Word of the Day: "Potlatch"

…a ceremonial feast practiced by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, including BC’s Haida Nation, involving gift-giving and cultural celebrations. This practice was banned from 1884-1951 but has since been revitalized. 🇨🇦 #IndigenousCulture #Canada

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/potlatch

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Sun Journal: UMaine to return human remains, burial objects to Wabanaki Nations. “The University of Maine has identified the remains of at least 26 Indigenous people and 532 burial objects held in its collection that are now slated to be returned to the Wabanaki Nations.”

Chronogram: Lakota-Led AI Research at Bard College Explores Ethics Through Indigenous Knowledge. “At Bard’s Wíhaŋble S’a Center, artist and scholar Suzanne Kite is rethinking artificial intelligence through Lakota knowledge—combining hide tanning, beadwork, dream research, and land-based practice to imagine a more ethical relationship with technology.”

EBSCO: EBSCO Information Services Launches Global Indigenous Studies Database. “The extensive collection in Indigenous Studies Source contains 138 full-text journals and magazines. It also features seminal books, tribal newspapers and reports covering the fifty largest Indigenous groups across North America, Asia, South America, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. Topics span cultural preservation […]

https://medium.com/speculative-encounters/the-hopis-then-now-and-whats-to-come-140acb84a096

An ancient people, a living culture, and a future shaped by continuity, responsibility, and change.

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Arizona State University: New architecture program teaches students how to design with Indigenous principles in mind. “Imagine a Tempe Town Lake free of concrete, its banks lush with native creosote and wildflowers, with winding dirt paths. That visualization was created by a student who applied Indigenous principles to a design problem. Noor Alzuhairi is in the first cohort of the Indigenous […]

Intercontinental Cry: Scholars Propose Indigenous Global Media Network, Call for UN-backed Oversight. “A newly published academic paper is calling for the creation of an Indigenous Global Media Network, arguing that Indigenous Peoples remain systematically excluded from global media systems at a time when international decisions affecting their lands, cultures and rights are intensifying.”

KIMA: New website shares data about the Yakama Reservation. “A new website has hit the internet, which shares data about the Yakama Nation…. This new resource has information about people, economic vitality, education, health, housing and more in the borders of the Yakama Reservation.”