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B.C. Court of Appeal overturns B.C. Supreme Court ruling on Nootka Island title
The B.C. Court of Appeal has overturned a lower-court ruling after finding the judge used an "arbitrary boundary" to determine a First Nation's Aboriginal title over a swath of Nootka Island off western Vancouver Island.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/nootka-island-title-nuchatlaht-court-of-appeal-bc-9.7152337?cmp=rss

Anastasiia Onu Apr 2

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#Canada would do "The Great Scoop"(50s-80s), when #Canadian officials would break into #Aboriginal homes and kidnap their #children to be sent away to residential schools. These schools would cut their hair, disallow their #native #language, teach only #western #history. Stories of physical mental and sexual #abuse of these children were rampant, on top of being separated from their families."

#russia did the same during stalin's campaign "fighting illiteracy" (likbez, read genocide)
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AJ Sadauskas Mar 29

Today, I saw a really powerful short film by Aboriginal filmmaker Vernon Ah Kee titled "Code Black/Riot". The film features firsthand accounts from Aboriginal children about their experiences in the youth prison system. They discussed how they were locked away in unlit cells for, in some cases, over a week at a time due to short staffing, and how they are subject to brutal violence by prison guards.

Here's a description from The Guardian:

"Among the biennale’s most powerful works is a collaborative project by Kurdish Iranian journalist and author Behrouz Boochani, Iranian Australian artist Hoda Afshar and Kuku Yalandji/Waanji/Yidinji/Gugu Yimithirr artist Vernon Ah Kee, focusing on the experiences of Indigenous youth in detention. At Campbelltown Arts Centre, a darkened gallery space is devoted to the four-channel video installation Code Black/Riot, featuring the testimonials of former staff members and child inmates of a facility in north Queensland."

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/ng-interactive/2026/mar/13/sydney-biennale-2026-highlights-politics-nuance-beauty

Alongside it is a short film by Kurdish filmmaker Behrouz Boochani, himself a survivor of seven years of detention at the Manus Island immigration detention centre, in which former detainees share their experiences of life in detention.

Both are currently on show for free at the Campbelltown Arts Centre as part of the Biennale.

I really strongly recommend anyone in or around Sydney come down to hear these accounts. They will change how you see the country.

(And yes, I know there's the ick factor around Campbelltown and it's far away from everywhere. Hearing these accounts is 1000% worth the trip.)

Details here: https://www.campbelltownartscentre.com.au/Whats-On/Exhibitions/25th-Biennale-of-Sydney-Rememory/25th-Biennale-of-Sydney-Rememory

#art #FirstNations #Aboriginal #Auspol #Campbelltown #auspol #nsw #Australia

Mike Riversdale Mar 24

"Johnny? Johnny who?", I asked, she looked bemused at me.

So I Googled and here's Johnny!

https://blog.mikeriversdale.co.nz/2026/03/johnny-warangkula.html

#NT #Australia #Aboriginal #indigenous #artist

Let's Meet Johnny Warangkula

An AT (Aboriginal Teacher / Assistant Teacher) sat next to me the other week and was telling me how Johnny was her grandad. "Johnny? Johnny...

Jax UK Mar 23

#HomeEducation

Going to start posting more about our HE journey :)

My daughter is 16 in June and has been HE since she was 13 due to an unsupportive school environment where her difficult menstrual cycles and social anxiety were punished.

Today, she watched a documentary about the Outback (Surviving the Outback) and practiced some piano scales before doing some work on her Music course with #openlearn which is an amazing resource for older home edders.

This evening she will help me cook dinner, and wants to watch another doc later about #Aboriginal history/culture as the previous doc peaked her interest. Not sure which yet so open to suggestions :)

Show thread

Kabbaway Mar 21

Decolonisation message for Valentine's Day 💚

🔗 https://youtube.com/shorts/4lF65miwG-0

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #FirstNations #Hawaiians #Solidarity #ValentinesDay #Feb14 #Feb14th #February14 #February_14 #February14th #February_14th #Valentines_Day #VDay #V_Day #Video #YouTube #YT #YouTuber #YTer

Decolonisation Message for Valentine's Day #BIPOC #Decolonise #Racism #Genocide

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Aby Mar 20

My verto disability officer (who is from London) was asking me how my trip to the UK was, and then she started talking about how "it's changed because ✨the population✨ has changed".

She then went on to talk about how she has friends who live there who told her how some of ✨the new population✨ moved into their village and are changing everything. She complained about how hundreds of years of tradition were being undone by ✨new people✨ moving in and bringing their own traditions with them and how horrid that is.

Sitting on unceded Wiradjuri Country, surrounded by her gaudy easter decorations.

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation