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The first climate agreement focusing on Indigenous perspectives continues to gain international support after the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues urged its member states to adopt the agreement in its final report which was released last month.

Known as the Escazú Agreement, the plan was a recurring topic throughout the permanent forum’s 21st session, and its side events, in April and May in New York City, in which government, tribal and community leaders discussed vital issues affecting Indigenous populations throughout the world.

“The Escazú Agreement is the first instrument that includes provisions on the protection of human rights defenders in environmental matters,” the report states.

The permanent form’s annual session is considered the world’s largest gathering of Indigenous leaders and the final report provides expert advice and recommendations on Indigenous issues to the UN system through the economic and social council. READ MORE. —  Carina Dominguez, ICT 

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Department of Interior officials are visiting Oklahoma on Saturday. It’s the first stop for the “Road to Healing” initiative.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland,Laguna Pueblo, and Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland, Bay Mills Indian Community, will be visiting the Riverside Indian School in Anadarko, Oklahoma, on July 9.

The purpose of the initiative is to meet with federal Indian boarding school survivors and their descendants to share their experiences. It was launched in May when the first volume of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative’s investigative report was released.

The year-long tour includes a visit to Hawaii, Michigan, Arizona and South Dakota. It’s expected they will visit more states in 2023.

“Trauma-informed support will be available on-site during the Oklahoma event, which will be memorialized as part of the effort to capture first-person stories,” according to the Interior’s press release. READ MORE— Kalle Benallie, ICT

Glenabah Martinez knows firsthand the benefits teachers and students share when they are from the same community. She wants to help fast track Indigenous college grads to teach in public schools.

Martinez, Taos and Diné, taught students from Taos Pueblo but was immersed in the culture and traditions that she shares with those students outside the school.

Now, in her role as a professor at the University of New Mexico, she wants to expand that opportunity for future educators fresh out of college that can be part of reforming public education in the state and modeling a path toward maintaining traditional cultures while becoming leaders.

“We have to not only teach them how to read and write and do things in the Western way, but we have to recognize that they’re getting a strong cultural education at home as well,” she said.

Martinez is looking for recent Native American college graduates or people who are about to finish their degree to take part in a program that will provide them a smooth path to a teaching license with first-hand experience teaching a class in their home community.

“We’re trying to recruit people to become teachers that not only are going to teach but are going to teach in their Native community,” she said. “So we’re talking about teachers to work in rural areas.” READ MORE — Source New Mexico

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Taika Waititi takes a hammer to Thor in ‘Love & Thunder’

NEW YORK — To a large degree, modern blockbuster moviemaking has depended on the appeasement of fans to keep franchise juggernauts smoothly humming. But in making “Thor: Love and Thunder,” Taika Waititi had no interest in that. He approached the film from the opposite direction. What would actually make fans angry?

“I wanted to show him in a light that most Thor fans wouldn’t really want if you were to tell them,” Waititi says. “If you were to say them: ‘Yeah, I’m going to make Thor in love,’ it’s probably the last thing that a Thor fan really wants to hear.”

“Thor: Love and Thunder,” which opens Thursday, is Marvel’s fourth Thor movie and Waititi’s second after the 2017 smash success “Thor Ragnarok.” That film, a hit with fans and critics, reinvented Chris Hemsworth‘s god of thunder and introduced a looser, idiosyncratic tone to Marvel’s most monolithic hero.

But if “Ragnarok” was Waititi’s version of a Marvel movie, “Love and Thunder” might simply be a Taika Waititi movie, without equivocation. Of the 29 films thus far in the Marvel cinematic universe, none may be so distinctively the work of its filmmaker. READ MORE— Associated Press 

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