I keep thinking about a recent article in Nature by Talhelm and Dong that appears to confirm the theory that the staple crops (in this case wheat versus rice) can influence collectivistic cultural tendencies.

In particular, it makes me wonder how the #milpa impacted Indigenous North American cultures. A milpa is a #Native agroecological system largely centered around growing corn, beans and squash in the same field. It is intense, highly productive and also provides a complete and healthy diet in a very small amount of land.

I suspect that milpas lead to even more individualistic tendencies, which could explain the large linguistic and cultural diversity of North America and how it led to dense urban societies so quickly.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-44770-w

People quasi-randomly assigned to farm rice are more collectivistic than people assigned to farm wheat - Nature Communications

According to the rice theory, the demands of rice farming might make cultures more collectivistic. Here the authors provide evidence in support of this theory by showing that Chinese farmers who were quasi-randomly assigned to farm rice score higher …

^Nature

@Tzipporah with their Eighth Generation "Two Spirit" wool blanket by Two Spirit artist Ryan Young (Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa) that calls out to their community's traditional story about crows.

https://eighthgeneration.com/collections/blankets/products/two-spirit-wool-blanket
#Mvskoke #Chippewa #Crows #Native #Indigenous #TwoSpirit #2SLGBTQ

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Allies.social is highly recommended as the best, most reliable choice you can make in choosing a Fediverse instance. It is professionally hosted and has developer level support. It is a 5 nines site, in other words fully operational 99.999% of the time — an average of less than 6 minutes downtime per year. It is fully capable of celebrity or high demand users. It doesn’t get better than this.

#Native #Indigenous #DigitalLandBack #TurtleIsland

https://turtleisland.blog/allies-fediverse-instances/

Allies Fediverse Instances - TurtleIsland.blog

There are estimated to be over 12,000 Mastodon instances (servers) in the Fediverse, but only one is officially for allies of Native/Indigenous people with the same high reliability record of TurtleIsland.social. Allies.

^{Yehuda (TurtleIsland.blog)}

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Members of the #CowichanTribes are about to embark on a #historic #vote , that if passed, would see the #CowichanValley #FirstNation implement its own law. That law would #reclaim #FullAuthority over child and family services.

#Cowichan Tribes is made up of around 5,000 members.

https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/cowichan-tribes-to-vote-on-a-law-reclaiming-full-authority-over-child-and-family-services-1.6639167

#VancouverIsland #Indigenous #Native

Cowichan Tribes to vote on a law reclaiming full authority over child and family services

Members of the Cowichan Tribes are about to embark on a historic vote, that if passed, would see the Cowichan Valley First Nation implement its own law. That law would reclaim full authority over child and family services.

^{Brendan Strain (CTV News)}

I've written a #tutorial on how to program #accessible #native #gui #windows applications in #rust using the native-windows-gui library: https://modulus.isonomia.net/tech/nwg/

Also available in Spanish: https://modulus.isonomia.net/tech/nwg-es/

#a11y #programming