On this day, 26 March 1953 Mau Mau guerrillas fighting British colonialism in Kenya attacked the Naivasha police station. They inflicted a humiliating defeat on the police and released 173 prisoners, many of them Mau Mau, from an adjoining detention camp. While the uprising was eventually crushed by mass repression and murder by British forces, independence was achieved just a few years later. This is a short history of the rebellion: https://ift.tt/2kbezAThttps://ift.tt/2I4qNWj
“California’s Forage Wars - In Mendocino County, these ‘guerilla gatherers’ risk fines and jail time to keep food culture alive”: Here’s an article on abalone, foraging, Indigenous rights, and local foods in the Klamath Mountains region and coastal northern California. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife, in 2014, banned abalone gathering before 8:00 AM. Then, due to non-Native poaching and over-harvest, California closed abalone gathering entirely from 2018 until 2021, preventing Indigenous peoples’ access to culturally important foods. Here are some excerpts. This article was written by Debra Utacia Krol, with photos by Rian Dundon, and published in September 2019.
For millennia, Pomo, Coast Yuki,
Sinkyone, Yurok and other Northern California tribes have sustainably
harvested mollusks, surf fish, seaweed, shells and medicines in the
summer, as well as acorns and other inland foods, Renick says. She
explains that each summer, after her Pomo band gathered their first
harvest, neighboring tribes, and even tribes as far away as Pit River – on
the east side of the Sacramento Valley – were invited to harvest. “When
they were done, we sent runners [to] Pit River and invited them to
gather,” says Renick.
[…]
Hillary Renick
hikes down scree and rocks worn smooth by waves to reach the sandy
beach below. The morning fog has receded, but the sky is still gray
along the Mendocino County coastline as Renick scrambles up, down, and
around Pomo village and nearby sites, where her people harvest
traditional foods and collect materials for regalia, such as shells.
“The rocky inlets are where the abalone hang out,” says Renick.
Renick, a citizen of the Sherwood
Valley Band of Pomo Indians, and her group of self-described “guerilla
gatherers,” are scouting Glass Beach in Fort Bragg for abalone, seaweed
and shells they use for food, regalia and ceremonies. “We like to say
we’re badass Indian women gathering under cover of darkness, crawling
under fences, over rocks, around no trespassing signs, and through the
mud to provide for funerals, feasts and celebrations,” Renick says—although men are also part of the group. […]
To Indigenous peoples living in the food deserts of Northern California, sea palm, tono – the Pomo word for some of the more common seaweed along the coast – and other such greens of the ocean don’t just hold cultural significance, they’re an important source of nutrition.
While the food cooks, the
conversation turns to more mundane concerns, and even some gossip. “It’s
pretty easy now with technology to figure out when the tide is right,”
says Shawn Padi, from the nearby Hopland Pomo community, as he looks out
over the waves. “A hundred years ago, you’d have to read the moon and
leave the valley three days ahead of time to walk over here and hit the
big tides.”
Talk soon turns to more serious
topics. Gensaw and Renick discuss how the Yuroks can bring abalone back
to their own diets, and of course, the law, and why the guerrilla
gatherers need to defy it.
Renick says when it comes to prohibitive state regulations, the solution is simple: “Change the laws.”
[Source: Debra Utacia Krol, Roads and Kingdoms, 17 Septmeber 2019.]
This gold death mask of Tutankhamun is an example of the highest artistic and technical achievements of the ancient Egyptians in the New Kingdom.
Covering the head of the wrapped mummy in its coffin and activated by a magical spell, no.151b from the Book of the Dead, the mask ensured more protection for the king’s body. The exact portrayal of the king’s facial features achieved here made it possible for his soul to recognize him and return to his mummified body, thus ensuring his resurrection.
The head is covered by the royal headdress and the forehead bears the emblems of kingship and protection: the vulture and uraeus, or cobra. The gold sheets used in this wonderful mask are joined together by heating and hammering. The eyes are of obsidian and quartz and the eyebrows and eyelids are inlaid with lapis lazuli. The broad inlaid collar of semiprecious stones and colored glass ends in falcon heads.
From the Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Valley of the Kings, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 60672.
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