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Stealing Children to Steal the Land
LAST MONTH, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation uncovered a mass grave of 215 children on the grounds of a former residential school in British Columbia, Canada. This week on Intercepted: Naomi Klein speaks with residential school survivor Doreen Manuel and her niece Kanahus Manuel about the horrors of residential schools and the relationship between stolen…
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Decolonizing Health II: Community Efforts in Abya Yala
Slowly we perceive―like the rising of the river when it comes down from the mountain―that the rain at the top of the summit hasn’t ceded, and that we must prepare for the sudden flow. After the initial storm, like the soft roots that creep between the stones until they are broken, ideas, actions, and the…
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Restorative Justice for the Disappearance and Murder of Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada
The Government in Canada has embarked on a path of no return, exemplary, hard, full of regret, but a symbol of hope, even for all humanity. Institutionally, a truth commission was created to carry out a National Investigation on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. It is not the first continental effort to arrive…
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Two Spirits, One Heart, Five Genders
SOURCE: Indian Country Today. Indian Country Today is a daily digital news platform and nonprofit organization that covers the Indigenous world, including American Indians and Alaska Natives. This story was originally published on January 23, 2016. For European settlers the Original Peoples way of life was perplexing, including the Two Spirits tradition. “The New World.”…
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ICHR to Hold Hearing on Suppression of Indigenous Resistance to Extractive Industries – Requested by over 70 organizations from Canada, Mexico & the US
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) recently announced that it will conduct a hearing on the Suppression of Indigenous Resistance to Extractive Industries in North America. The hearing was requested by the Water Protector Legal Collective (WPLC) and the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program and is supported by over 70 national and international…
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IACHR to hold hearing on the right to indigenous resistance to extractive industries: requested by more than 70 organizations from Canada, Mexico and the United States
SOURCE: Originally published by the Water Protector Legal Collective, North America, translated into Spanish by Awasqa. Bismarck, ND – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) recently announced that it will hold a hearing on the suppression of indigenous resistance by extractive industries in North America. The hearing was requested by the Water Protector Legal…