Poverty
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
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
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
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
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
*Mexikaresistance.com Note: Of course members of congress refused to meet with this man. Actually recognizing that this country was established on stolen land, under
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May 7, 2012 // 0 Comments