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

Tue Feb 23 04:09:19 AEDT 2016

Hi
Here is a petition against the destruction of Calais'"jungle":
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/les-invites-de-mediapart/blog/220216/calais-les-bulldozers-ne-font-pas-une-politique
Best,
Frederic Neyrat

2016-02-22 4:01 GMT-06:00 isabelle arvers <iarvers at gmail.com>:

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> 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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>> 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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