reclaiming cultural identity
Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot of White people screaming about racism. I wish these were anti-racist ally White people who were speaking about the prison industrial
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August 24, 2013 // 0 Comments
Last December, tens of thousands of indigenous Zapatistas mobilized, peacefully and in complete silence, to occupy five municipal government office buildings in the state of
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August 14, 2013 // 0 Comments
For over two years the Triqui people of San Juan Copala, an autonomous municipality, have been a dispossessed people. Forced to leave their homes by a wave of paramilitary
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January 18, 2013 // 0 Comments
Seemingly few people realize that when the state came after Ethnic Studies in Arizona a few years ago, it was because the state deemed Raza Studies to be outside of western
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October 17, 2012 // 0 Comments
Presently in the United States two great debates encumber the daily reality of we indigenous migrants communities. One is the debate over immigration reform and the other is
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September 20, 2012 // 0 Comments
In English grammar we find pronouns for first person (“I’), second person (“you”), and third person plural (“we”). I’d like to add focus on the colonizing
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September 13, 2012 // 0 Comments
The skeleton is that of a young woman, perhaps an Aztec noble, found intact and buried in the empire’s most sacred spot more than 500 years ago. Almost 2,000 human bones
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September 3, 2012 // 0 Comments
Three bills now making their way through Sacramento promise to dramatically improve conditions for California farmworkers, including one that requires overtime pay for shifts
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August 29, 2012 // 0 Comments
The Lower Elwa Klallam, a federally recognized Indigenous Nation located on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, have had much to celebrate in the last month: the
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August 29, 2012 // 0 Comments
One of the common problems in Indian Country—in both rural and urban areas—is the lack of nutritious food options available a short distance from home. A term that is
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August 28, 2012 // 0 Comments