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Juneteenth: A Journey from Then to Now

From Behind the Pen

Image Credit: Linnaea Mallette

When I began researching my family tree, there was so much of the past, many unanswered questions that I am not sure I will ever uncover the answers to them. While I achieved a lot regarding education and my exposure to things my ancestors never experienced, I realize they were exposed to horrifying treatment and made sacrifices I could never fathom. I do not take my gratitude for granted. Looking back, I realize that my freedom is not free because a huge price was paid by those who came before me, whether they were family or not.

It’s rather sad to witness some who have expressed eliminating the discussion of pivotal historical events that may not have occurred in the most positive light. They believe that people need to get over it and stop discussing it by rewriting more sanitized versions or completely eliminating certain parts…

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Decolonizing conservation: Seven principles

Darcy Hitchcock

The western view of conservation has been to protect the land from people. But what Ken Burns referred to as America’s Best Idea, our National Parks, involved expelling native people from their own lands, lands that they had stewarded and protected for centuries.

Photo taken by Dale Graham on our 2019 trip to the Great Bear Rainforest

The conservation field is changing, realizing that working with indigenous peoples can improve outcomes for nature as well as the people (who are part of nature). Work in the Great Bear Rainforest has led to seven principles for a collaborative approach. These are explained in a recent article:

“Decolonial Model of Environmental Management and Conservation: Insights from Indigenous-led Grizzly Bear Stewardship in the Great Bear Rainforest.”

Seven tenets

  • (1) Stewardship of resources is inseparable from the Rights, Title, Responsibilities, self-determination, and sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples
  • (2) Practitioners steward interconnections among species, people, and…

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Why Emancipation, Parenting, and Education All Matter on Day 16/67

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

   First of all, no one can be free in any way without legal freedom, from the first Compensated Emancipation in DC,  which had long been celebrated as Emancipation Day on April 16th, with a parade, EmanDayDC even, through the early 1900s or so, in The District, to the final end of that process, for areas in rebellion to the Union, on Juneteenth in Texas, although most border states like Maryland, which had remained part of the Union, had also emancipated slaves, except for Delaware and Kentucky.  Slaves in those states had to wait until ratification of the 13th Amendment.
(src: The Washington Post)
      Then, no one can be entirely free of self-doubts without a loving, respectful, and supportive father.
    Finally, no one can be wholly free to expand and thrive without education of various types.
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♫ Ain’t No Mountain High Enough ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

Since today is Juneteenth,  I thought it only appropriate to play some Motown — in my book some of the best music produced in the U.S.!  Of course, since I feature Motown songs and artists pretty often in these posts, I’ve already played most of my favourites at one point or another … some of […]

♫ Ain’t No Mountain High Enough ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

Understanding Juneteenth (Reprise) — Filosofa’s Word

This is the post I posted on Juneteenth in 2020, but since I couldn’t say it any better today than I did then (actually, Jamelle Bouie did most of the work on this) then I thought it apropos to run it again. Today is Juneteenth, and I would like to start with a few words […]

Understanding Juneteenth (Reprise) — Filosofa’s Word

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The Amazon Rainforest and Indigenous Forest Peoples in Peril! – a series of short films by Barbara Crane Navarro – 6 – « Totemic Sculptures – Grace …