indigenous - Deceleration

‘SUNAK’ (‘Awaken’) Music Video Release Celebrates Migration as a Birthright of All Beings

Ceiba ili’s new song, ‘Sunak,’ sung in Kotik and Spanish, has a buoyantly infectious flavor. Better yet: It is a jam with a message for our time.

By Greg Harman

/ 8 May 2025

‘SUNAK’ (‘Awaken’) Music Video Release Celebrates Migration as a Birthright of All Beings

Hundreds of Students Walk Out of Classes in San Antonio to Protest Trump Actions

Students told Deceleration that they understand they are organizing for the rights of their own generation as well as those who will follow.

By Greg Harman

/ 6 Feb 2025

Hundreds of Students Walk Out of Classes in San Antonio to Protest Trump Actions

Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe Planning Indigenous-Led Higher Ed In Shadow of DEI Crackdowns

White supremacist movements seeking to eradicate the study of race and racism are driven by a fear of discomfort, says Juan Mancias, tribal chair of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas. That’s also where the healing we all need resides.

By Greg Harman

/ 29 Jan 2025

Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe Planning Indigenous-Led Higher Ed In Shadow of DEI Crackdowns

SpaceX Wastewater, LNG in the RGV, & Sustained Indigenous Resistance

Deceleration speaks with Christopher Basaldú, a member of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas and co-founder of the South Texas Environmental Justice Network

By Greg Harman

/ 12 Oct 2024

SpaceX Wastewater, LNG in the RGV, & Sustained Indigenous Resistance

Texas Supreme Court to Take Up Religious Liberty Question on Brackenridge Park Lawsuit

Members of the Lipan-Apache ‘Hoosh Chetzel’ Native American Church have been granted a rehearing of their federal lawsuit that could force the City of San Antonio to reconsider its policies targeting migratory birds and elder trees.

By James Courtney

/ 27 Sep 2024

Texas Supreme Court to Take Up Religious Liberty Question on Brackenridge Park Lawsuit

WILD12: How the Hé Sapa Resolution Could Help ‘Indigenize’ Global Wilderness Conservation

“All relevant institutions [must] actively promote wilderness policy that acknowledges that nature is multi-dimensional, transcending the material and physical realms; and use language that honors the rights and roles of Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom Systems, natural and custom

By Greg Harman

/ 19 Sep 2024

WILD12: How the Hé Sapa Resolution Could Help ‘Indigenize’ Global Wilderness Conservation

VIDEO: The Land and Its Peoples: Indigeneity and Settler Colonialism from Texas to Palestine

Last Saturday, around 50 people gathered beneath an elder oak tree in San Pedro Springs Park, part of the headwaters complex of the San Antonio River. They gathered to discuss

By Greg Harman

/ 17 Sep 2024

VIDEO: The Land and Its Peoples: Indigeneity and Settler Colonialism from Texas to Palestine

VIDEO: Healing Is the Primary Challenge of Our Time, Indigenous Elder Tells Delegates at World Wilderness Congress

‘Mother Earth, she doesn’t need humans to help save her. … It’s a question about whether or not if we humans are going to survive and be here,’ Ilarion Merculieff, Unangax̂ (Aleut), told delegates at the World Wilderness Congress last weekend.

By Greg Harman

/ 5 Sep 2024

VIDEO: Healing Is the Primary Challenge of Our Time, Indigenous Elder Tells Delegates at World Wilderness Congress

WILD12: Buffalo are Center of Restoration Efforts from the Black Hills to the Texas Plains

“If you see this animal like your grandma, how would you treat it versus just something in the wild?” asked Tatewin Means, executive director of the Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation.

By James Courtney

/ 29 Aug 2024

WILD12: Buffalo are Center of Restoration Efforts from the Black Hills to the Texas Plains

WILD12: ‘Land Back’ at the Center of Debates Over How to Preserve the Biosphere

Indigenous peoples face promise—and potential perils—in the struggle for wilderness conservation.

By Greg Harman

/ 27 Aug 2024

WILD12: ‘Land Back’ at the Center of Debates Over How to Preserve the Biosphere

Support Our Team at WILD12: The First World Wilderness Congress Hosted by Indigenous Peoples

Every four years the World Wilderness Congress convenes to assess the state of the planet and the health of the full and wondrous web of life that fills the Earth. Each convening brings new causes for alarm and urgency. But each convening also produces new reasons for hope.

By Greg Harman

/ 21 Aug 2024

Support Our Team at WILD12: The First World Wilderness Congress Hosted by Indigenous Peoples

VIDEO: Beehive Collective brings ‘True Cost of Coal’ and ‘Mesoamérica Resiste’ to Texas

This month opened with a banger of a presentation at Galeria E.V.A. when the Beehive Collective, the renowned arts and storytelling project now touring the world arrived in San Antonio. They unfurled massive hand-illustrated banners telling big stories. Like how about the essential story of coal in

By Greg Harman

/ 19 Aug 2024

VIDEO: Beehive Collective brings ‘True Cost of Coal’ and ‘Mesoamérica Resiste’ to Texas