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Locations Picked for Three Large-Scale New Oyster Restoration Reefs in MD

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Post date October 26, 2024
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“Now what?” is a question Maryland oyster restoration experts may have been asking themselves in the wake of successfully bringing back oyster populations in five major tributaries.

The five locations were targeted a decade ago, after 2014’s Chesapeake Bay Program’s Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement outlined a goal to “restore habitat and populations in 10 tributaries by 2025.” Now, four of the five are officially complete and the fifth, the Manokin River, is on target for completion right on time in 2025.

So, what should DNR and restoration advocates like the Oyster Recovery Partnership do now? Is the job finished?

No, there are new goals on the horizon. This month, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced it has selected three new sites for large-scale oyster restoration in state waters of the Chesapeake Bay. It’s the next phase of helping the historically depleted population slowly build up.

DNR presented their selected sites, Herring Bay (southern Maryland), the Nanticoke River (Delmarva), and Hooper Strait (lower Eastern Shore), to the Oyster Advisory Commission. The diverse group of sites includes three different levels of salinity. The department will plant oysters on protected sanctuaries in all three waterways and monitor them regularly.

“These three large-scale restoration sanctuaries represent a new chapter for oyster restoration in Maryland,” Department of Natural Resources Secretary Josh Kurtz said. “We’ve had tremendous success with our existing restoration sanctuaries, and we’re excited to build on that achievement and keep up the momentum for oyster recovery in the Chesapeake Bay.”

Eastern oysters are still at a fraction of their one-time population levels because of overharvesting many years ago, disease, habitat loss and worsening water quality . They’re needed not just as a link in the food chain, but also as natural water filters and habitat providers for other species, thanks…

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Lenapehoking

From Lenapehoking to Palestine, genocide is a crime!

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Post date October 25, 2024
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Philadelphia

Students, faculty and community activists came out for a Palestine Solidarity Vigil, with signs, banners, chants, speakers and musical instruments, on Indigenous Peoples Day, Oct 14. The vigil took place at the University of Pennsylvania campus, which sits on occupied Lenape territory, known as Lenapehoking.

Indigenous Peoples Day, Philadelphia, Oct. 14, 2024. WW Photo: Joe Piette

Highlights included a speech by a Lenapehoking activist and a talk condemning one of the Pentagon’s and Israeli Occupation Forces’ newest weapons invented by UPenn students and produced at Ghost Robotics. Demonstrators unfurled a long scroll containing the names of 7,000 Palestinians killed by Israel, reading aloud hundreds of their names. (tinyurl.com/2t8cc39m; tinyurl.com/3cv28ber)

Organized by Faculty for Justice in Palestine, the march emphasized the similarities between the struggles of Indigenous peoples, from Turtle Island to Palestine.

Both the U.S. and Israel were founded as European settler-colonial outposts. Both employed systematic dispossession, forced relocation and massacres, resulting in the ethnic cleansing of Indigenous peoples in order to gain control of maximum land and resources for a white supremacist ruling class.

To this day, U.S. imperialists and genocidal Zionists use surveillance, military checkpoints, police brutality, mass incarceration, theft of water and other natural resources, environmental destruction, desecration of burial sites, and cultural erasure and appropriation, and the most extreme violence to deny Native populations the right to live in peace on their own lands.

No to settler colonial projects, from Lenapehoking to Palestine!

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Lenni Lenape

Field Hockey: Results, links and featured coverage for Thursday, Oct. 24

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Post date October 25, 2024
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Thursday, Oct. 24

2024 Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament, Semifinal Round

3-South Plainfield 2, 2-Old Bridge 1 – Box Score

1-East Brunswick 4, 4-Metuchen 1 – Box Score

2024 Morris County Tournament, Quarterfinal Round

5-Mount Olive 3, 4-Mountain Lakes 2 – Box Score

2024 Prep A Tournament, Quarterfinal Round

5-Kent Place 3, 4-Blair 0 – Box Score

2024 Shore Conference Tournament, Second Round

9-Trinity Hall 2, 8-Manasquan 1 – Box Score

Southern 7, Manalapan 1 – Box Score

3-Point Pleasant Boro 9, 14-Toms River East 0 – Box Score

6-Monmouth 5, 22-Freehold Borough 1 – Box Score

1-Shore 8, 16-Red Bank Catholic 0 – Box Score

4-Rumson-Fair Haven 4, 13-Toms River South 1 – Box Score

5-Middletown South 4, 12-Ocean Township 0 – Box Score

7-Central Regional 2, 10-Lacey 1 – Box Score

Regular Season

BCSL

Cinnaminson 2, Robbinsville 1 – Box Score

Delran 6, Burlington Township 1 – Box Score

Gloucester 6, Maple Shade 0 – Box Score

Ewing 2, Pemberton 0 – Box Score

Notre Dame 5, Florence 2 – Box Score

CAPE-ATLANTIC

Our Lady of Mercy 4, Vineland 0 – Box Score

Egg Harbor 2, Oakcrest 1 – Box Score

Hammonton 6, Woodstown 1 – Box Score

Ocean City 2, Mainland 0 – Box Score

COLONIAL

Gloucester 6, Maple Shade 0 – Box Score

Gateway 4, Audubon 1 – Box Score

Haddonfield 1, West Deptford 1 – Box Score

CVC

Cinnaminson 2, Robbinsville 1 – Box Score

Ewing 2, Pemberton 0 – Box Score

Notre Dame 5, Florence 2 – Box Score

ESSEX/UNION

Scotch Plains-Fanwood 2, Morristown 1 – Box Score

Newark Academy 3, Koinonia 2 – Box Score

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Delaware Tribe

The History of the Lenape Tribe

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Post date October 25, 2024
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Chief Dennis Coker

On Saturday, November 9, at 1:00 p.m. the Milford Museum will commemorate Native American Heritage month with a presentation at the Milford Public Library by Dennis J. Coker, Principal Chief of the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware. Representing the ‘First People of the First State,’ the Lenape Indian Tribe is located in northern Kent County in and around the town of Cheswold.

“The Lenape people, who are ethnically distinct, have been known historically as the Delaware Moors,” Tom Summers, Director of the Milford Museum, said. “For hundreds of years the Cheswold Lenape community has coexisted with their neighbors of European and African descent largely through attending separate churches and schools. Their separate schools closed in the mid-1960s as a result of Delaware’s desegregation efforts.”

During the early 1990s, in response to a resurgence of Native awareness and pressures from the outside, elders of the Cheswold Lenape community decided to celebrate their unique history and formed the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware. On August 3, 2016, Delaware’s Governor Jack Markell signed legislation officially recognizing the Lenape Community in Cheswold as a Sovereign Indigenous Nation.

A lifelong resident of Kent County, Delaware, Dennis J. Coker has been honored to serve as the elected Principal Chief of the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware since 1996. During his term, Chief Coker has established successful collaborations with the Delaware State Historic Preservation Office and the Federal Census Bureau.

The mission of the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware is to protect the cultural identity of the Lenape people through educational, social and cultural programs. They also promote the physical and economic health of their citizens through specialized health…

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Nanticoke

Maryland aims to launch new round of oyster restoration projects

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Post date October 24, 2024
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A water cannon on an Oyster Recovery Partnership boat shoots spat-on-shell oysters from the University of Maryland’s Horn Point hatchery onto a sanctuary in Maryland’s Tred Avon River in 2018.

Dave Harp

As Maryland works to complete the last of five large oyster restoration projects it committed to a decade ago, state officials have decided to tackle three more.

The state has restored more than 1,100 acres of reefs so far in Harris Creek and the Little Choptank, Tred Avon and Manokin rivers, all on the Eastern Shore, and in the St. Mary’s River off the lower Potomac.

Now, the Department of Natural Resources has announced it intends to restore and repopulate hundreds of acres more in oyster sanctuaries in Herring Bay on the Western Shore and in the Nanticoke River and Hooper Strait on the Eastern Shore.

“These three large-scale restoration sanctuaries represent a new chapter for oyster restoration in Maryland,” DNR Secretary Josh Kurtz said in announcing the selection on Oct. 9. “We’ve had tremendous success with our existing restoration sanctuaries, and we’re excited to build on that achievement and keep up the momentum for oyster recovery in the Chesapeake Bay.”

Maryland and the federal government have spent more than $87 million so far rebuilding reefs and planting hatchery-reared oyster spat in the first five sanctuaries. The effort has proven durable to date with nearly all reefs at least 6 years old yielding the minimum expected densities of bivalves, or better — and 83% sustaining the hoped-for goal of more than 50 oysters per square meter.

All but the Manokin, off Tangier Sound, are considered at least initially “restored.” DNR expects to finish seeding the Manokin in 2025, which would meet the deadline set in the 2014 Chesapeake Bay…

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Endangered languages study wins top British Academy Global Cultural Understanding Prize

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Post date October 24, 2024
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A book that charts how endangered languages are preserved in the modern world has won this year’s British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

The annual Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, created by the British Academy in 2013, has awarded American writer Ross Perlin the £25,000 (€30,100) prize for his non-fiction work ‘Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues’.

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‘Language City’ charts the history of migration into New York via the languages of different cultures entering the area, overwhelming the indigenous Lenape speakers. He then traces that history through to the present with six case studies of endangered language speakers in New York.

Throughout the book, Perlin examines how endangered languages survive through the resilience of their cultural communities, how their unique grammar and syntaxes work, and what we can learn about diverse cultures through studying these languages.

“New York City is home to more than 700 languages – ‘the most linguistically diverse city in the history of the world’ – and by examining them Perlin opens out new ways of thinking about the exuberant variety of these aspects of the urban soundscape, which we might otherwise take for granted or ignore,” Professor Charles Tripp FBA, one of the judges commented.

Language City – Grove Press UK

“Perlin’s research is dynamic and immediate; it is about what is happening now, right in front of us, as we witness the flux of everyday life. It was a real pleasure for the judges to read, even if our reading was tinged with concern for the subjects of these entrancing narratives,” Tripp added.

Professor Julia Black, President of the British Academy commented on the status of the academy’s book prize in celebrating “exceptional research” and non-fiction works that highlight…

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Unami

UN congratulates Kurdistan for election, urges inclusive government

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Post date October 24, 2024
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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ office on Tuesday congratulated the Kurdistan Region for holding parliamentary elections, encouraging an inclusive government to be formed “as soon as possible.”

“The Secretary-General congratulates the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and its people on the holding of parliamentary elections,” the UNSG’s office said in a statement released by deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq.

Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) oversaw the Region’s elections on Sunday, reporting a 72 percent voter turnout with more than two million people casting ballots.

The statement said Guterres “commends the efforts” of the IHEC “supported by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), in the preparations and conduct of these elections.” UNAMI provided technical assistance to the IHEC.

The electoral body announced results from Baghdad on Monday with over 99 percent of polling centers reporting.

The statement from the UNSG urged the formation of “an inclusive government as soon as possible” and reiterated the UN’s support “to consolidate democratic gains and build a prosperous future for the people of Iraq.”

While parties resolve election disputes with the electoral commision, the statement encouraged “all political leaders and segments of society to continue to maintain a peaceful atmosphere…”

With the election date originally scheduled for October 2022, the repeatedly-delayed elections were postponed four times due to political wrangling between the ruling parties and disagreements between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Baghdad.

The Kurdistan Region’s ruling parties will secure over 60 seats in the upcoming regional parliament, Rudaw has projected.

Out of the 100 seats in the upcoming parliament, the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) is expected to secure 39, the highest number of seats, followed by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), with 23 seats.

A total of 1,191 candidates competed for seats in the legislature, downsized from 111 seats following a major Iraqi federal court…

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