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Why Does Religion Always Get a Free Ride? | Belief | AlterNet
*Mexikaresistance.com Note: As a society, we afford a level of respect to religion that we would never dream of giving to any other crackpot beliefs. This is a great article [...]
North Dakota Shale Boom Displaces Tribal Residents
Heather Youngbird and Crystal Deegan used to live in a trailer at the Prairie Winds Mobile Home Park in the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. Last week Leroy [...]
Less Than Blood Quantum – Guest Commentary – Native News Network
*Mexikaresistance.com Note: The racist idea of “blood quantum” is echoed throughout Zemanawak by the racist concepts of “mestizaje” and the [...]
Tucson’s Ousted Mexican-American Studies Director Speaks: The Fight’s Not Over – COLORLINES
Sean Arce may not have a job anymore, but he’s still going to defend the program he used to direct. Arce, the former director of Tucson Unified School District’s [...]
Yinka Dene Alliance launch ‘Freedom Train’ Against Enbridge Pipelines & Tankers | Warrior Publications
The Yinka Dene Alliance, a leading group of British Columbia First Nations that has used its laws to ban the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines and tankers in their [...]
‘Why Do You Indians Always Live in the Past?’ – ICTMN.com
*Mexikaresistance.com Note: Great column. However, Mexicans are just as Indigenous as the Author of this essay is. This lack of recognition that we, too are Native people is [...]
Achuar Leaders In Canada To Confront Talisman Energy, Build Alliances
A group of Achuar delegates are in Canada this week to confront the Canadian oil company, Talisman Energy, for drilling for oil in their ancestral territory in the Peruvian [...]
Why Do Venezuelan Women Vote for Chavez? » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
If the the international press is to be believed, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela is a dictator, a menace to the region and is driving his country to the ground. If that [...]
Provocative, Misleading Play About Ishi Opens Wounds From California Genocide – ICTMN.com
In 1911, when Ishi emerged from his Northern California tribe’s ancestral homeland, he was alone, around 50 years old and his hair was cut, possibly because he was mourning [...]