Indigenous/Pagan Voice

“So spoke the Blessed Mary / Oh, my brother, Elijah of Thunder! / How shall I not weep /  When I’m coming from the lands of India …” – Serbian Epic Folk Poetry, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić,  Pjesme, 1814 [...]

Od svih indo-evropskih naroda, Sloveni su oni koji danas zauzimaju najveću teritoriju, na evro-azijskom kontinentu. Takođe, Sloveni su najmnogoljudnija ento-lingvistička grupa na evropskom kontinentu. Danas ih ima oko 300 miliona. Slovenski narodi se tradicionalno dele na istočno-slovenske (Rusi, Belorusi, Ukrajinci), zapadno-slovenske (Poljaci, Česi, Slovaci, Lužički Srbi, Kašubi) i južno-slovenske (Srbi, Hrvati, Bošnjaci, Slovenci, Makedonci, Bugari). [...]

“And above all, don’t let us forget India, the cradle of the human race, or at least of that part of it to which we belong, where first Mohammedans, and then Christians, were most cruelly infuriated against the adherents of the original faith of mankind. The destruction or disfigurement of the ancient temples and idols, [...]

On 26th January 1788, Captain Phillip planted the British flag at Sydney Cove. Today Australia Day signifies the illegal occupation of Australia to First Nations peoples. Colonists declared the country uninhabited or Terra Nullius to avoid compliance with British law. Since then a combination of methods to brutally subjugate, slaughter, enslave, oppress, breed out and [...]

A heavily armed police force arrested 33 Native Hawaiian elders who were peacefully protecting our most sacred mountain from desecration. Our kūpuna are literally laying down their bodies for our environment and culture—and they must not shoulder this burden alone – Kaniela Ing  #WeAreMaunaKea “They took all the fish out of our ocean, they put [...]

In 1906 the Bronx Zoo stuck an African pygmy from the Congo in a cage, told the masses he was a cannibal, & watched the zoo’s attendance double as a result. Slavery had been abolished many hears before and he was released due to the public outcry, but that is not the end to this [...]

Latvian and Lithuanian neo-pagans have called on Pope Francis to end local Catholic opposition to their quest for religious recognition in the Baltic states, ahead of the pontiff's visit to the region Saturday. [...]

A sculpture on tribal land that honors women was vandalized with red paint and a cross with “Columbus Day” Members of the Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo were hurting Monday and wondering why a sculpture on tribal land that honors women was vandalized with red paint and a cross with “Columbus Day” written on it. The [...]

COPS in Brazil are investigating claims 10 members of a remote Amazonian tribe were hacked to death by ruthless gold miners out to seize their land. A complaint has been filed with prosecutors in South America after the alleged killers went into a bar and bragged about what they had done. [...]

A group of pagans has written to the Archbishop of Canterbury demanding two churches to make amends for those it says were stolen 1,300 years ago. The Odinist Fellowship, which represents 1,000 members of the pagan religion, wrote to the Church of England last month asking for two churches to be returned to make up [...]