Minorities / Tribes

Minorities/ Tribes:

• General female friendly not-colonial Infos:
• Nnenna Onuoha, film Baby pictures, Ghana- Nigeria 2023 about children of Biafra
• african crisis seen by the Europeen values...
• https://nnennaonuoha.com/portfolio/baby-picture/
• Olena UUtai, Jaw Harp and horse singing, Jakusk build on Permafrost, Russia, see Yubileinaja, 10 000 BC
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP3RkDEGiXY
• Hel, Being of North wisdom, may be connected to Kali, is connected to Frau Holle, Gospels of Nikodmus, 13 Jh
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hel_(mythological_being)
• Mammas, Kogui Koggaba, Sierra Nevada, Columbia, the Sun Mammas with 18 years of education
• https://www.humanium.org/de/was-die-welt-von-den-kogi-lernen-kann/
• Fatoumata Djawara, Angelica Kidjo, Dobet Gnahorè, Zouzou means french angel: music who heals from West Africa 2006-
• Abiyah Yisrael, christian school education, Dominica water and ancestor culture, basic jewish education 2014 and 2019
• https://www.reggaeville.com/artist-details/abiyah-yisrael/about/
• Cesaria Evora, Cap Verde, songs about culture and every day wisdom, 2010
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLsg_Lk819s&list=RDEMHs9PqC_QqLMZxaYKQnD_PA&start_radio=1&rv=ERYY8GJ-i0I
• Sona Jobarteh, Ubuntu Version, Westafrica Gambia and 2023, oraö traditions of Griot Culture 2015
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T_hsSFrVyk
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtmmlOQnTXM&list=RDEME4IUehDv8hcY6_7cYVS3mQ&start_radio=1&rv=9T_hsSFrVyk
• Nyokabi Kariuki, Katleen Tagg and many more, Heroines in Harmony, african componists Afro >Pfingsten Winterthur, 2025
• https://www.afro-pfingsten.ch/de/programm/1706/Afro-Classics-Heroines-in-Harmony-Eine-Hommage-an-Afrikanische-Komponistinnen inspiration and creativ process of herstory and music expressions

• Margaret Jay Jesse, women physicians as -history- abortionists
• Naissam Jalai, musician healing of Gnaoia culture, Maroc: see Neareast
• Venus von Willendorf , Fundorte Wachau, österreich, Tschechien, Deutschland und EU...,
• Walpurga Anti-Weiser, Bücher, ZDF Sendungen, Forschung Wien, Naturhistorisches Museum Vienna
• https://d-nb.info/988828650/04
• Amah Rose Abrams 2015 Catalhüyük exceptionally 1 kg heavy, normal Venus was handsize
• https://news.artnet.com/art-world/8000-year-old-neolithic-figurine-in-turkey-656270
• Interpretations of a clearly astronomical knowledge, which shows a common knowledge based of good eyes, handcrafted powers and disciplin by observing the ecological surrounding, using metals. Thinking deep grounded by every day realities and connecting the sky, the earth and situation of humans in Europe 2100- 1700 v.Chr. see later 13.Jh Hildegard von Bingen
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmelsscheibe_von_Nebra
• Rina Nissim , Geneva, natural healing in gynecology , Mamamelis and
• Lustvoll weibliche Sexualität: alle Lebensalter, female Sexuality at all ages, Amazon
• https://www.exlibris.ch/de/buecher-buch/deutschsprachige-buecher/rina-nissim/naturheilkunde-in-der-gynaekologie/id/9783939623816/?srsltid=AfmBOool2DFbKIOs3h_exvY_G6FuUeHaw4tvpv45sFnqqiqR1-mnIP75
• Oksana Yakushko, women and Therapy, Washington State UNI
• Leah Kintheart, Taylor and Francis, women healers ...to the 21 century
• Esther Ofonmbuk Ekong, WHO statistics: 3 quarter of worldwide women depend on traditional remedies,
• open air, Nigeria and Ottawa, common law UNI
• https://insights.taylorandfrancis.com/social-justice/recognizing-the-importance-of-women-healers/
• using the local advising women and the local plants, minerals and other devices
• Elaine Wainwright, Auckland NZ, UNI Waipapa Taumata Rau, Book
• https://www.orellfuessli.ch/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1046340570
• https://www.herstorywriters.org/healing-stories-for-our-time

• Asmaa Ali, Misrigyä, women for Art, African Egypt https://misj.journals.ekb.eg/article_239377.html 2022
• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360885246_The_White_Lady_painting_in_Namibia_and_its_counterpart_in_Algeria_4000_500_BC_A_comparative_study_in_African_rock_art
• Peru 1926, Txixeya
• Txixeya, healing practise Yaminawa Village, Raya, Mapuja River Peru, Laura Perèz
• https://chacruna.net/yaminawa-women-and-ayahuasca-shamanism-gender-and-history-in-the-peruvian-amazon/
• Liliviwa Sekira, Nasaibitu nowadays still knowing recepies of Fidjii Islands
• https://www.fijitimes.com.fj/the-medicine-woman/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyn_Wadley Lyn Wadley. 1982 Witwatersrand
• Chioma Obochukwu, Stellenbosch, Witwatersrand ZA
• Ochre use of women for deodorants and many more, Myanmar, Germany, Peru...
  • Lozen, Chiricahua Warm Spring Apache, skilled warrior, prophet and medecine women, 1886
  • https://mescaleroapachetribe.com/our-culture/
• Ariella Azoulay, Book 2008, Civil Conventions: critical approach of colonial, eurocentric thinking
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariella_Azoulay
• Niki de St Phall, Garden of Tarot, Giardino of Tarrochi, Toskana Italia, 1993

• Film Biographie and Art story 2023
• https://www.cineman.ch/article/filmkritik-niki-de-saint-phalle-kunst-als-letzte-erl%C3%B6sung
• Installations of violence within families
• https://www.streifzugmedia.com/bericht/niki-de-saint-phalle/ Basel und Zürich
• https://nikidesaintphalle.org/niki-de-saint-phalle/public-works/
• Luisa Muraro, Mailand 1980
• https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-future-of-the-world-is-open-encounters-with-lea-melandri-luisa-muraro-adriana-cavarero-and-rossana-rossanda/
• Patricia Lundi, about the power of women with death Rituals and songs
• https://www.historytoday.com/history-matters/sacred-songs-dead
• Zeneta Everhart, Serpil, Unvar, Inge Auerbacher, "world white hate", Victims of Terrorisme right wing comme Bataclan 2014
• Hanau 2020, Work of Veteranists international and Mothers for Democracy like Emely Oneschuk, Amy Spitalnick
• https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/124648-000-A/world-white-hate-2-3/ there is a french, engl. version 2025
• Anna Bache-Wiig, Eric Poppe, Utoya- July 22, Film about the victims Process after terrible terrorist attac Norway 2011
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ut%C3%B8ya:_July_22 in 2024
• Natalia Buitron, Cambridge UNI, JRAI, nightmare of egalitarisme, research on Göpekli Tepe, 9 000 BC as also Oceania
• https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.70062
• Daniela Schneider, Museum Thüringen für Frühgeschichte,
• https://alt-thueringen.de/museum/team/
• https://www.bajr.org/time-and-life-cycles-reflected-in-the-grinding-stones-of-europes-earliest-neolithic-communities/
• Maria Gurova, Bukarest, bulgarian pre-neolithic perpective, 2014
• https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/41.5
• the Idea, that a static individualisational understanding is very late in human herstory:
• beginning shows, that repet of coming and going, a rhythmic life leads to rebuilding structures of ritual meaning
• see Göbekli Tepe, Mesopotamia 9 000 BC and Balkan research: , UNI Liubljana 2010, Bukarest 2014
• Marina Eguiluz, Barcelona Universitat Autonoma, research at Goseck, Germany, France, Belgium and Czech Republic
• life cycles reflected of grinding stones and women: worn out tools as a symbol of life and death?
• https://www.bajr.org/time-and-life-cycles-reflected-in-the-grinding-stones-of-europes-earliest-neolithic-communities/
• Bis dahin möchte der Stadtrat die Zwischennutzung beibehalten und beantragte dem Parlament einen Zusatzkredit von knapp 8 Millionen Franken, über den am Mittwoch beraten wurde. Etwa 2,2 Millionen Franken davon sind für den Verein Zentralwäscherei vorgesehen

• Aborigenees, Koori and more:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtxk1drncbI life meeting 2019
• Margaret Katharine talking life about Gabernmang culture earth Vase pilgrimage 2015
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQeEc4Cbtt0
• Kapululangu Women aboriginal law and culture centre
• https://healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/key-resources/organisations/1263/?title
• http://www.ajic.mb.ca/volumel/chapter13.html
• Kelly Koumalatsos, Koori, 2014 , making Opossum skin biografies for newborns, Bunjilaka cultural centre, Victoria AU
• making Art by blankets, the white "gift" history to Aboriginees filled with diseases
• https://museumsvictoria.com.au/bunjilaka/about-us/birrarung-gallery/kelly-koumalatsos/
• It seems, that many tribes knew exactly about Inzest following difficulties: many rules seem to limit this problem.
• Suizide is under Aboriginees 3 times higher then under white Australians.
• NPY women council 1980, https://www.npywc.org.au/what-we-do/ngangkari-traditional-healers/
• Vallee Trudeau, SOAHAC, Ontario, https://www.soahac.on.ca/
• Gail Guthrie Valasakis, 2007, Handbook Healing Traditions of Aborigines in Canada
• https://www.ubcpress.ca/healing-traditions
• Leann Wilson,UNI Queensland, https://healingfoundation.org.au/about-us/our-board/
• Pat Dudgeon, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02703149.2017.1324191
• Kim Andesron, Womens reflections on health, water, UNI Dalhousie CND, pdf
• Liliana Harrington, 2025 Avaaz campaign international for the women of sovereignety camp, Rona Glynn McDonald
• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/6/australian-neo-nazi-attack-on-sacred-indigenous-site-a-worrying-trend
• https://www.commonground.org.au/article/weaving-truths-resource

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Fidjii, Papua Neu Guinea and Taihiti traditions: see also Easter Islands

• Nisreen Aouira, PhD pharmacy, Melbourne UNI, girl centre for health, AWaGHr
• n.aouira@uq.edu.au
• Reema Naresh, founder of AWaGHr is origin from Fidjii, now women health in Queensland
• https://indigenous-futures.org/component/spsimpleportfolio/item/reema-naresh?Itemid=0
• Anette Dobson, FAHMS, 2012 longitude study of womens health, 1998 see
• https://web.archive.org/web/20100501003119/http://sph.uq.edu.au/core-research
• Elaine Wainewright, UNI Auckand till 2014, Healing in early Christianity, see Papua New Guinea
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Wainwright
• see engl wiki:
• Dieu A'a fait entre 1590- 1640, figurine en boit Sandal avec un estomac vide et plusieurs petites figurs sur le system meridian aux corps ( see australien? Makonde?) definitiv avec des pouvoir d'un sorcier. Volè par des missionaires ou des marins colonial, detruit par des missionaires, qui ont longtemps dans le british museum, retournè en 2023 é Taihiti, herstory oral multiple interprètè.... https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_du_dieu_A%27a
• Celtic:
• celtic moaning women songs for death RitualsC
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keening
• Female Druids and celtic women;
• herbes, trees, mediatrice of disputes, Karen Fleming modelling a celtic women:
• https://www.scinexx.de/news/geowissen/keltische-druidin-bekommt-ein-gesicht/
• Female Skythes: Artimpasa: Snake legged Goddess: knowledge of Vegetation, Pre-Origin of Tree of Life, Persia,
• we do nit know the real meaning, as there are systems of thinking, systems of believes, we can not explain by linear explanations
• Skythe Kurgan graves, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, princesses with weapon, cosmetics, herbs and new born baby and gold jewelry, loads of interpretations, where women may write a new herstory....
• Marija Gimbutas, Rasa Navikaitè, CEU UNI, feminist studies pdf
• Inuit, Alaska
• Romani Makkik, Igloolik, Nunatsiak news 2020 , Canadian heritage
• https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/igloolik-woman-releases-film-on-inuit-healing-and-reconciliation/
• practised in Newbury east London, Ontario, CND andWellington NZ, Soahac centres
• https://www.soahac.on.ca/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKJO1YyQMmY
• traditional Alaska
• Kerstine Eiby Moller, Greenland Museum 1987, sustinable heritage management
• https://trap.gl/en/historie/the-inuit-culture-precolonial-period/
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• Etruscians: Italy:
• Simonetta Stopponi, Etruscian Aerchologist Orvieto and Viterbo, Etruscian Idea of Ancestor Cult
• Etruscian Prothesis by gold or animal theeth, dentist knowledge,
• https://historisches-museum-hellental.de/hochkultur-der-etrusker-ras-en-na.html
• Etruscian Torso, Louvre Paris, with all intestines incl. Prostata, 68 cm, 300 BC
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ySu41anSgwg
• questo figura e identificado come uomo- ma che fa con gli seni !
• et anche piu sinistre: con il Ghiandola Prostata? una ricerca greco 300 BC officialmente..
• Early Etruscian reproduction Ideas: women, girls on an equal footing as men
• https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kunst-und-architektur/etruskische-statuen-fruchtbar-im-antiken-luxusbad-18477108.html
• https://www.finestresullarte.info/de/werke-und-kunstler/die-etrusker-und-der-sex-wie-unsere-vorfahren-liebe-machten
• https://www.thaliatook.com/OGOD/achuvitr.php
• Fortuna Primigenia, Goddess of helping new borns, San Caslano, Bagno Grande, general bath healing culture
• https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/san-casciano-dei-bagni-thermal-baths-relics-scn/index.html
• Kyle Phillips, excavations Etruscan Poggio Civitate, Murlo
• https://thevotivesproject.org/2014/03/22/turfa/
• Ada Salvi, Soprintendanza Archeologica Grossetto et Siena
• https://www.herder.de/wbg-magazine/aktuelles/2020-2022/aussergewoehnliche-bronzestatuen-im-heiligtum-von-san-casciano-dei-bagni-entdeckt/
• Maori traditions
• Rawinia Higgins, Arini Loader, traditional Maori mourning songs
• https://teara.govt.nz/en/traditional-maori-songs-waiata-tawhito
• https://teara.govt.nz/en/rongoa-medicinal-use-of-plants/page-1
• Rebecca Harris, https://bpac.org.nz/BPJ/2008/May/rongoa.aspx
• https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/discover-collections/read-watch-play/maori/maori-medicine
• Tina Ngaroimata Fraser, Tuhoe tribe, https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/1774/1534
• Glenis Mark, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/42588804_Maori_healers%27_views_on_wellbeing_The_importance_of_mind_body_spirit_family_and_land
• Rawiri Timrau, healing traumata, independent Maori Institute of health and environment
• https://teatawhai.maori.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/He-Rau-Murimuri-Aroha.pdf
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• Native american traditions
• Lozen, Chiricahua Warm Spring Apache, skilled warrior, prophet and medecine women, 1886
• https://mescaleroapachetribe.com/our-culture/
• Marika Alvarado, Lipan Apache plants and medecine, Austin Texas UNI
• https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/nais/events/workshop-on-indigenous-health-plants-and-the-environment-with-marika-alvarado-lipan-mescalero-apache
• Cryistal Lee, Navajo, AFT community since 1916, Professionels of public health care
• https://www.aft.org/hc/spring2024/lee
• Mackenzie Dow, Violence and murder on indigenous women, women healing institute
• https://medium.com/data-feminism-lab-mit/waking-women-healing-institute-and-mit-map-resources-for-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-c8e69be660f8
• see also kwelch@wakingwomenhealingint.org
• Native american indigenous tribes;
• Mary Koithan, describing Desbah, Arizona
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2913884/
• american cancer microsites cancer.org 2015
• Chapter2: American Indian and Alaska Native healing traditions
• Ivey Camille Manybeadstso, Navajo, Film Powerland , winning best doc Award, 2022
• https://powerlands.org/
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• Nuraghen culture, Sardegna Italy:
• Arte Nuraghen cultura di aqua, Tempio, cultura commune,: Isabella Cattedou, Sardegna, Serena Sabatini, Göteborg,
• Emili Holt, Cardiff: 1400-1200 BC la cultura commune di agricultura, funerali
• https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/116007-000-A/sardinien-das-raetsel-der-nuraghen-tuerme/
• Alessandra Derriu, Sassara, Medicina Sacra de Sardegna, 2021
• Angela Antona Ruiu, Laura Lai, Nuraghe Lugherras, scavo da 1910, Sardegna
• https://www.facebook.com/NURNET2013/posts/bronzetto-nuragico-di-madre-con-bambinonota-la-statuetta-insieme-ad-altri-innume/1462506103828109/-----https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuraghe_Lugherras
• Antico Luogo di nascita, ? Santu Istevene, ,Altare Rupestre, Oschiri, ca 4 000 BC
• https://pecora-nera.eu/mystischer-felsenaltar-santo-stefano-oschiri/
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• Skythe , Kirgistan etc:
• Afyonkarahisar, town of Opium, is an old water healing centre on a volcanic rock. the Hittites at ca 2000 BC were living with herds as Nomads in contact with the Nomads of Horses as the Skythes
• https://sensiseeds.com/de/blog/die-cannabisprinzessin-aus-sibirien/Umaj, Sibirien, Midwife, Reproduction, Gynäkology
• Adrienne Mayor, graveyards with healing herbs, seeds, bronze spear tips, make- up cream and a new born baby in the left arm by Skythic young princess with golden head jewelry as by other 15 vear old women
• https://www.academia.edu/10363523/Zur_Identifizierung_von_bewaffneten_Frauen_in_den_G%C3%A4bern_des_2_bis_1_Jahrtausends_v_Chr_in_Aserbaidschan_auf_Basis_der_arch%C3%A4ologischen_Funde
• Lady of Kirkushin, mummy of Altai 1876 excavated, powerful long following impacts of deceased female
• https://journals.openedition.org/emscat/6215?lang=en#tocto1n2
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Ice_Maiden
• female found graves 24 000 BC, skillful weavers, horse riding, horse milk for healing, Cannabis
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_C_(mtDNA)
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• Tuareg: see also Tuaeg english page with pictures
• Tassili al NÀjjer, Alegiia Tareg paintings: the horned women, women with child, 6 000 BC
• Imajeghen, Sahara Desert, Tuareg women is very few known of their knowledge, one thing is an exceptional memory of desert ways, where to go for the whole tribe as Nomads : to find water, plants and animals. may be similar to the walk-way wisdom of Aboriginee women? Australia
• sometimes it seems, that men disguise themselves in front of women?
• https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/practices-and-knowledge-linked-to-the-imzad-of-the-tuareg-communities-of-algeria-mali-and-niger-00891
• stone graffiti differ strongly from the human walk-ways along Maroc graffiti and at the same time from the Rift Valley along River Nile walk-ways of different tribes moving north along Africa: see Tassili N'Ajjer
• Tuareg tribes trade, sitting on a Kamel desert-wide with Salt to keep meat and fat for month fresh: ua with the
• Ghassam tribe, Gash tribe and a longtime forgotten tribe in Jordan, Syria, at least 7 000 BC, a tribe with deep knowledge of the universe similar to the Aboriginees, Australia. And mathmatical as much as geografic understanding and practical applications like architectural structures build over kilemetres for a hunting- method, which for the animals was brute. And gave a lot of meat and fat to the humans at one time, which had to be urgently preserved in Desert heat : many questions left over for more research!
• it is meritorious from arabweekly, to publish the scientific results of an international research groupe, which corresponds not always with the muslim traditions.
• https://thearabweekly.com/archaeologists-find-7000-year-old-ritual-hunt-site-jordanian-desert
• https://www.dw.com/de/9000-jahre-alter-kult-komplex-in-jordanien-entdeckt/a-60899024
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• Yoruba, Westafrica: see picture Westafrica
• Oyeronke Oyewumi, Ibadan, Berkley, 1997 Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
• Natalie Washington-Weik , Austin Texas: 1922-1955
• Elisabeth Tracy, Florida UNI 2005, updated with some Ideas of Luce Irigaray, France
• Oluwatosin Adeoti Akintah, Olabisi Onabanjo UNI, Nigeria, Ago-Iwoye
• Powerful and powerless: women in culture of Ijebu Society, South West Nigeria
• Divine women in Santeria- healing with a gendered self
• https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/643a52b2-ecec-4336-9f00-60256d44508e
• Oyeronke Okademo's feminist circle, Lydia Bosede Okanke, researchgate
• Immaculata Olu Omojola, Dr acjol.org, women in Yoruba culture
• Yemoo, Yemoja and other spellings, mother godess of waters and Orishas
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yem%E1%BB%8Dja
• found in Ita Yemoo place excavations, full of corruption- stories by white self-righteous excavators, but also by black responsables, who were making money by tomb raiding or faking figurines. This on the background of international capitalistic art market
• African Women urgently asked to find the female researchers in this culture...as some ARTE research shows them without naming!
• Angela Fagg Rakham, NOK culture: specialised on women terracotta: some of deeply interesting divers figurs which inherit by one figur at the same time 3-5 different beeings. google censurises on their search platform! Anfela talks about the humour of these womens life understanding....without false comments on their sexuality
• often figurs show different beeings, similar to Makonde ebony wood figurs before 1980, Tanzania
• See Shapona, God of Smallpox, Smallpox, still in Rituals 1950
• Some figurs show ill humans and some illnesses we can still diagnose! like Elephantiasis, goiter, small pox
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• Zulu Sangoma traditions:
• https://www.britannica.com/science/sangoma
• Prof. Gubela Mji, Stellenbosch UNI, SA
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559880/
• Gerda Hooghordel, Uni Leiden
• https://www.ascleiden.nl/content/phd-research/gerda-hooghordel-transformations-healing-processes-female-zulu-sangomas
• Tola Pearce, UNI Missouri, Nigeria
• https://www.ascleiden.nl/content/phd-research/gerda-hooghordel-transformations-healing-processes-female-zulu-sangomas