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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland has apologized to the Sámi people, acknowledging its role in stigmatizing Sámi language and culture.
It's the latest in a series of apologies from Scandinavian churches to #Indigenous populations.
Mohawk students from the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe have filed a legal complaint in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of New York, challenging recent federal changes that limit their access to college financial aid.
“Like so many of their generation, because of the trauma and suffering experienced at the hands of our then government, they never spoke te reo to us, their mokopuna, even on our marae.” — Takutai Tarsh Kemp, Te Pāti Māori MP who passed away last week. #Māori #Indigedon #Aotearoa #TakutaiMoanaNatashaKemp #TPM #MoeMaiRaa #ETangata
https://e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/takutai-tarsh-kemp-a-grassroots-marae-girl/
“Everything I know can be attributed to my upbringing at Takirau marae, our whānau, our ahi kā . . . I will always be grateful for my whānau who raised me in a home on my whenua, surrounded by my cousins. We're proud to be Māori.” — Takutai Tarsh Kemp.
“In mātauranga, we would connect everything wider, and I think that’s where the richness is, because when we concentrate too much on one particular smaller element, we can lose the bigger picture of what's really happening around us.” — Dr Pauline Harris #Māori #Indigedon #Aotearoa #ETangata #Mātauranga #IndigenousKnowledge
https://e-tangata.co.nz/korero/pauline-harris-looking-to-the-stars/
“I always had a picture of Matariki next to my bed when I was growing up. I found it in National Geographic . . . I ripped the page out and put it on my wall, not knowing it would become really important to me later in life.” — Dr Pauline Harris, astrophysicist and expert on Māori astronomy and maramataka.
"'Collier's hope was that stock reduction would protect Diné self-sufficiency by preventing overgrazing from ruining the range,' argued Rosser. 'Ironically, stock reduction forced the Diné into dependency.' It robbed many Navajos of their livelihood, pushing them onto welfare for the first time.'" #Indigenous
NPR affiliate KYUK in the west-central part of Alaska has had some good coverage of the glorification of St. Olga, the first canonized Yup’ik saint, including this piece on what she continues to mean to a lot of people.
"Those findings hold true for Chantu William, a young Tsilhqot'in language speaker and second generation residential school survivor who says learning her language growing up supported her mental health and identity as an Indigenous person."
Indigenous people's health tightly tied to speaking their own languages, review finds https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/indigenous-health-outcomes-indigenous-language-revitalization-1.7569554 #Indigenous #health #language
Researchers analyzed 262 academic and community-based studies from Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, and determined 78 per cent of them connected Indigenous language vitality with improved health.
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