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Native Justice & Sovereignty

November 25, 2024

‘The Commune Is Nothing New Here’: The Rio Cataniapo Commune

Today, approximately 1500 people participate in the Río Cataniapo Comune. They come from various ethnic backgrounds, but the majority identify as Indigenous and some still practice common ownership of land.

August 29, 2024

The Commune, a Living Tradition for Pumé People in Venezuela

For many indigenous peoples of Venezuela, the socialist commune is not new at all but resonates with existing and previous social practices that include communal land tenure and self-governance. That is the case for the Pumé community called “Coporo Indígena,” located in upper Apure just outside Biruaca. Due to its small population, this community is registered as a communal council rather than as a commune. 

April 1, 2024

Indigenous Community Care: Traditions of Reciprocity

In early 2024, the Post Growth Institute ran an Offers and Needs Market (OANM) facilitator training program with predominantly rural Native American families from the Southern Oregon Education School District (SOESD) Indian Education program. This article is inspired by my experience as the lead program designer and facilitator.

December 19, 2022

Harvesting is an act of indigenous food sovereignty

In the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, getting out in a canoe to harvest manoomin, or wild rice (Zizania palustris), is a political assertion of indigenous food sovereignty for Anishinaabe people.

Citations

Cooperative Development Foundation (2021).  Common Challenges in Cooperatives.  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/articles/common-challenges-cooperatives

August 23, 2021

Common Challenges in Cooperatives

Roger Fragua and Cornelius Blanding discuss similarities and differences between the challenges experienced by Native American and African American cooperatives.

May 27, 2021

Native American New Urbanism

How the Thunder Valley CDC is providing housing and community on the Pine Ridge reservation.

Citations

GEO Collective (2020).  A Conversation about the Impact of Co-ops in Abolition Work.  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/articles/conversation-about-impact-co-ops-abolition-work

November 24, 2020

A Conversation about the Impact of Co-ops in Abolition Work

Discussion about the intersections of cooperative practices, ethics, and tools with the movement for police and prison abolition and their replacement with a system designed to meet the needs of the community and the individuals who comprise it.

February 10, 2020

Boomalli Artists Co-operative

A video about the Boomalli Artists Co-operative, in Sydney, Australia.