Well it turns out we have 3 open positions that I should tell you about:
- #Assimilation of #GNSS-R to improve the land surface (in the same team as me)
- Assimilation of #CIMR in the coupled system looking at the ocean (we've already started preparing for the sea ice part; on the #ESA #DANTEX project I'm involved in)
- A climate reanalysis scientist looking after the quality of #ERA6

https://jobs.ecmwf.int/Home/Job

Get in touch!

#FediJobs #ScienceJobs #Hiring

(Bonus section head job available if you fancy it!)

#Auspol #Assimilation

as desperate politicians try to whip up resentment of <welcome to country> let’s not forget only 43% of australians identify as christian, but politicians still meaninglessly chant the lord’s prayer in our parliament

3/4 of the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous in this country can be explained by the idea of assimilation, which refuses to hide in the cupboard where it belongs. it’s the arrogance of presuming to know what’s best for others…

<<The Australian states gathered together in 1961 to formally define the policy of assimilation, which could be interpreted as people-strictly-the-same-as-us are great, people-not-the-same are shit; aren’t we kind to help them be more like us?
The expectation Indigenous people should want desperately to be more like people they had no reason to trust or respect is unfathomable.>>

So schnell kann's gehen: wo die Pressemitteilung der sächsischen Staatskanzlei noch von sorbischen und anderen #Trachten aus #Sachsen spricht, verkürzt #FahrgastTV in der Dresdner Straßenbahn einfach zu "sächsischen" Trachten.
Das ist der niedersorbischen Tracht als "Spreewaldtracht" in den 30ern auch schon mal passiert und bis heute nicht korrigiert. Was mit der niedersorbischen Sprache passiert ist, ist bekannt.
Ich sag's bloß.
#Assimilation
#serbja
#sorben

"#Assimilation, as Gerson Cohen taught, was not always a curse. Sometimes, it has been a blessing. #Judaism has always been open to what the world is learning and saying. It has fallen to every generation of #Jews to determine how much openness is necessary, and how much is too much.

But this thing about accusing the Jew who disagrees with you of being a self-hating Jew — it is no longer helpful, or necessary.

We can do better. We can argue much, much better."

https://religionnews.com/2024/12/26/hanukkah-judaism-jewish-identity-assimilation/

#Oregon tribe has hunting and fishing rights restored under a long-sought court ruling

November 27, 2024

LINCOLN CITY, Ore. (AP) — "Drumming made the floor vibrate and singing filled the conference room of the Chinook Winds Casino Resort in Lincoln City, on the Oregon coast, as hundreds in tribal regalia danced in a circle.

"For the last 47 years, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians have held an annual powwow to celebrate regaining federal recognition. This month’s event, however, was especially significant: It came just two weeks after a federal court lifted restrictions on the tribe’s rights to hunt, fish and gather — restrictions tribal leaders had opposed for decades.

"'We’re back to the way we were before,' Siletz Chairman Delores Pigsley said.
'It feels really good.'

"The Siletz is a confederation of over two dozen bands and tribes whose traditional homelands spanned a large swath of what is now western Oregon. The federal government in the 1850s forced them onto a reservation on the Oregon coast, where they were confederated together as a single, federally recognized tribe despite their different backgrounds and languages.

"The Siletz is a confederation of over two dozen bands and tribes whose traditional homelands spanned a large swath of what is now western Oregon. The federal government in the 1850s forced them onto a reservation on the Oregon coast, where they were confederated together as a single, federally recognized tribe despite their different backgrounds and languages.

“The goal was to try and assimilate Native people, get them moved into cities,” said Matthew Campbell, deputy director of the Native American Rights Fund. 'But also I think there was certainly a financial aspect to it. I think the United States was trying to see how it could limit its costs in terms of providing for tribal nations.'

"Losing their lands and self-governance was painful, and the tribes fought for decades to regain federal recognition. In 1977, the Siletz became the second tribe to succeed, following the restoration of the Menominee Tribe in Wisconsin in 1973.

"In the 1950s and ‘60s, Congress revoked recognition of over 100 tribes, including the Siletz, under a policy known as 'termination.' Affected tribes lost millions of acres of land as well as federal funding and services.

"But to get a fraction of its land back — roughly 3,600 acres (1,457 hectares) of the 1.1-million-acre (445,000-hectare) reservation established for the tribe in 1855 — the Siletz tribe had to agree to a federal court order that restricted their hunting, fishing and gathering rights. It was only one of two tribes in the country, along with Oregon’s Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, compelled to do so to regain tribal land."

Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/siletz-oregon-tribal-rights-powwow-restoration-ee2c9fd73c372298aa4d505e3c992761

#ColonialCrimes : World #Map of #Justice Initiatives.

“Don’t portray us as a band of beggars coming to demand reparation. […] I think the Europeans have obligations to us, like all the unfortunate, but especially to us for harms that they caused. That is what I call reparation.” These words of Aimé Césaire, renowned Martinican author of “Discourse on Colonialism”, still resonate everywhere in the world 71 years after they were published.

The issue concerns 70% of the world’s population, either as a citizen of a colonizing country or as one of the colonized, according to French #history professor Bouda Etemad, author of the book “Crimes and Reparations, the West faced with its colonial past”. The colonized and their descendants, he writes, have the right to demand #reparation from the #European powers for the harms these States committed over a period of 500 years, from the “discovery” of #America by Christopher #Colombus to independence in the second half of the 20th century. Forced labour, slavery, persecution, executions, extermination, bombardments, looting and forced cultural #assimilation: the list is long of violent #abuses that accompanied #colonization in #Africa, the Near East, #Asia, the Americas, #Oceania and northern #Europe.

This special focus concentrates on the period known as the “second #colonial empire” which from 1815 marked the new #expansionism of the Western powers until the wave of independence in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/78677-colonial-crimes-world-map-justice-initiatives.html

Film: #MohawkMothers Taking Message to #SupremeCourtOfCanada

Posted on October 17, 2024, #MohawkNationNews

"The Mohawk Mothers and the Independent Special Interlocutor For #MissingChildren and #UnmarkedGraves and Burial Sites Associated with Indian #ResidentialSchools went officially to #Ottawa to deliver an application to the Supreme Court of Canada in the case against #SocieteQuebecoisesDesInfrastructure, #McGillUniversity, #RoyalVictoriaHospital, City of #Montreal Attorney General of Canada and Attorney General of Quebec. No. 500-09-030847-248 SCM No. 500-17-120468-221. They made a public declaration on the steps of the Supreme Court of Canada at 1.00 pm on Oct. 16, 2024 which is covered in the following film..."

Link to original post and videos:
https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/10/17/film-mohawk-mothers-taking-message-to-supreme-court-of-canada/

#IndianResidentialSchools #TruthAndReconciliation #FirstNations #FirstNationsCanada #TeiohatehTwoRow #Kahnistensera #SupremeCourtOfCanada #NativeAmericanGenocide #Genocide
#StolenChildren #ResidentialSchools
#Assimilation #ChildAbuse

#Kahnistensera / #MohawkMothers File in #SupremeCourtOfCanada in Search for #UnmarkedGraves of Their Children

Posted on October 15, 2024, Mohawk Nation News

"After the 'opening words that come before' at the rally, these were the words of a Mohawk #KnowledgeKeeper: 'We find ourselves in the ongoing violation of the #TeiohatehTwoRow, which is the agreement made between us in the beginning of our relationship. We have tried to alert the #Crown that there is a violation going on which places both of us in rough waters. Today we stand in front the Supreme Court of Canada facing a political violation by the people of #Canada that we wish to discuss so that we may get #justice"

Source and videos:
https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/10/15/mohawk-mothers-file-in-supreme-court-of-canada-oct-15-24/

For the moment, we can set aside how deeply ingrained anti-Blackness, the color class hierarchy throughout Spanish- and Portuguese- speaking cultures throughout the Americas and Caribbean that can make life a nightmare for those of us with dark skin and African and or Indigenous features.

You don't need a degree to understand the psychology of implicit racial conversion; the immigrant assimilation of “whiteness” as the default norm, mirrors the psychology of religious conversion.

Nobody is more Catholic than the newly converted!

Paola Ramos Explains the Rise of the Latino Far Right and Growing Anti-Immigrant Sentiments
#History, #Latino, #AfroLatino, #Identity, #Immigration, #Assimilation, #white
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fKyYPQauZ4

Vous voulez le texte de l'exposition Dé/raciné-e ?

https://blogs.mediapart.fr/gheyme/blog/070924/deracine-e

Un récit sur le processus de déracinement qu'un enfant d'immigré-es peut vivre ; notamment lorsqu'on nous pousse à s'assimiler au pays d'accueil de nos parents.

Species 9647: #dog
Your technological distinctiveness will be added to our own.
This will be deployed by the litter tray drones.
Resistance is futile, #assimilation by the #cat #collective is inevitable.

@Kierkegaanks

We prefer a different verb, but yes.
--Hugh

Norway’s Treatment of Sámi Indigenous People Makes a Mockery of Its Progressive Image

By Martine Aamodt Hess

March 13, 2023

"On March 1, global media outlets reported that #GretaThunberg had been arrested in #Oslo while protesting #WindTurbines. It wasn’t that the #ClimateActivist had suddenly taken a stand against renewable energy. Rather, she had joined forces with #activists standing up for #IndigenousPeople ’s plea to be able to continue practicing their culture in #Fosen, central #Norway. For hundreds of years, this land has been home to #ReindeerHerders — an important tradition, which helps preserve the Sámi’s endangered language. Yet today, the siting in Fosen of wind turbines, which frighten the reindeer, puts its continuation in doubt.

"Some five hundred days ago, #Norway’s supreme court ruled that the turbines are a violation of #IndigenousRights under international conventions. Yet they are still running even now — and indeed, even after the ebbing of the short-lived news attention surrounding Thunberg’s role in the protest. Once again, the Norwegian government has proven that it remains indifferent to Sámi lives.

"'What’s happening in Norway doesn’t surprise me — [there’s] this double standard of working to protect #indigenous groups around the world and presenting itself as this #progressive nation, yet not giving a shit about the indigenous people living within its own borders,' Elle Rávdná Näkkäläjärvi tells me. Between reindeer herding and her studies, the twenty-two-year-old is the leader of the Sámi Parliament’s youth committee and is a board member of the Norwegian Sámi Association youth group. During the recent eight days of protest in Oslo, she stood arm in arm with her Sámi sisters and brothers. “We are used to it but that doesn’t make it any less unjust. It’s about time Norway drops the mask. It’s about time the rest of the world sees Norway for what it really is,' she says.

"From the outside looking in, the Scandinavian country is often seen as a progressive social democracy. But — as Elle’s comments suggest — a story far less told is that of its #colonial past, also striking at indigenous people in Norway itself."

Read more:
https://jacobin.com/2023/03/norway-sami-indigenous-people-reindeer-herding-wind-turbines-dispossession-protest

For many #NativeAmericans, embracing #LGBT members is a return to the past

By Katherine Davis-Young
March 29, 2019

"#TwoSpirit, an umbrella term for #NonBinary definitions of gender and sexuality from #NativeAmerican traditions, takes inspiration from terminology in the #Ojibwe language for men who filled women’s roles in society, or women who took on men’s roles. Many of North America’s #indigenous traditions include more than just male and female understandings of gender, but hundreds of years of forced #assimilation stamped out many tribes’ customs and oral traditions. Two-Spirit powwows are part of a growing movement among Native Americans who say rigid ideas of gender and sexuality are unfortunate remnants of #colonization — participants say it’s time to rethink native identities on their own terms."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-many-native-americans-embracing-lgbt-members-is-a-return-to-the-past/2019/03/29/24d1e6c6-4f2c-11e9-88a1-ed346f0ec94f_story.html

The #Lakota #GhostDance and the Massacre at #WoundedKnee

How the American drive to force Indian assimilation turned violent on the plains of South Dakota.

April 16, 2021 | Louis S. Warren

"For Americans, then, the challenge of #assimilation was the great social question whirling at the center of the Ghost Dance of 1890. A millennial enthusiasm for assimilating others, as well as a deep anxiety that they might refuse to be assimilated, explains much of what made the Ghost Dance so troubling. To most #WhiteAmericans, the dance itself was proof that assimilation had failed to dampen the savage impulse and that America’s irresistible conquest might prove resistible after all. In this light, the dances in South Dakota were more than just dances, and more than another Indian uprising. For Americans, something more, much more, was on the line."

Read more:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/american-oz-lakota-ghost-dance-massacre-wounded-knee/

#Resistance #Genocide #CivilDisobedience #NativeAmericanHistory #WoundedKneeMassacre #NeverForgetWoundedKnee
#Genocide #IndianWars

#Norway truth commission details country's dark history of #assimilation

'Norway does not have a history to be proud of' on minority rights, commissioner says

"In state-run #BoardingSchools, minority languages were forbidden, leading to their steep decline. Repeatedly, entire villages [of #Sami and #Finnish-speaking peoples] were forcibly relocated, with devastating results for culture."

by John Last · CBC News · Posted: Jun 02, 2023

"In an ornate assembly hall of the Storting, Norway's parliament, Dagfinn Hoybraten, chair of the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, presented his work of the last five years.

"'The truth is, Norway does not have a history to be proud of when it comes to the treatment of its minorities,' he said Thursday.

"Before national media and dignitaries from Norway's minority groups, Hoybraten formally tabled the commission's final report, detailing the impacts of a 'comprehensive assimilation policy' — known as Norwegianization — which pursued 'the fastest possible linguistic and cultural assimilation' of #Indigenous and #Finnish-descended minorities over more than a century.

"'This dark side of Norwegian history has continued to cast shadows into our own time,' Hoybraten said. 'It is now time for a settlement regarding the nation's injustice'"

"Norway's commission took direct inspiration from Canada's process, with members visiting the National Centre for #TruthAndReconciliation in Winnipeg to study how the commission operated.

"The Norwegian commission's work has not been without controversy. Before the publication of the final report, several groups expressed concerns that the commission was too secretive about its work, and feared its recommendations would lack real teeth.

"Yet community leaders present at Thursday's ceremony generally voiced cautious optimism about the 700-page final report. 'I'm very excited,' said Kai Petter Johansen, leader of the Norwegian Kven Association, a linguistic minority group.

"'I think that it is promising,' said Runar Myrnes Balto, a member of the governing council of Norway's #Samediggi or Sami Parliament. 'I think it's important now that the parliament, quickly, invites us to a meeting, to talk about the best possible way to take the next steps.'

"The Sami are Europe's only recognized Indigenous group, occupying a broad swathe of Arctic territory spanning from Norway to Russia. Norway is home to their largest community, comprising around 65,000 people."

Read more:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/norway-indigenous-sami-truth-commission-final-report-1.6862471

Well-meaning white people who truly want to understand and be allies need to internalize this message, shared by #LilyGladstone, on the idea of #assimilation and what that word always means to those of us who aren't white in white-majority situations of every kind.

"This is actually a really oppressive concept for us. We have to put something of ourselves away in order to belong."

#KillersOfTheFlowerMoon

#empathy #think

#link: https://variety.com/2023/film/news/lily-gladstone-flower-moon-backlash-scorsese-osage-story-1235790667/