizen’: Indigenous groups in Australia and Alaska team up to track a feathered adventurer’s epic journey
By Sarah Collard Indigenous affairs correspondent

A new knowledge-sharing project aims to ensure the survival of the migratory short-tailed shearwater

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/26/indigenous-groups-australia-alaska-track-short-tailed-shearwater-bird

#IndigenousAustralians #Indigenouspeoples #Birds #Australianews #Environment #Animals #WesternAustralia #Alaska #Arctic #Plastics #Waste #Conservation #Climatecrisis #Wildlife #USnews #SarahCollardIndigenousaffairscorrespondent