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You Are on Indian Land was one of the first films in Canada to give voice to the concerns of Indigenous People. Produced in 1969, the film documents a protest that was led by
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May 11, 2012 // 0 Comments
*Mexikaresistance.com Note: I can certainly appreciate what this guy is doing, but I am not crazy about the “we are all American” message. How about “we are
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May 11, 2012 // 0 Comments
How does the brutality of a 500-plus-year-old trade agreement between competing Christian European countries impact contemporary indigenous women all over the world?
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May 10, 2012 // 0 Comments
*Mexikaresistance.com Note: Of course, by “latinos” they actually mean “brown-skinned indigenous people.” Federal authorities said Wednesday that they
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This sprawling Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is a Connecticut-sized zone of prairie and poverty, where the have-nots are defined less by the money they lack than by
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COMING OF age in the United States in the late 1960s and 1970s, it was almost impossible to not hear about Cesar Chavez, the man most often identified with beginning the
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May 10, 2012 // 0 Comments
One of the most significant declarations ever to emanate from the United Nations, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, is belittled—mocked, almost—by the
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May 9, 2012 // 0 Comments
There is a certain North American arrogance that our ‘first world’ privilege will buffer us from the effects of climate change, that ‘other’ countries
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May 9, 2012 // 0 Comments
A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a step
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May 8, 2012 // 0 Comments
Ottawa needs to consider a flexible exit strategy for British Columbia First Nations frustrated and debt-challenged by slow-moving treaty negotiations, says a special report
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May 8, 2012 // 0 Comments