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The Typescript<p>Haida Gwaii: Restoring Indigenous Sovereignty<br>This week, the Crown in Right of Canada and the Haida Nation signed an historic pact that restored Indigenous sovereignty to the Haida Gwaii, including the lands, freshwater beds, and foreshores to the low-tide mark.&nbsp; In other words, th<br><a href="https://thetypescript.com/haida-gwaii-restoring-indigenous-sovereignty/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thetypescript.com/haida-gwaii-</span><span class="invisible">restoring-indigenous-sovereignty/</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Commentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commentary</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FirstPerson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPerson</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/IndigenousAffairs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAffairs</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MatthewBarlow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MatthewBarlow</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HaidNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HaidNation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HaidaGwaii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HaidaGwaii</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/IndigenousNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JustinTrudeau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JustinTrudeau</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a></p>
Aaron<p>For Forging Magazine, I interviewed three Gayogo̱hó:nǫ’ (Cayuga) people who have continued to grow cultural programs for children and adults, despite repeated attacks on the spaces where they learn their language and hold ceremonies.</p><p>And of course the repeated attacks on those cultural centers are due to the actions of the US government, which has interfered with the Nation's governance process.</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/IndigenousAffairs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAffairs</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Cayuga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cayuga</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/CayugaNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CayugaNation</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journalism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://forgeproject.com/forging/a-q-a-on-cultural-resistance-in-cayuga-nation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forgeproject.com/forging/a-q-a</span><span class="invisible">-on-cultural-resistance-in-cayuga-nation</span></a></p>
The Typescript<p>RCMP Takes Cultural Appropriation to New Low<br>[Editor's Note: We at&nbsp;The Typescript are excited to have formalized an agreement with Iori:wase, the community newspaper of the Kahnawà:ke Haudenosaunee Territory, southwest of Montréal, edited by our friend and colleague Greg Horn. This agreement will see us co-publish opinion pieces].<br>Th<br><a href="https://thetypescript.com/rcmp-takes-cultural-appropriation-to-new-low/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thetypescript.com/rcmp-takes-c</span><span class="invisible">ultural-appropriation-to-new-low/</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Commentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commentary</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Culture</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/IndigenousAffairs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAffairs</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CanadianPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanadianPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RCMP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RCMP</span></a></p>
The Typescript<p>How Do You Define Indigenous Identity?<br>Over the last several months there’s been an ongoing discussion about Indigenous identity, and an argument about who and what the Métis are, as well as discussions about ‘pretendians.’ One of the biggest issues that clouds these discussions is the fact that it is the federal government who are defining how<br><a href="https://thetypescript.com/how-do-you-define-indigenous-identity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thetypescript.com/how-do-you-d</span><span class="invisible">efine-indigenous-identity/</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Commentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commentary</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/IndigenousAffairs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAffairs</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/canadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canadian</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GregHorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GregHorn</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/identity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>identity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indigenous</span></a></p>
Striking Distance Ithaca<p>Ithaca, New York is on stolen Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ land, but local media often ignores and erases the contemporary presence and issues faced by the Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ community.</p><p>And, of course, national media helicopters in as soon as there is violence or destruction, but fails to give context or coverage in the absence of those things.</p><p>"By failing to heed the decision of Halftown’s Clanmother, the US government continues to violate the Two Row Wampum Treaty, a centuries-old pact of peace, friendship, and mutual non-interference in matters of governance between the Haudenosaunee and settlers," writes Ken Wolkin in Striking Distance. </p><p>"Not only has the BIA, housed within the Department of the Interior, shown a willful disregard for the role of Clanmothers within Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ governance, it also refuses to engage diplomatically with the Council of Chiefs, who hold the role of conducting Nation-to-Nation diplomacy for the Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ people."</p><p>Striking Distance aims to continue covering this <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAffairs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAffairs</span></a> issue and other under-covered local issued affecting communities in the Ithaca and surrounding areas.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ithaca" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ithaca</span></a></p><p><a href="https://striking-distance.com/indepth/feb2024-gayogohono-update" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">striking-distance.com/indepth/</span><span class="invisible">feb2024-gayogohono-update</span></a></p>
Paige Vega (Blankenbuehler)<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://journa.host/@JanArz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>JanArz</span></a></span> certainly 🙂 here's our homepage: <a href="https://www.hcn.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">hcn.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>and here's an especially great feature by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://journa.host/@Toastie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Toastie</span></a></span>, a staff writer on our <a href="https://journa.host/tags/IndigenousAffairs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAffairs</span></a> Desk, that I'd highlight for starters: <a href="https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.10/indigenous-affairs-fish-pacific-lamprey-are-underwater-legends" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">hcn.org/issues/54.10/indigenou</span><span class="invisible">s-affairs-fish-pacific-lamprey-are-underwater-legends</span></a></p>
Alice Marshall<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/IndigenousAffairs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAffairs</span></a> </p><p>The return of the American <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bison</span></a> is an environmental boon — and a logistical mess<br>American bison are back on the rise. The problem is, they don't respect fences. </p><p><a href="https://grist.org/indigenous/return-of-american-bison-environmental-boon-yellowstone-buffalo/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">grist.org/indigenous/return-of</span><span class="invisible">-american-bison-environmental-boon-yellowstone-buffalo/</span></a></p>