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Zapalote Chico, the corn that fights transgenics and the people defending it
Zapotec farmers are joining forces to achieve a sustainable diet using the heirloom “zapalote chico”. This important native landrace of corn is threatened by the [...]
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Early Native Americans Imported Exotic Parrots, DNA Reveals
For more than two millennia, indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica have traded macaws and included their feathers in rituals. The birds held immense symbolic value and [...]
Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science
[ mexika.org ] via Science Based Medicine We live in a post-truth, anti-intellectual world where intuition, “common sense,” and fake news are often preferred to [...]
Recreating Mixteca Weaponry
The 60 replicas of weapons that make up the exhibition, organized by INAH, through the Proyecto Arqueologico Mixteca Alta Oaxaquena y Atlatl Mexico, are a selection that [...]
Trump has declared war on Chaco Canyon
[ mexika.org ] Via NYtimes | In the remote high desert of northwestern New Mexico lie the threatened ruins of Chaco Canyon, arguably the most significant cultural site on [...]
68 different ways to say “Corn” in Indigenous Mexican languages.
[ Kurly Tlapoyawa ] Corn is one of the great contributions made by Mesoamerican civilizations to the world. Modified and manipulated by the hands of our indigenous ancestors, [...]
We must defend Chaco Canyon
[ mexika.org ] via theguardian.com | In Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, it is still possible to wander the maze of rooms of an ancestral Puebloan village erected roughly 1,000 [...]
Debunking Pseudoscience regarding Native DNA
[ mexika.org ] Dr. Jennifer Raff recently gave an excellent lecture at Skepticon regarding Native DNA and the use of pseudohistory and conspiracy fetishism to promote [...]
New light shed on early turquoise mining in Southwest — ScienceDaily
[ mexika.org ] Turquoise is an icon of the desert Southwest, with enduring cultural significance, especially for Native American communities. Yet, relatively little is known [...]
How America Lost Its Mind – The Atlantic
When did America become untethered from reality?I first noticed our national lurch toward fantasy in 2004, after President George W. Bush’s political mastermind, Karl Rove, [...]
