Major Developments and Worsening Risks for Mass Atrocities in Papua, Indonesia (Early Warning Project)

Indonesia’s history of mass violence, political exclusion, and militarization

protests, intra-Papuan divisions, and intensifying armed clashes

https://earlywarningproject.ushmm.org/reports/major-developments-and-worsening-risks-for-mass-atrocities-in-papua-indonesia

Quotes from article: https://diasp.nl/posts/4533728

#WestPapua #WestPapoea #NewGuinea #indonesia #NieuwGuinea #colonialism #papua #papoea #deforestation #indigenous_people #HumanRights #transmigration

Man from uncontacted Indigenous tribe emerges in Amazon, and villagers demonstrate a lighter

In a rare encounter, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon, according to the country’s Indigenous affairs agency and local witnesses. Villagers believed the Indigenous man was asking for fire. Smartphone video of the encounter shows one resident trying to show him how to use a lighter. After being served fish, the man was taken to a nearby facility operated by Funai, the Indigenous bureau. The Amazon rainforest is home to the world’s largest number of uncontacted tribes. As a policy, Brazil does not actively seek contact with them but instead creates protected and monitored areas.

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One of the last Navajo Code Talkers from World War II dies at 107

One of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages during World War II using the tribe's native language has died. John Kinsel Sr. was 107. Navajo Nation officials in Window Rock, Arizona, announced Kinsel’s death on Saturday. Tribal President Buu Nygren has ordered all flags on the reservation to be flown at half-staff to honor Kinsel. Hundreds of Navajos were recruited by the Marines to serve as Code Talkers during the war, transmitting messages using a code based on their then-unwritten native language. Code Talkers participated in all assaults the Marines led in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945, including at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu and Iwo Jima.

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Can Carbon Offsets Save a Fragile Band of Belize’s Tropical Rainforest? - Inside Climate News

Conservationists are racing to save what’s left of the largest tropical forest in Central America, as commercial farming and population growth threaten to cleave it in two.

Inside Climate News
South America Part 1, Volume 3
(1999) Salomon, Frank and Schwarz, Stuart B.
Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0-521-33393-8
#my_bibtex #Inka #andes #brazil #colonialism #ethnography #history #indigenous_people
Congressional Research Service Reports - Miscellaneous Topics

An unofficial collection of CRS reports on national security

7 Gorgeous Feathered Hairstyles For Every Hair Length! Tabs, Thurs., Feb. 16, 2023

To everything turn turn turn there is a season. Morning news roundup!

Wonkette
Contested Waters An Environmental History Of The Colorado River
(2013) : April R. Summitt
isbn: 978-1-60732-211-5
#USA #agriculture #colorado_river #desert #economics #environment #environmental_history #history #indigenous_people #water_rights
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Majority World Health Care Traditions Intersect Indigenous and Complementary and Alternative Medicine
(2006) : Mpofu, Elias
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10349120601008340
#africa #alternative_medicine #anthropology #health_care #indigenous_people #zi
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