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Indigenous Food Reciprocity as a Model for Mutual Aid For centuries, Native communities have focused on the collective rather than the individual. Here’s what we can learn from them.

For centuries, Native communities have focused on the collective rather than the individual. Here’s what we can learn from them.

03.03.2025 15:01 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Black and white photo of Elizabeth Peratrovich, a woman with flawless skin, elegant earrings, dark hair and eyes. "Asking you to give me equal rights implies that they are yours to give. Instead I must demand that you stop trying to deny me the rights all people deserve." Born in 1911, she was an equal rights advocate for all Alaska Natives and helped pass the first anti-discrimination law in the US

Elizabeth Peratrovich quote: "I would not have expected that I, who am barely out of 'savagery', would have to remind gentlemen with five thousand years of recorded civilization behind them, of our bill of rights." Cartoon of Tlingit woman draped in a red shawl with a raven on it, her hair in a red bandana, posed with her arm flexed. Alaska scene behind her with a bill dozer, signs including one that says HB77

Happy Elizabeth Peratrovich Day! Ḵaax̱gal.aat (1911–1958), who was Raven of the Tlingit Lukaax.ádi clan, gave a moving speech that is believed to be a large reason the first civil rights bill for Alaska Natives was passed in 1945. Read more about her here:

archives.alaska.gov/education/pe...

16.02.2025 18:35 — 👍 282    🔁 124    💬 5    📌 4

Seriously, free busses for everyone to DC to be heard in mass. Somehow, getting everyone who can't make the trip get on board with some sort of massive strike/economic shutdown??? I don't know, but we have to try something. Obviously, no one is coming in to save the day.

16.02.2025 23:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0