An installation and a documentary about the notorious residential school system amplify calls to define such deaths worldwide as genocide
indigenous people
Posted inEquality, Lifestyle
The paradox of customary marriages
Just because they are performed differently from civil unions does not mean they don’t come with the same responsibilities — people just don’t know it
Posted inNews/Politics
South Africa’s indigenous people have agency
The River Club development gives the First Nations an opportunity and a platform to share their heritage with the world and a steady place from which to fight further battles
Posted inGeneral, News/Politics
Enough, already, with the ‘you stole our land’ argument
Last week, archaeologists unearthed a seal impression bearing the inscription “Belonging to Hezekiah [son of] Ahaz king of Judah” near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Hezekiah — Chiskiya HaMelech — is revered in Judaism as having been one of the most righteous of the Jewish monarchs. His father was considerably less righteous. Both, though, were Jewish kings […]
Posted inEnvironment
The white-throated needletail and passing of precious things
I recently travelled to the picturesque town of Hamilton, New Zealand, through which the ethereally beautiful Waikato River courses, a body of water deemed sacred to the Maori people who refer to it as a tupuna (ancestor), a taonga (treasure), and a mauri (life force). Featuring in the headlines of this far-off place were regular […]