New York School Hires a Robot Teacher at the Seneca Nation reservation (designed for intimacy)

Amazing stuff!

The company's name reminds of botox! 😊

"The Seneca Nation

The Seneca Nation is a true democracy whose constitution was established in 1848." (Source)

"A rural western New York school district will become one of the first in the country to put a humanoid robot in the classroom this fall, starting in its high school AI and robotics classes on the Seneca Nation reservation.

The robot costs $57,590, is named Sally, and has silicone skin, long brown hair, facial expressions, and upper-body movements. The company that built her, Realbotix, also has a history of making lifelike dolls designed for intimacy. ..."

Tuesday, July 21, 2026 - Join The Flyover

Realbotix to Deploy First Humanoid Robot and AI Teachers Assistant in U.S. School District (original news release)

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Interjurisdictional competition is paying off in North America regarding major construction projects

What a nice expression! Interjurisdictional competition.

"In Vancouver, the Squamish Nation is using a parcel of its land that is not subject to the city’s zoning authority to build large residential towers that would be illegal under Vancouver’s extremely restrictive zoning rules.

And in the United States, data center developers are courting Indian reservations, attracted by the possibility of securing faster approvals from sovereign tribal governments."

Doomslayer: Progress Roundup - by Malcolm Cochran

An Ainu man keeping traditions alive in Japan

Recommendable! The Ainus are are an indigenous minority of Japan.

Aiong Taigi is an American YouTuber based in Taiwan who promotes and helps others to learn the native Taiwanese language

 Good news!

Google: "Aiong Taigi is an American YouTuber based in Taiwan known for creating content that promotes and helps others learn the Taiwanese language, or Tâi-gí. Through his videos, he shares his experience learning Taiwanese as a foreigner, discusses Taiwan's language policies, and encourages the use of the language in everyday life, as explained in sources like this Instagram post and this Spotify podcast episode. He has gained a significant following and has collaborated with other Taiwanese language content creators, notes this Reddit post. 

Focus on language preservation: Aiong Taigi's YouTube channel is dedicated to preserving and promoting the Taiwanese language."

Global Taiwan Institute: "YouTube Content Creater "Aiong Taigi" on Preserving Taiwanese and Learning the Inner Language

Taiwanese (台語), also known as Tâi-gí, is the most widely spoken native language in Taiwan. During both the Japanese colonial period and subsequent martial law era (1949-1987), Taiwanese and other indigenous languages faced severe repression. While democratization has restored the freedom to speak Taiwanese openly, new challenges have emerged. As fewer young people speak the language, the question looms: how can this once-flourishing mother tongue survive in an era of globalization?"

阿勇台語 Aiong Taigi (his YouTube channel)

Saving Tâi-gí: Taiwan’s Largest Heritage Language

Illegal Gold Mining, Mercury in the Amazon and children with neurological disorders

There is one well known remedy to illegal mining of precious metals! Make it legal and thereby more safe and protect the environment!

According to Google: "Roughly half of the Amazon is covered by some form of management and protection, including protected areas and indigenous territories."

Notice that the report does not say whether indigenous people themselves are involved in some of the illegal gold mining. If yes, maybe they should be educated or trained to do it safely. The noble savage myth and/or all indigenous people are victims propaganda?

"Brazilian researchers are finding mounting proof that mercury from illegal Amazon gold mining is linked to neurological disorders and disabilities among Indigenous children. 

 

Background: As illegal mining has proliferated in the region, rivers—key to the livelihoods of Indigenous people—have become contaminated with mercury, as have the fish eaten as staple food.  

 

Emerging evidence: In recent years, health officials have reported dozens of patients in the region—mostly children—with neurological disorders.  

While scientists have long suspected mercury as the culprit, a groundbreaking study tracking 176 pregnant women and their babies aims to find more definitive answers. 

Already, preliminary findings show that the mothers have mercury levels 5X higher than considered safe."

Global Health NOW: Gold Mining, Mercury, and the Amazon’s Mothers; and Dispatches from Bogotà: ICFP 2025

Scientists Try to Prove Link Between Amazon Gold Mining and Disabilities in Babies

Indigenous Communities around the world Reclaim Health to break the cycles of historical trauma caused by colonization. Really!

As if indigenous peoples never were colonizers themselves!

This colonization propaganda and demagoguery is so annoying!

The Noble Savage stereotype is tiring and naive!

"Indigenous partners from around the globe are using their communal strengths to break the cycles of historical trauma caused by colonization—and improve health outcomes in their communities.

 

Since December 2022, a group including people from First Nations, Canada; Aboriginal peoples from Australia; the Māori peoples from Aotearoa (New Zealand); and Indigenous hosts from the southwestern U.S., and Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health have been collaborating. ..."

Global Health NOW: Egypt Builds on Hep C Success; Indigenous Communities Reclaim Health; and ‘Thousands of Little Virus Factories’

‘We Are All Connected’ Indigenous peoples are overcoming centuries of colonization by reclaiming the health of children and families.

Amazonia - It probably holds over 10,000 undiscovered earthworks from pre-Columbian indigenous people

Amazing stuff!

"During the pre-Columbian era, the Amazon was home to complex societies throughout its vast forested area. These ancient indigenous societies had a deep knowledge of earthmoving, which they used to create earthworks with social, ceremonial and defensive functions. The scale of that landscape transformation remains unknown -- and much about these civilizations is also unknown. ..."

From the editor's summary and the abstract:

"Editor’s summary

Indigenous societies have lived in the Amazon for at least 12,000 years. Finding evidence of these societies, however, has been greatly hampered by the density of the forest in Amazonia. Peripato et al. used LIDAR (light detection and ranging) surveys to identify more than 20 previously unidentified developments and then modeled the occurrence of others across the Amazon. The authors predict that between 10,000 and 24,000 ancient earthworks are waiting to be discovered. Sampling of some of the LIDAR transects revealed a consistent set of domesticated tree species associated with the developments, suggesting active forestry practices among these societies. ...

Abstract

Indigenous societies are known to have occupied the Amazon basin for more than 12,000 years, but the scale of their influence on Amazonian forests remains uncertain. We report the discovery, using LIDAR (light detection and ranging) information from across the basin, of 24 previously undetected pre-Columbian earthworks beneath the forest canopy. Modeled distribution and abundance of large-scale archaeological sites across Amazonia suggest that between 10,272 and 23,648 sites remain to be discovered and that most will be found in the southwest. We also identified 53 domesticated tree species significantly associated with earthwork occurrence probability, likely suggesting past management practices. Closed-canopy forests across Amazonia are likely to contain thousands of undiscovered archaeological sites around which pre-Columbian societies actively modified forests, a discovery that opens opportunities for better understanding the magnitude of ancient human influence on Amazonia and its current state."

The Amazon is not pristine. It probably holds over 10,000 undiscovered earthworks

More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia (no public access)

Geographical distribution of known and newly discovered pre-Columbian geometric earthworks in Amazonia.

Peru: Indigene Bürgerwehr kämpft gegen Drogenkartelle

Empfehlenswert!

The Ute Indian Tribe calls Biden’s newest national monument in Colorado an ‘unlawful act of genocide’

The Dimocratic Party and its demented and senile 46th President pretend to be the party of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion!

The power or U.S. Presidents to designate National Monuments under the Antiquities Act should be curtailed! It long overdue! Too many U.S. Presidents abuse this power for their fame and glory!

"Leaders of the Ute Indian Tribe blasted President Joe Biden for designating Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument in Colorado on Wednesday without sufficient tribal consultation, calling Biden’s action “an unlawful act of genocide.”

Biden traveled to the mountainous region near Leadville, Colorado, and used his authority under the Antiquities Act to designate the 53,804-acre national monument, which includes the military camp where the 10th Mountain Division trained during World War II as well as the surrounding national forest land.

Hours later, the Ute Indian Tribe — which is headquartered in Ft. Duchesne, Utah — released a lengthy statement condemning the administration’s failure to formally consult the tribe, noting that the traditional homelands of the tribe’s Uncompahgre Band are within the monument area. ..."

P.S. Unfortunately, I could not immediately find the Ute statement using Google search.

The Ute Indian Tribe calls Biden’s newest national monument an ‘unlawful act of genocide’ Elected tribal leaders said they were not sufficiently consulted about the designation of the Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument in Colorado, which is located in their traditional homelands.

Pope visits Canada to apologise for abuse of many indigenous children

I am not familiar with the background nor the history of the indigenous children. However, why did Canada allow this to happen for so many decades?

Bravo to the old and frail pope to come to Canada to personally apologise for the abuse.

"Between 1881 and 1996 more than 150,000 indigenous children were separated from their families and brought to residential schools."