#aborigines

[probablyasocialecologist]

The tropical arid lands of Australia have been the continual home to Indigenous people possibly longer than anywhere on Earth today. Far from being one of the Earth’s remaining wilderness areas, the Western Deserts of Australia are the ancestral home of a number of Aboriginal peoples, who have managed these landscapes for millennia. Indeed, the effects of removing Indigenous peoples from the landscape in the 1960s was catastrophic, resulting in uncontrolled wildfires and a degradation of the ecological qualities for which this landscape was originally valued. Unsurprisingly, the return of these lands to Indigenous traditional owners over the past two decades has seen improvements in the socioecological dynamics of the region. Indeed, some Aboriginal peoples in Australia view “wild country” (wilderness) as “sick country’”: land that has been degraded through a lack of care through use. Thus, Aboriginal notions of wilderness are antithetical to the technocratic and romantic notions of wilderness representing “pristine” and healthy ecosystems that underpin many modern-day conservation efforts. The outcome continues to be a clash of worldviews in a globalizing society where the Western epistemologies governing dominant conservation practices operate in an echo-chamber that continues to erase other ways of knowing from conservation dialogue.

Indigenous knowledge and the shackles of wilderness

#Australia #indigenous #wilderness #nature #aborigines

[legend-collection]

The Yara-ma-yha-who is a legendary creature found in Australian Aboriginal mythology. The legend is recounted by David Unaipon. According to legend, the creature resembles a little red frog-like man with a very big head, a large mouth with no teeth and suckers on the ends of its hands and feet.

Pic by tohdraws on deviantart

The Yara-ma-yha-who is said to live in fig trees. Instead of hunting for food, it is described as waiting for an unsuspecting traveller to rest under the tree. The creature then drops down and uses its suckers to drain the victim's blood. After that it swallows the person, drinks some water, and then takes a nap. When the Yara-ma-yha-who awakens, it regurgitates the victim, leaving them shorter than before. The victim's skin also has a reddish tint to it that it didn't have before. If this process is repeated, the victim becomes a Yara-ma-yha-who themselves.

According to legend, the Yara-ma-yha-who is only active during the day and only targets living prey. "Playing dead" until sunset (it is said to only hunt during the day) is offered as a ploy to avoid attack. Stories of this creature were reportedly told to misbehaving children.

#yara-ma-yha-who #aborigines #australia

[indizombie]

Australia's Indigenous people have over 60,000 years of history, and half of Australians were either born overseas or have a parent who was. But the media representing such a multicultural population remains disproportionately white. A 2022 study found more than three quarters of the reporters or presenters on Australian TV were from an Anglo-Celtic cultural background. The difference was even more pronounced at the leadership and board level.

Tiffanie Turnbull, ‘Stan Grant: Aboriginal TV host's exit renews criticism of Australian media’, BBC

#BBC #Tiffanie Turnbull #Stan Grant #Australia #Aborigines #Australian TV #Anglo-Celtic background

[mysharona1987]

#Aborigines #queen elizabeth #politics #woc #news #poc #colonism

[kp777]

Australia rejects proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in constitution

#australia #australian constitution #indigenous peoples #aborigines #first peoples #inequality #racism

[tredawakandan]

Just my reminder that apparently no dark skinned population was found in the Americas at all😅. Apparently they existed everywhere else but here.Poor Us 😭

Y'all better stop lying and keep them folks from stealing ur Heritage & History 👌🏿

#black history #autochthonous #aboriginal #black history month #aboriginal american #african history #american aborigine #black history 365 #muurs #aborigines #black asians #afro European #negrito #black European #muur #world history #black culture #black history facts

[quaydrip]

How they look? 💚

#hairstyles #viralpost #melanin #braids #cornrows #aborigines

[news4dzhozhar]

#icc #icj #rwanda #Namibia #aborigines #indigenous rights #the US is complicit in genocide #france is complicit in genocide #Germany is complicit in genocides #theyve learned nothing #what happened to “never again”? #no accountability #double standards #accountability isnt antisemitism #the us is complicit in genocide #israel is committing genocide #israel is an apartheid state #apartheid #ethnic cleansing #darfur #spread awareness #we will never forget #colonization #trail of tears #the US has the blood of millions of innocents on its hands #founded on genocide #stand up for humanity #hold them accountable #justice delayed is justice denied #selective justice

[andnowanowl]

A group of "half-caste" children in Australia, stolen from their families to be raised separate from society.

A group of metís boys from the Congo, stolen from their families to be raised separate from society.

Native American children stolen from their families in Oklahoma to "civilize" them.

In every picture, the penguins are there.

#australia #congo #aborigines #metis #but not native american metis #native americans #indian boarding schools #stolen children #america #christianity is a tool of colonialism #when in the hands of white supremacists

[knario47]

CANARIAS TIENE UN LIMITE

(El Legado, cultura y patrimonio)

Manifestación Playa de Las Canteras

#canarias tiene un limite #20a #moratoria turistica #aborigenous #indigenous #culture #history #genocide #native #unesco #united nations #canary islands #cou penal international #international criminal court #corte penal internacional #aborigines #indigenas #cultura #historia #genocidio #nativos #naciones unidas #islas canarias #canarias la colonia mas antigua del mundo #canarias tiene identidad cultural propia #descolonizacion de canarias #canarias #onu #icc #el legado cultura y patrimonio

[universalambients]

Big Horn Mountains (1873) Ambient Music

#big horn mountains #big horn #native american #indigenous #nativeamericans #native #first nations #native american art #american indian #native art #natives #navajo #native american culture #native beauty #native american history #indigenous art #aboriginal artist #aboriginal culture #aborigines #dances with wolves #westworld #western #westerns #cowboy #old west #wild west #the good the bad and the ugly #spaghetti western #western spaghetti #rocky mountains

[illuminatingfacts]

#aboriginal australian #aboriginal people #aboriginal art #aborigines #MidJourney #ai art #ai community

[berlinauslander]

To white Australians, Menindee is famous as the base camp for two whites who had suffered worse from the desert's dry heat over a century earlier: the Irish policeman Robert Burke and the English astronomer William Wills, ill-fated leaders of the first European expedition to cross Australia from south to north. Setting out with six camels packing food enough for three months, Burke and Wills ran out of provisions while in the desert north of Menindee. Three successive times, they encountered and were rescued by well-fed Aborigines whose home was that desert, and who plied the explorers with fish, fern cakes, and roasted fat rats. But then Burke foolishly shot his pistol at one of the Aborigines, whereupon the whole group fled. Despite their big advantage over the Aborigines in possessing guns with which to hunt, Burke and Wills starved, collapsed, and died within a month after the Aborigines' departure.

#colonialism #imperialism #australia #aborigines #books

[nando161mando]

Aboriginal elder and advocates fear lack of information about the Voice to Parliament

A Noongar Elder is urging Australians to learn more about the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, as he fears a lack of understanding may sink the looming referendum.

The growing concern is shared by others, on both sides of the Voice debate, including advocates, and Former Australian of the year, Fiona Stanley.

#australia #voice to parliament #the voice #ausgov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas #indigenous #indigenous rights #humanrights #classwar #antifascist #antiracism #antinationalism #aborigines #aboriginal #blacklivesmatter #black lives matter #antiauthoritarian #antinationalist #antifascism #antifascista #anticapitalista #anti capitalist love notes #anti capitalist excellence #anti capitalism #goodnightwhitepride #imperialism #anti imperialism

[realjaysumlin]

A real history of Aboriginal Australians, the first agriculturalists | ...

How Black Indigenous History are denied and the shit people who calls themselves white rewrote history of making themselves superior. The conqueror will never tell the truth about true history of Black Indigenous People worldwide.

#black love #black positivity #black africans #black history #black aboriginal #aborigines #aboriginals #black indigenous love #black indigenous history #black indigenous women #black indigenous people #Youtube

[quaydrip]

How you go viral on here 😭… Enjoy 🤎🏹

#melanin #melanin men #natural hair #melaninskin #explorepage #healthyhair #dark skin #new to tumblr #aborigines #viral photo #melaninkings #explorepageready #naturalhairmag #likeforlikes #bombfr #curlyafro