Winnemem Wintu Voice

Junipero Serra was NO SAINT!

He presided over a genocidal system of forced labor which decimated many of California’s tribes.

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Hello there! I’m Kamyren and I was born in Hawaii.

We all know how beautiful it is and how wonderful mother nature was to create such a place (mother nature has her favorites and Hawaii is one of them) 

but we need your help! 

This is Mauna Kea a dormant volcano on Hawaii. The University of Hawaii is the ones who look after the volcano, due to it’s height it’s a popular place for the college’s study of astronomy. Now though  they’re planning on adding another large telescope worth a billion dollars

The problem is though that they are doing it on sacred ground! Hawaiians have come now and protested the site when it was holding a groundbreaking ceremony because the Hawaiians believe that the sacred ground should be kept sacred! They gathered a peaceful protest which was then returned with arrests on the peaceful protesters.

Please please help! There is not a lot of coverage on this! They have already put so many telescopes on there and this would take even more land away . Please consider signing this petition and sharing the petition and this post. #wearemaunakea please don’t let my voice and the voices of so many others be silenced. 

Sign the petition here: 

https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.change.org%2Fp%2Fgovernor-david-y-ige-stop-tmt-construction-and-arrests-of-mauna-kea-protectors%3Frecruiter%3D270466896%26utm_source%3Dshare_petition%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dshare_email_responsive&h=7AQGZoa0j

Thank you! Mahalo mahalo mahalo! 

(None of these pictures are mine!) 

Sources: 

http://www.kitv.com/news/protesters-disrupt-mauna-kea-telescope-groundbreaking/28998256

http://www.civilbeat.com/2015/04/mauna-kea-telescope-protesters-arrested/

https://warriorpublications.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/a-day-after-arrests-mauna-kea-telescope-protest-grows/

Indigenous Feminist scholar blog to check out!

Support the Protectors of Mauna Kea!

Depicting one of the most notorious events in the early European trade with New Zealand, this painting demonstrates a turn-of-the-century focus on local history subjects to foster national identity in art. En route to Cape Town from Sydney in 1809, the Boyd anchored in Whangaroa Harbour, Northland, to load kauri spars and allow Māori passengers to disembark. Contemporary accounts suggest that the flogging of a rangatira during the voyage prompted the events that followed. The captain and crew were lured ashore and massacred, the ship was looted and an exploding barrel of gunpowder killed more people. The artist represents this dramatic moment in an image which successfully integrates two traditional subjects of European art - the battle at sea and the coastal landscape. By using a low viewpoint and placing the waka in the foreground, Wright enhances the impression of a ship under attack, a symbol of civilisation and Christianity succumbing to the dire forces of pagan savages. The symbolism of good and evil extends to the contrast between the Māori, who are shown in shadow, and the Boyd, in clear sunlight. Naturalistic rendering of detail and refined technique are characteristic of Wright and derive from his study at Heatherly’s in London and with Stanhope Forbes in Newlyn, Cornwall. (from The Guide, 2001)