from TreeTV / N2K Need to Know:

' This short film is part of 8 short, testimonial films, on the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois.) The Iroquois are embarking on an historic project about the 500-year history of the Iroquois, their relationship with Europe and America and their prophesies that, if heard, can help us navigate the oncoming changes due to climate change. This series of short films is done via their testimony, and creates the space for the Iroquois to tell their story as they strive to uphold the traditions and the legacy of their people while also protecting the central tenents of their people and their relationship and care for the Earth. '

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iVziGHPhVw

' This series was created by Tree Media in collaboration with Oren Lyons, Sid Hill and the Haudenosaunee. This series was created with the support of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and with the support of Executive Producer Oliver Stanton. For more information: http://www.digitalwampum.org and http://www.treemedia.com '

“Here is an incomplete list of things I left unfinished last week because America’s boiling racism and militarization are deadly for black people: a policy memo to members of Congress on accelerating offshore wind energy development in U.S. waters; the introduction to my book on climate solutions; a presentation for a powerful corporation on how technology can advance ocean-climate solutions; a grant proposal to fund a network of women climate leaders; a fact check of a big-budget film script about ocean-climate themes, planting vegetables with my mother in our climate victory garden.”
https://www.facebook.com/2476002272417424/posts/4725559894128306

' Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy advisor, and Brooklyn native. She is founder and CEO of the consultancy Ocean Collectiv, founder of the non-profit think tank Urban Ocean Lab and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology "All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis." '
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/03/im-black-climate-scientist-racism-derails-our-efforts-save-planet

Kanyon Consulting LLC writes,

' The person who laid this out, Seerut K. Chawla (IG: @seerutkchawla-- see also the center of the slides), she deserves the Nobel Prize for this. It is simple, but I don’t think people know this is what they are doing. And the effects of some of these can be quite devastating. Being an Authentic Ally is not easy I am sure but neither is being a POC. We welcome all of those willing to do the work. 🙏🏽🙏🏽

#WhiteSpirituality #WhiteFragility #privilege #allyship #weaponization #weaponizedfragility #performativeallyship #authenticallyship '

https://www.facebook.com/2476002272417424/posts/4735796999771262

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' "Ultimately our work as Indigenous researchers is not primarily a matter of convincing non-Indigenous peoples of our right to exist as Indigenous peoples nor of convincing them of the worth of our ways and of our scholarship, although such resistance to colonialism certainly matters. Rather, our task is to produce knowledge that makes sense in terms of our lived realities, experiences and challenges. Research must be of practical value first and foremost to our communities. Any other considerations of research are simply secondary to this primary concern for us. In other words, we are not ‘doing’ social science for the sake of doing social science but as part of our struggles to decolonize our existence and move towards liberation."

-Aileen Moreton-Robinson, George Sefa Dei and Makere Stewart-Harawira, in "Unspeakable Things: Indigenous Research and Social Sciences."

The world has forced Indigenous youth to get a college degree, "or else." Or else you won't have respect, you won't have money, you won't be able to care for a family, you won't be intelligent. At the VERY SAME TIME, we are forced to lose our souls in the pursuit of this degree. We get caught up in gaining approval from a colonial paradigm dictated to us by those who seek our conquest. The truth remains, at this point in time, many of us lose mobility or ability to alter our world without these dang degrees. One loophole here is creating Indigenous programs of study of, for and by Indigenous peoples. Places where we create our own degrees, our own standards, our own research objectives, to gain the approval of none other than the ancestors, while still gaining "marketable" skills that can contribute greatly to society. Still, the ideal would be to create a world where we don't need these "degrees" period. But could this be a good stepping stone for the time being? Regardless, if you are a native youth caught in the university system, remember you can use that as a tool for your liberation and it's okay to settle for nothing less. '

https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2382429118730998&id=1573085966331988