This reminds me of the indigenous reserves in northern Brazil. One of these reserves, the “Raposa do Sol Indigenous Land”, is quite large, something that makes a lot of people very nervous and some with a lot of hatred in the country. Conspiracy theories involving indigenous secession and the American invasion run rampant, but they are almost all originated and propagated on the right side of the political field. Even with their rights guaranteed by law, indigenous people suffer from criminal activities, invasions and proselytism of just one religion.
I don’t know if this should be here, or in ACAB (but one shows hope).
TL;DR: the Police Commissioner of the Northern Territory went to Garma Festival (an annual gathering of Australian First Nations), and gave an apology for the failings of the NT Police since its founding and up to now and beyond, against aboriginal people. He also pledged to do better in the future.
The NT Police Union disavowed his speech and the concept of there being anything to apologise for.
So he quit the Police Union.
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What a genome reveals about an extinct breed of dogs — and the Indigenous people who cared for them
The woolly dog was a breed that lived alongside Indigenous Coast Salish people in the Pacific Northwest for thousands of years. One of the reasons they were kept was for their fur — so thick and luxurious that it could be spun into yarn. But the dogs and the artifacts woven from their fur, like blankets, were victims of European settler authorities attempting to erase Indigenous culture, and they quickly went extinct. The only known remaining wooly dog specimen was misplaced in the archives at the Smithsonian for over a hundred years, and only recently uncovered.
The individual segments don’t seem to be working right now. If not, the whole program is here, FF to 44:01:
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