Poverty
Shell plans to expand its dirty energy destruction in the Arctic and Canada tarsands, after leaving behind a trail of oil spills and destruction in
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May 23, 2012 // 0 Comments
Contrary to popular belief, especially among non-Natives, American Indians did not simply relinquish their rights to lands, waters, and other natural resources. Indeed, as a
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May 22, 2012 // 0 Comments
The independent documentary feature We Women Warriors follows three Native women caught between government and rebel forces. Through them the feature-length film in the
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May 21, 2012 // 0 Comments
As a teenager two decades ago, Ruth Buendía saw the Asháninka communities in Peru’s central Amazonian lowlands torn apart by violence as the Shining Path guerrillas
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May 15, 2012 // 0 Comments
The first voice you hear in the new documentary Last Call at the Oasis is Erin Brockovich’s — the famed water justice advocate whom Julia Roberts portrayed on the
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May 15, 2012 // 0 Comments
Brown, rolling plains that seem to stretch on to eternity are suddenly broken by the brilliant blue of Lake Titicaca. The lake, which sits on the border between Peru and
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May 14, 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
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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May 10, 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
Reliable, clean water will soon be available to the Navajo Nation where 40 percent of families haul their water in barrels from pumping stations. The Department of the
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May 8, 2012 // 0 Comments