Racism
Mexico’s HñaHñu Community Battles Illegal Immigration With Simulated Border-Crossing, Complete With Gun Shots – ICTMN.com
Forty students from a private university in Mexico City huddled together under an opaque sky waiting for orders from their coyote or guide. The evening was relinquishing its [...]
US Policies Separate Families, Kill the Sick and Create Havoc on the Mexican Border
Alberto Laborin Villa got to Mexico with what he had on: a pair of slacks and a gray dress shirt. His pockets were empty: no money and no identification. He had no phone [...]
The Court of Claims Ruling in California Indians K-344 – ICTMN.com
On October 5, 1942, the U.S. Court of Claims issued its opinion in the case California Indians K-344, which involved “Various Tribes of Indians located in California.” [...]
Mexico: Wirikuta Still Threatened Despite Government Announcement
It sounded too good to be true – and, indeed, it was. The mining company First Majestic Silver was handing over its mining concessions in the sacred lands of Wirikuta, and [...]
How to Do Right By Yourself While Busy Saving the World – COLORLINES
Everyday, organizers and advocates across the United States do vital work to help transform people, communities and society. In the midst of working to achieve these [...]
Demonizing Mexican-American Studies » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
I pick up the phone at my office at the University of Arizona and learn that I have three recorded messages waiting for me. The first one begins with the caller claiming to [...]
Epithet that divides Mexicans is banned by Oxnard school district – latimes.com
*Mexikaresistance.com Note: The racist-colonialist “mestizo” mentality continues to divide our people and deny us our true heritage. We treat being mazewaltin as [...]
Native Remains Repatriated From England and Reburied in California – ICTMN.com
How they got there is a mystery, but seven skulls and several bone fragments have made their way from the medical school at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom [...]
Sam Sommers: The Native American Mascot: Tribute or Stereotype?
In yet another chapter of a continuing debate, the State of Oregon announced last week that its public schools must discontinue the use of Native American nicknames and [...]