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Repost from @inspiring_handz By @voxdotcom •

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Centuries before we had American Sign Language, Native sign languages, broadly known as “Hand Talk,” were thriving across North America. Hand Talk would be influential in the formation of American Sign Language. But it has largely been written out of history.

One of these Hand Talk variations, Plains Indian Sign Language, was used so widely across the Great Plains that it became a lingua franca — a universal language used by both deaf and hearing people to communicate among tribes that didn’t share a common spoken language. At one point, tens of thousands of indigenous people used Plains Indian Sign Language, or PISL, for everything from trade to hunting, conflict, storytelling, and rituals.

But by the late 1800s, the federal government had implemented a policy that would change the course of indigenous history forever: a violent boarding school program designed to forcibly assimilate indigenous children into white American culture — a dark history that we’re still learning more about to this day.

Because of a forced “English-only” policy, the boarding school era is one of the main reasons we lost so many Native signers — along with the eventual dominance of ASL in schools for the deaf.

Today, there are just a handful of fluent PISL signers left in the US. In the piece above we hear from two of these signers who have dedicated their lives to studying and revitalizing the language. They show us PISL in action, and help us explore how this ancient language holds centuries of indigenous history.

#indigenous #indigenouslanguages #indigenoussignlanguages #youareonnativeland

The UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial

The UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) wrote a letter condemning “the Governments of Canada and of the Province of British Columbia for their use of force, surveillance, and criminalization of land defenders and peaceful protesters to intimidate, remove and forcibly evict Secwepemc and Wet’suwet’en Nations from their traditional lands, in particular by the RCMP, the Community-Industry Response Group (CIRG), and private security firms.”

In the letter, CERD “regrets” that Canada’s interpretation of the declaration is to “guarantee a process, but not a particular result.”... suggesting that Canada believes it can override a nation’s consent if it wants to, forcing projects on an Indigenous nation.
In December 2019, the Committee urged the State party to cease forced evictions.
CERD “profoundly regrets and is concerned” about the increased acts of Secwepemc and Wet’suwet’en peoples.

“In a recent interview, Wet’suwet’en hereditary Chief Namoks called the ongoing colonization of his nation a human rights issue that is being ignored and if land defenders didn’t protest, governments and businesses would ‘just steamroll through’.”

“You know what the largest and longest-running industry in Canada is, ever since Canada became a country? Indigenous people,” he said. “Ever since contact, they've been constantly under [government’s] thumb.

#YouAreOnNativeLand #UNCERD #landdefenders #indigenous #landback

We are ALL on Native Land. We all have a respons

We are ALL on Native Land.

We all have a responsibility to know about whose land we are on.
We all have a responsibility to know the Indigenous history of these lands.
We should all actively strive to be a part of a better future going forward.

#YouAreOnNativeLand #WeAreALLonNativeLand #LandBack #Indigenous

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