WITCH
This group of healers would have never called themselves witches.
Who are cunning folk or wise women?
This ancient city that is now part of Mexico City was three times larger than London or Rome in the year 1500.
What is Tenochtitlan?
In recent data about climate disaster, it is this gendered group who are over 80% more affected.
Who are women?
This town in the US often gets more press about the witch hunts than the European counterpart (many think this town was a large scale craze).
What is Salem?
He was a man who, with Dona Marina, was able to unseat the Mexican emperor, Moctezuma.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
A healer and VooDoo practitioner, she ministered to wealthy and poor, white and black in New Orleans in the mid 1800's.
Who is Marie Laveau?
She was said to have helped the Colonizer John Smith
Who is Pocahontas?
A term that describes the phenomenon that white males perceive climate hazards differently.
What is White Male Effect?
This invention greatly influenced propaganda and beliefs that women were inferior to men at the advent of the Early Modern era.
What is the printing press?
New accounts of the Spanish Conquisition of the Mexica are being discovered through this indigenous language.
What is Nahuatl?
Practitioners of VooDoo may have employed both practices of their traditional rituals mixed with this type of religion.
What is Catholicism?
This type of permanent occupancy includes imposing a new government and making it look like the indigenous population never existed.
What is Settler Colonialism?
A term that took root in the late 20th century that conjoined women with the environment.
What is eco-feminism?
These are some of the reasons for the witch hunts.
What are: Helping women access birth control (limiting childbirth), helping to ease pain through herbal usage, the eradication of paganism, the advent of male led universities, the loss of common lands?
She was an enslaved girl who helped Cortes with his deceiptful campaigns against the Mexica.
Who is La Malinche (Dona Marina)?
A term used to describe a system that perpetuates negative ideas and false narratives about People of Color.
What is White Supremacy?
This giant media company created a lot of misinformation in its retelling of the story of Pocahontas.
Who is Disney?
A term used to describe the growing appreciation for the value of indigenous contributions to caring for the planet.
What is Traditional Ecological Knowledge?
The name given for a religious group that went against the church's teaching in which women played leadership roles. The term means "Pure".
Who are the Cathars?
The first phase was the Idyllic Phase; the second phase was the plunder economy and the third phase was the idolatry campaign.
What are the three phases of colonization in central America?
This large scale resistance in 1791 may have influenced the heightened fears around ancient African ritual/religion.
What is the Haitian Slave revolt?
This type of modern outlook continues the narrative that colonizers are good guys.
What is Neo-colonialism?
The era (and terminology) that scholars use to describe a period of economical development marked by the introduction of power-driven machinery. Which has also contributed to Climate change.
What is the industrial revolution?