Time For More Minority Groups To Step In & Create Similar Apps & Tech For The Sign Language Equivalents.

Time for more minority groups to step in & create similar apps & tech for the sign language equivalents.

Montreal

Indigenous sisters developing video games to revitalize Mohawk language

Two Kanien'keha:ka (Mohawk) sisters from Montreal are on a mission that is close to their hearts: to save their ancestors' first language by

Two Kanienʼkehá:ka (Mohawk) sisters from Montreal are on a mission that is close to their hearts: to save the language of their ancestors.

Kahentawaks and Wennekerakon Tiewishaw are from Kanesatake, about 40 minutes northwest of Montreal.

They learned to speak Kanienʼkéha (Mohawk language) in elementary school, but with few chances to practice, they ended up losing it.

"Our mother and father don't speak at all, but our grandmother and grandfather spoke fluently, but they didn't pass it on to their kids," said Wennekerakon. [...]

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The derived material is known as chiengora, & it turns out the Navaho (Navajo) also use chiengora & are quite significant culturally.

The Dogs That Grew Wool and the People Who Love Them | Hakai Magazine

Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest bred little, fluffy white dogs that provided for them, both materially and spiritually.

i saw this awesome tik tok today and it made me think of how many times i’ve encountered white progressives who dismiss this kind of storytelling as “non scientific” and therefore primitive unimportant. it made me think of how aboriginal australians have been telling the same stories for ten thousand years that turned out to be entirely accurate. jews have a similar oral tradition, though ours was written down when we were sent into the diaspora.

so what i really want white progressives to think about the next time you encounter someone talking about a creation myth or stories their ancestors told is that it’s very likely those stories hold historical and scientific truth. scientists frequently work with indigenous peoples to fill in the many gaps that western (colonial) history and knowledge has. so instead of thinking of yourself as superior to them because you have White People Science, thank them for keeping history alive. thank them for their contributions to modern science that most of them came up with centuries before white people did. and do your part to keep them alive in return. and yes this means land back and indigenous liberation.

not-so-friendly reminder that hunting is an important part of conservation in many cases and that painting all hunting as morally, ethically, and/or environmentally "bad" does a major disservice to indigenous people, poor communities, and our environment

"Walkable city" is not "City where to have to walk everywhere."

"Walkable city" is.

Sidewalks big enough to fit you, your stroller, your wheelchair, your guide dog, or anything else you need when you're getting from one place to another.

Safe crosswalks frequent enough so you don't need to walk in traffic.

Bike lanes to keep bikes out of foot traffic and car traffic.

Accessible and affordable public transit.

Cities where the essentials are close enough you can travel on foot (or in wheelchair)

Cities where it's reasonable to be able to get from point a to point b without requiring you, yourself, to drive

People get so caught up in the "Walkable" part of the term and like to spout "Walkable cities are abelist because not everyone can walk".

Bitch. The modern city structure is abelist because not everyone can drive. And classist because not everyone can afford a car and it's pretty damn impossible to get a job if you don't have a car.

Walkable cities are cities where people can reasonably get from pointA to pointB without requiring a motor vehicle.

"But fae. Disabled people have issues using the paths in modern cities." Bitch abled people can barely use the paths in modern cities. That's kind of the fucking problem.

Also walkable cities have fucking benches. Not only for disabled people. But sometimes you just twist your ankle and need to sit for a moment.

"Put fae. If you have benches, homeless people will sleep on them."

Then get fucking housing for the homeless. Problem solved. They'll sleep in their nice warm homes instead of on the benches.

-fae