Indigenous Studies
12 Threads
It's time for this week's #IndigenousGeographies thread--a short one on Indigenous cartographies! (1/) https://t.co/wJ4AlkWwGc
Reflections on schooling and learning by Mundiya Kepanga, the chief of the Huli tribe in Papua New Guinea. https://t.co/KswhLEHt2V
The observer is not separate from the object observed https://t.co/uAP7feGuQM
What if you launched a war against your neighbours, not to gain land or treasure, but to forcibly create new people? The Iroquois Wars for Mourning, Grief, Revenge and Beavers in...
First Nations = Warfare You know that about 12,000 yrs ago, all humans practiced hunter-gathering. My hunter-gatherer ancestors moved around from the Barrington Mountains, in winte...
A defense of the book “Royal Commentaries of the Incas” by El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. A thread. 🧵1/ https://t.co/utFVSUvCj9
Indigenous Incan Socialism is a documented economic model. El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega wrote "Royal Commentaries of the Incas", one of the earliest histories of the Inca Empire, w...
Friends, IIT Hyderabad has started a online new https://t.co/DYNtUEKjMZ. program in Heritage Science and Technology. The people behind this are absolutely solid scholars. Please in...
Pongal is a harvest festival. It’s inherently ecocentric (ergo inherently indigenous in concept.) It’s both local/regional and Hindu. There’s no dichotomy. If followers of Abrahami...
Blackfoot [Native Indians] of Montana and Alberta live in a world of constant flux and process—instead of fixed laws and organizations, the Blackfoot have networks of relationship...
key takeaway: humans aren’t the problem—it’s our systems. we don’t need to vanish to heal the earth, we need a revolution of policy and ideology that changes the way we interact wi...
I was just asked by a colleague how I facilitate Q & A sessions—I guess the word is out that I am very deliberate about how an academic Q & A should go after a talk or panel. I thi...
