[-empyre-] from Renate and Tim: on American Indian rights

[isabelle arvers]

Dear all,

I would like to show you some work in progress done in the calais jungle
following my previous post about what was happening in Calais - a city
world - done by the NGO with the help of all the communities of migrants.

It is said that the government is going to erase the south part of the
jungle where all the restaurants, churchs, shops, schools, kitchens, etc...
are setted up. It is supposed to be erased tomorrow.

Here are 3 videos - again work in progress - done through a game engine
with in situ interviews and pictures

Zimako interview is in french, he is the builder of the school, the 2
others are in english, the sound is not perfect, hope it will be somehow
interesting, regarding this month discussion.

Zimako, at the origin of the idea of a school and the school builder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3XVCvdlFcs

Marko, one of the jungle school builder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc-dWbP-KSw

Mohamed, representant of the sudanese community
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BOUkQvSx8Y

Isabelle

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2016-02-20 21:22 GMT+01:00 Cynthia Beth Rubin <cbr at cbrubin.net>:

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> Not exactly to the point, but perhaps of interest to some on this list,
> given this recent post by Renate and Tim
>
> an upcoming (free) event:
>
> Native Arts in New England Gathering
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> http://www.nefa.org/events/native-arts-new-england-gathering
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>
> Cynthia
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> On Feb 20, 2016, at 3:01 PM, Renate Terese Ferro <rferro at cornell.edu>
> wrote:
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> Ana, Murat and all,
> This discussion has been rich and varied and I thank all of you so much
> for sharing with us.  This post is prompted by Ana¹s commend below
> Ana Valdes wrote:
> <snip>
> Thank you Murat I think we are kind of stuck in these rethoric traps of
> "national states", "original people", "indigenous", etc. There are never
> ppl "born" in a place, there are ppl who settled down before others but
> that give them not right to claim any ownership.
> <snip>
>
> We are hoping that many subscribers from the Americas or perhaps Australia
> who might want to comment on this as well. We encourage them to do so.
>
> Where we live in upstate New York, nestled between the hills and lakes of
> Cayuga and Seneca Lakes, we recognize that the land that our white
> predecessors came to occupy was taken from the American Indian tribes that
> were the original inhabitants of the Americas. Many were killed by brutal
> battles that eventually stripped them of all of their land.
>
> The Cayuga Indians are part of the Haudenosaunee  or the Iroquois
> Confederacy.  The Confederacy is comprised of six Indian nations and the
> Cayuga is one of those.  Though American Indians have American citizenship,
> many identify instead as citizens of their own Indian nations.  There are
> complicated land claims issues between the Cayuga¹s and the United States
> government that have been unsettled in the courts for decades based on
> unsigned treaties by the United States Congress.  It is not uncommon as we
> travel from our home in Ithaca North along Cayuga Lake where obvious
> territorial disputes are marked by signage.
>
> Just a bit farther North of us, our neighbor, Canada, recognizes the
> "First Peoples of Canada."  We have many artistic friends in Australia
> whose work is dedicated to struggling for "aboriginal" and “indigenous
> peoples' rights."  We think it is very important that part of our alignment
> with these local and international movements is to adopt the language
> determined by them for preservation of their rights and lands.
>
> You can imagine that your comment Ana prompted us to think about these
> situations and that we do not regard these as rhetoric traps but instead
> legalities that have compromised the welfare of not only the Cayuga’s but
> many more of the Haudenosaunee confederacy in upstate New York.  Our
> neighbors at Syracuse University ritually have an Indian blessing at the
> beginning of every major event to thank the forefathers the American
> Indians.  Cornell University as a “land-grant” university complicatedly
> have chosen not to do this.
>
> We feel a very special kinship to our American Indian neighbors who we
> feel have every right to claim ownership.
>
> All our best,
>
> Renate and Tim
>
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> Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
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> On 2/19/16, 10:49 AM, "empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on
> behalf of Ana Valdés" <empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on
> behalf of agora158 at gmail.com> wrote:
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