reclaiming cultural identity
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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July 31, 2012 // 0 Comments
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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July 30, 2012 // 0 Comments
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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Mexikaresistance.com founder Kurly Tlapoyawa has written a short essay analyzing Mexikah cosmovision and how it continues to be misinterpreted by mainstream scholars. It is
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July 24, 2012 // 0 Comments
*Mexikaresistance.com Note: The “mestizo” and the concept of “mestizaje” are sad throwbacks to a racial grading system that measured the value of
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July 24, 2012 // 0 Comments
Almost every year, for the week of the Fourth of July, my family makes the twelve-hour drive from their homes in Michigan to what they call their “farm.” The land has
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July 21, 2012 // 0 Comments
Indigenous Colombians who say they are fed up being in the crossfire of the country’s long-running conflict have forcibly removed soldiers from a strategic hilltop, at
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July 18, 2012 // 0 Comments
The moment Carmen Fought laid eyes on the man in the hallway of a Pomona courthouse, she was certain he was white. Then his lips parted, and Fought did an about-face. Now she
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July 17, 2012 // 1 Comment