https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc en-us 2021-09-14 15:51:48 UTC 2025-11-10 16:48:46 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f40c.png https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1744242733 "Can they, can we all, understand the Skywoman story not as an artifact from the past but as instructions for the future?" (Kimmerer 9, 2013). Origin stories lay the foundation of our relationships and define our responsibility to the land.]]> 2021-09-16 00:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1744242733 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1763727057 Following the disappearing of Gabby Petito, a message went viral on social media to pull attention towards the hundreds of Indigenous people that have also gone missing over the last decade in Wyoming. The silencing of cries for help and reports of Native lives being lost is a continuation of the "vanishing Indian" narrative. If people fail to acknowledge the existence of Native peoples outside of a historical context, then their lives (and direct harms) will continue to be ignored.]]> 2021-09-23 17:53:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1763727057 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1767723173 Alcatraz holds a special part of me as land that is from my home. It hosts the same trees and shrubs as are in my backyard and sits above the water that I swim in every day in the summer. But I have grown up knowing Alcatraz as a spooky reminder of its incarcerated past. It's a tourist attraction, a Hollywood icon, and a built landmark. What I only learned about recently was its history as an essential place of the Red Power movement where Native peoples occupied the island in 1969-1971. However, it still remains one of the primary sources of income for San Francisco's tourism industry. I am curious to explore the relationship between Native land rights and colonization and incarceration in the U.S., and the Golden Gate Parks Conservancy's response to it. ]]> 2021-09-25 19:48:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1767723173 https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1894680274 Using Daniel R. Wildcat's analysis in Red Alert, we can see that removal has appeared in waves throughout history. It has arisen as "geographic, social, and psycho-cultural" and is now taking its most modern form via climate change. Climate change impact are causing forced removal on tribes from their threatened lands and if federal agencies continue to ignore these harms, Indigenous voices will continue to be erased. The lack of acknowledgment of these real harms perpetuate the false narrative of Native American tribes vanishing into history.]]> 2021-11-16 16:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1894680274 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1925735971 2021-12-02 17:41:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1925735971 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1925740106 The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy creates a page that attempts to recognize the Ohlone people, those who originally inhabited the land that includes Alcatraz Island. They do so by sharing an experience in which they encouraged participants to engage in traditional Ohlone games and stories, highlighting a non-Native park ranger's conservation efforts, accumulating "inspiring" environmental quotes by Native leaders, and hosting dialogues between the parks and indigenous voices. One article, unfortunately, is titled "Remembering the Ohlone, then and now". Additionally, the site overall places indigenous knowledge in the position of an environmental savior. ]]> 2021-12-02 17:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1925740106 https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1925860263 Case study of Kivalina, AK - along with others that we viewed in class - that follows my previous assessment of erasure from Daniel R. Wildcat.]]> 2021-12-02 18:42:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1925860263 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1925889363 Whose hands? Does the boy illustrated represent the targeted audience? This post is an example of individualizing the climate crisis and distributing the responsibility away from the large corporations that must be held responsible, as well as forest management agencies (like Smokey) that claim to be the knowledge keepers of forest care. ]]> 2021-12-02 18:57:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1925889363 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1925899515 One of the top comments says, "Keep them public and keep them natural forever" - @treeguy657]]> 2021-12-02 19:02:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1925899515 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929928191 Carolyn Finney speaks at Middlebury College about the history of conservationism in the United States leading to inaccessibility of parks and natural spaces to non-white folks. She tells a personal narrative regarding relationship to land and emphasizes how different minority groups struggle to practice their own relationships with the earth under the systems of colonialism that have stolen and assumed control over land.]]> 2021-12-05 21:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929928191 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929932819 Organizations that arose out of white conservationist theory should be, and are now finally being, forced to the forefront of facing this history along with its consequences.]]> 2021-12-05 21:44:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929932819 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929941096 Muir Woods rangers doing the necessary work of uncovering the Parks' racist history. Especially the specific identification of the Parks founders' leading role in the American eugenics movement is extremely important.]]> 2021-12-05 21:57:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929941096 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929949238 In the Wyoming Law Review, Volume 11 (2011), Robert J. Miller thoroughly lays out the history of land possession in the United States, which is very helpful in understanding why American settlers assume ownership over land and, therefore, control land management in the United States. ]]> 2021-12-05 22:11:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929949238 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929952200 On the Karuk Tribe's official website, they describe the ancestral and ecological important of prescribed burning. It is very important to hear from indigenous voices who have been practicing prescribed burning for centuries and understand the productive use of fire and its preventative benefits - as opposed to the no-burn methods of many federal forest management agencies. The fact that they often can't practice their burning methods without breaking the law is also a clear example how differing worldviews and political altercations surrounding national sovereignty and Indian treaty rights result in harmful climate impacts on tribal communities.]]> 2021-12-05 22:17:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929952200 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929962398 This Youtube video, posted by Cheryl Tuttle (Yurok Tribe), explains the ways in which tending to land through fire management is a vital piece Karuk heritage. And additionally that the hostile relationship between tribe and U.S. government is threatening the tribe's futurity.]]> 2021-12-05 22:34:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929962398 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929967806 Kari Marie Norgaard, who spoke at Swarthmore via Zoom in the course that we visited (Oct. 26), holds a discussion with Ron Reed (Karuk scholar, cultural biologist, and fisherman) in which they speak to, "the importance of fire for Karuk tribal culture, health, food, and sovereignty" and "the history of settler colonial fire suppression practices and its ongoing impacts on Indigenous communities. Reed argues for the need to center place-based, Indigenous ecology model."]]> 2021-12-05 22:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929967806 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929971103 This collaborative was founded by Ron Reed (Karuk), and two University of California Berkeley professors, Jennifer Sowerwine and Tom Carlson. It is a hopeful and promising initiative to make connections between Karuk knowledge and western scientific knowledge in order to get students of higher education institutions engaged in "cultural resource management". Projects like these are what allow worldviews to intersect in order to (hopefully) challenge the dominance of suppressing federal legislation.]]> 2021-12-05 22:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929971103 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929977558 Klamath National Forest in Northern California]]> 2021-12-05 22:59:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929977558 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929979158 Aerial photography of the Happy Camp Fire approaching, and soon to tear through, Karuk land and homes.]]> 2021-12-05 23:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929979158 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929982154 Forced evacuation as well as failure to prevent and prepare tribes for wildfires is, like Kivalina, AK, a method of removal and erasure. Most often, tribal families are also unable to rebuild or receive little to no resources for rebuilding and safety, causing land and cultural devastation. ]]> 2021-12-05 23:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1929982154 https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1934029014 This piece is widely known as the symbol of westward expansion and manifest destiny, which is the settler worldview that it is the divine right for white anglo colonizers to claim ownership of any land not already occupied by a another white settler (from the Doctrine of Discovery).]]> 2021-12-07 16:45:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1934029014 https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1934044823 On my run this morning, a recent (earlier this summer) podcast came up on my news feed regarding the discovery of old residential schools for Canadian Native children, along with the bodies of many of those children who disappeared. This devastating story brought forward the horror of what really occurred during that era of psycho-cultural removal. ]]> 2021-12-07 16:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1934044823 https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1934145336 The following was a paper presented by Rosemary Cambra, invited panalist and chair of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe during last October's 30th anniversary of Alcatraz. by Alan Leventhal (Tribal Ethnohistorian), Hank Alvarez (Tribal Councilman), Monica Arellano (Tribal Councilwoman), Carolyn M. Sullivan (Tribal Councilwoman), Concha Rodriguez (Tribal Councilwoman), and Rosemary Cambra (TribalChair).]]> 2021-12-07 17:35:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1934145336 https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1934148439 2021-12-07 17:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1934148439 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1939420985 2021-12-10 01:14:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1939420985 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1939455386 2021-12-10 01:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1939455386 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1939569962 2021-12-10 02:49:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1939569962 https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1941236178 2021-12-11 00:16:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1941236178 https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1941237743 Another tribe facing removal via climate change. Their home website refers to history, culture, and Hurricane Ida recovery as well as emergency response info.]]> 2021-12-11 00:19:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1941237743 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1941246924 I created this podcast in the fall of 2020 for my final project in ENVS 203 with Dr. Sara Grossman. It is about this topic of the history of conservationism in America and the racist methodologies that went behind it. If you cannot access on Padlet and are interested in listening, I am happy to send it over via email.]]> 2021-12-11 00:30:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1941246924 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1941254936 Although there are thousands of resources now circulating on the #NoDAPL fight at Standing Rock, this was one of the first videos I saw of Tara Houska explaining what had been going on there in 2018. Standing Rock is a perfect example of an environmental justice fight that, because those being oppressed are American Indians, is bigger than just environmental harm but also is a battle between governments and for sovereignty. ]]> 2021-12-11 00:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1941254936 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1941261243 2021-12-11 00:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1941261243 ltanel https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1941263534 A photo of Penn Treaty Park in Philadelphia, along the Delaware River, where the Penn Treaty Elm still stands at the location the the first treaty between the newly independent United States and the Lenape people was signed. A symbol of what treaty significance should have meant, but was from then on neglected.]]> 2021-12-11 00:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ltanel/rek9lkcfzo2fxxcc/wish/1941263534