The Navajo Nation is nearing completion of a settlement of water rights claims in Arizona, ending decades of negotiations and giving hope for thousands of people who have long gone without running water.
Without Reva Stewart's voice, it's hard to know how much longer members of Arizona’s tribal communities would continue to fall victim to the predatory sobriety homes that scammed millions of dollars from state agencies without helping the people in need.
Last #superbowl it was in #phoenix, and it was a crap show when a ln affluent non-native who owns a native gallery in old town #scottsdale showed his #racist side and started harassing #indigenous performers.
He wasn’t charged and the police closed the investigation. I swear, superbowl brings out so much racism toward Natives. I hope both teams lose this year lol!
AT THE INTERSECTION OF MAGIC AND THE EVERYDAY, this fluid and mythical tale traces the mourning journey of a Diné (Navajo) man across the colonized continent. Lovely and poetic prose rich with imagery. A MINUS
Navajo Nation objects to a plan to send human remains to the moon.
NPR reports the Peregrine Mission One includes "payloads from Celestis and Elysium, two companies that allow people to pay to send their loved ones' cremated remains into the cosmos."
The #Navajo Nation voices objection to obscenely rich private individuals placing #humanremains on the Moon:
'...the President of the Navajo Nation, Buu Nygren, has filed a formal objection with NASA and the U.S. Department of Transportation over what he calls an act of desecration. "It is crucial to emphasize that the moon holds a sacred position in many Indigenous cultures, including ours," Nygren wrote in a letter dated Dec. 21. "The act of depositing human remains and other materials, which could be perceived as discards in any other location, on the moon is tantamount to desecration of this sacred space." '
Fraîchement arrivée sur Polar+ / @mycanal , DARK WINDS est une série très intéressante à suivre.
1971, en territoire Navajo, un lieutenant de, la police tribale et son nouvel adjoint vont devoir combattre leurs démons pour résoudre une série de meurtres. Une série produite par Robert Redford et G.R.R. Martin.
🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 #tvshow#polar#thriller#navajo#natives#murders#robbery
Raise a fist high and smash a wall down tomorrow, but for tonight honor that Klee Benally has joined the ancestors. ✊🏼 A real #Indigenous warrior through and through.
We've been playing, sharing, and supporting Klee's work in one form or another on BvlbanchaRadio.net since the very beginning of our broadcasting. Our prayers are up for his spirit, family, friends, community, and all those affected by his extensive work.
On the #peyote crisis which threatens to appropriate and commodify #Diné sacred ways.
"There are no English words that describe how the spiritual character of peyote is inextricably intertwined with its hallucinogenic properties, the land where it grows and the Indigenous Americans who consume it, says Jones. In the Navajo language, Jones describes this harmonic oneness as azee’ hinááh biníłch’idiyin, be’adínídíín."
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park (5/13/2023). Monument Valley is part of the Colorado Plateau a geomorphic province of buttes, mesas, volcanoes, deep canyons, & stunning rock colors. Reds & oranges predominate in the geology of the region due to oxidation of the iron rich rocks. There are also numerous fossils, petrified forests, & enumerable cultural sites within the ~336,700km^2 province.
Why #Navajo is the world’s hardest language to learn
The tonal #NativeAmerican#language differentiates words based on #pitch and makes Spanish conjugation look like child’s play.
by Tim Brinkhof, November 27, 2023
"Concentrated in #Arizona and #NewMexico, the Navajo are one of the largest Native American groups in the United States. Consisting of up to 400,000 tribal members, they are thought to have originated from northwestern #Canada and were forcibly moved to their present location by the federal government in the 1860s during #TheLongWalk.
"Traditional Navajo families live in circular mud-and-log homes called hogans, create intricate ceremonial paintings made of sand, and hold four-day runs (a ritual called kinaalda) to celebrate young girls turning into adult women.
"Arguably, the most important aspect of Navajo culture is their language. Also known as #Diné#Bizaad (the “people’s language”), Navajo is similar to #Apache, from which it separated between 1300 and 1525 AD. Both Navajo and Apache belong to a language family called #Athabaskan, which, providing evidence for their geographic origin, is also spoken by native tribes in #Yukon, #Alaska, and #BritishColumbia. As with other Native American languages, #globalization and #discrimination threaten Navajo’s survival. In 2017, the number of fluent speakers was estimated at 170,000, less than half of the tribe’s population.
"Learning Navajo isn’t easy. Compared to other complicated but more widely spoken languages, like Korean or Arabic, there are limited resources available to non-speakers. Mastery of Navajo language also requires a level of familiarity with Navajo customs, something even some Indigenous people no longer have access to.
"That said, the most daunting aspect of learning Navajo is the language itself. Described by linguists Robert W. Young and William Morgan as a 'hopeless maze of irregularities,' its unique grammar, syntax, and tonal pronunciation are so indecipherable to outsiders that, during the Second World War, the American army used Navajo as a form of military code."
The Navajo Nation is the size of West Virginia and has only 180 officers to patrol the sprawling reservation. Axios writes about a new documentary titled “Navajo Police: Class 57,” which examines how the U.S.’s largest Indigenous tribe handles a police shortage. https://flip.it/0mTBPu #Culture#Film#Documentary#Navajo#Indigenous
"THERE is an abundance of reasons why it is folly to continue with building nuclear reactors.
"There is the cost which is huge compared with investing in more genuine sustainable energy. There is the problem with #RadioactiveWaste, for which there is no solution yet for the legacy waste, let alone producing more.
"There is the potential for attack: if wind turbines were attacked it would make for a difficult situation, but if a #NuclearReactor were to be sabotaged it would be the equivalent of a #NuclearBomb going off.
"And the latter also goes for a breakdown at a plant. We need to remember the effects of Chernobyl and Fukushima which continue to this day.
"Looking at #Britain, many of the nuclear reactors are sited on the coast and the proposed #SizewellC on the east coast. With #GlobalWarming, the sea level will rise and there is the chance of tidal surges with a threat to these reactors.
"But there is another factor which is never mentioned by the proponents of nuclear energy — the fuel used is uranium, and it will be in the future.
"This is mined mainly on the lands of indigenous people across the world. Countries and regions where uranium is mined include the land of the #FirstNations in Canada, the lands of the Navajo (Dine) in the southern United States, the land of the indigenous people of #Australia, Namibia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the DRC), Niger, Greenland and #Kazakhstan.
"The miners and their families have suffered over the years from mining this dangerous radioactive mineral in poor conditions, with illness and early death.
"In a recent statement printed in the Morning Star, the people of Niger (note this is not Nigeria but Niger, a former French colony) said that they were fed up, 'because for over 50 years, #France has relied on uranium from #Niger for its energy security. We know that French farmers were generously compensated when their land was requisitioned in the 1970s to build nuclear reactors. But for our people the mines have only meant dangerous working conditions, ill health, and historically poor remuneration.'
"From the #DRC, a former Belgian colony, Joe-Yves Salankang Sa Ngol, of the Congolese Civil society in South Africa, said: “Before the uranium would destroy life in #Japan referring to the nuclear bombs the US dropped on [#Hiroshima and #Nagasaki] it first started by destroying life in Shinkolobwe.'
"The #Shinkolobwe mine in the DRC was owned by a Belgian company which sold its first 4,200 metric tons of uranium to the US for the #ManhattanProject.
"Here is what #JoshuaFrank said in his book, #AtomicDays, about the conditions. “Paid very little, at times less than the minimum wage, these miners would enter deep uranium shafts and chip away at the walls, often 1,500 feet below the earth’s crust.
“They filled their wheelbarrows with the uranium ore, all the while choking on soot and dust particles. It was dark. There was no ventilation. It was tremendously difficult, perilous work. They ate in the mines and drank water that dripped from the walls. The water contained high quantities of radon — a radioactive gas emanating from the ore.”
"He continued: '#Radon exposure causes lung diseases, the dangers of which were well known to scientists and the medical community prior to World War II. But the Dine the [#Navajo] were deemed expendable.'
"And Frank also said: 'In addition to the impact on #Dine health, their land too was ravaged. Upwards of three billion metric tons of waste was created as a result of extraction on Dine lands, a dizzying amount to poison native communities throughout the south-west [of the US] to this day.'
"These, and many more stories of the same situation across the globe, show how supporters of nuclear power have turned a blind eye to the suffering of the miners and their families, not to mention the devastation done to their land.
"However, in different regions the local people are fighting back. For example, in #Greenland, in 2021, a ban on uranium came into force after the Inuit government’s successful election campaign.
"There had been a ban earlier, but this was then overturned in 2013. But with the indigenous #Inuit now in control of the government, the ban will probably hold.
"If we turn to Britain, there is no significant amount of uranium to be found and there is no commercial mining. So, Britain must import uranium from #Canada and #Namibia.
"No thought seems to have been given by the two main political parties which support new nuclear build, or the trade unions, or the media proponents of nuclear power, to the shameful history of uranium mining which will continue if new reactors are built. It has been called nuclear colonialism.
"Several recent reports show that there is no need for nuclear; 100 per cent genuine #renewables can provide Britain with enough energy.
"Supporters of nuclear power should think hard about their positions. Surely, for example, workers in Britain would want to act in solidarity with their mining comrades across the world?"
Growing up, #Navajo Times was the only paper I ever wanted to report for. I never thought I’d write for the Republic. I never thought Navajo news would be something the Republic would ever be interested in, glad I was wrong.
My Republic bylines from this week on Navajo Times, the articles are about Navajo. It’s pretty awesome. It’s not Thursday. It’s Navajo Times day.
Tatjana Patitz fue una supermodelo y actriz alemana que se dio a conocer en los años 1980 y 1990 al desfilar y figurar en revistas como Elle, Harper's Bazaar y Vogue. Patitz es una de las "cinco grandes" supermodelos que aparecen en el videoclip de 1990, "Freedom! '90" de George Michael, y está relacionada con la producción editorial y obras de los fotógrafos Herb Ritts y Peter Lindbergh.
► https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatjana_Patitz
El cañón del Antílope (del inglés: Antelope Canyon) es un cañón de ranura del Suroeste de Estados Unidos, uno de los más visitados y fotografiados del mundo. Está cerca de la ciudad de Page, en el condado de Coconino, en el norte del estado de Arizona. Este cañón está situado en una reserva de indígenas navajos. De hecho, las visitas a este cañón han de hacerse con un guía navajo.
La formación geológica se ha ido horadando debido al paso de corrientes de agua a través de un proceso de epigénesis (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epig%C3%A9nesis#Geomorfolog%C3%ADa) durante miles de años, y sus paredes llegan a alcanzar los 40 metros de altura en algunos puntos. Consiste en dos formaciones separadas, denominadas individualmente como "cañón del Antílope superior" y "cañón del Antílope inferior".