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The cover of Colombia’s Semana magazine depicts a photo which should warm the cockles of any decent heart: the indigenous people of Cauca carrying an armed soldier, one of
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August 3, 2012 // 0 Comments
One of the consequences of the conquest and settlement of North and South America by Europeans was the displacement and destruction of native biological and cultural
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August 2, 2012 // 3 Comments
The Algonquins of Barriere Lake have gained an unexpected victory in their decades-long struggle to secure their land rights and protect areas of cultural, spiritual and
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August 2, 2012 // 0 Comments
*Mexikaresistance.com Note: It’s amusing how “sacrifice” is splashed across the headline of this article, yet the article itself tells a different story.
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August 1, 2012 // 0 Comments
On Thursday, August 2, 2012, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) will sit in on a Judiciary Committee hearing to—yet again—examine HR 997, the Official English Language Act, that
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What Americans just don’t get is that most people see history differently than they do. In order to break this down, every semester I show Robert Wuhl’s HBO special
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July 31, 2012 // 0 Comments
On July 11, the indigenous Nasa of Cauca, Colombia began confronting armed groups face to face and peacefully asking them to leave Nasa territories. They removed police
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Taking a page straight out of American history books, undocumented immigrants are launching a bus ride for freedom, across the Southern states, to focus attention on their
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In 1988 a few parents in the Mohawk community of Kahnawà:ke, 15 miles southwest of Montreal, decided to try to preserve the language of their elders by teaching it to their
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