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Tribes Lead the Way to Revive Regional Salmon Runs
This article first appeared on smea.uw.edu/currents, a student-run blog about pressing environmental issues, hosted by the University of Washington School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, “Tribes Lead the Way to Revive Regional Salmon Runs” By George Thomas Jr. We are all salmon people, and we know what we need to do. Such was the message…
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25 Years of Climate Summits Without Results: Young People and Indigenous People Express Their Exhaustion
After 25 years of hearing broken promises and empty rhetoric proposals, young people and indigenous peoples raised their voices at the Climate Summit in Madrid (COP25) to express their tiredness and anger at the inaction of governments and the leading economies of the world faced with the degradation of the planet by the climatic change.…
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Brazil: Planned Extermination of Indigenous People in Voluntary Isolation
From Awasqa Editors: Deep in the Amazon rainforest live one of the most vulnerable populations: indigenous tribes in voluntary isolation, or uncontacted tribes that have chosen to live away from civilizatory colonial advances of “modern” society. Their exact population is unknown but it spans across several borders in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, and other…
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A Renewed Legal Battle Against DAPL
By Mike Faith, Chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Originally Published by Standing Rock Sioux Tribe In 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s peaceful and principled opposition to a new crude oil pipeline crossing our ancestral homelands and our water source captured the world’s attention. Although the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) has been operating…
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Historic march of the Mapuche Nation in Temuco, Chile
SOURCE: Periódico Fewla (independent Mapuche community newspaper), translated to English by Awasqa. Photos and video: Radio Kvrruf The call for action represents the support of the Lof [community leaders] and communities in resistance, and of the different Mapuche organizations, to the process of mobilization of the Chilean society that seeks for equity and justice. The…
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Ten Years After Coup in Honduras, Mobilizations of Native and Black People Persevere, Make Demands
Ten years after the coup d’etat that brought down President Manuel Zelaya’s government, the consequences lived in the country still generate serious conditions for social coexistence, legality and even the viability of functions of the national state. Members of the Indigenous and Black Organizations of Honduras (COPINH / OFRANEH), have suffered the most from the…
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Argentina: The Rebellion of Native Flowers
On October 9, an initiative of Self-Convened Women from 13 nations from Argentina, decided to request a hearing with the Minister of the Interior, to propose an agenda of demands, in defense of water, against extractive and development projects in indigenous territory. When they were not received, they decided to wait there, until they were…
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Indigenous nations in Ecuador declare “state of exception,” denounce neoliberal and extractivist policies on sovereign lands
In a stunning act of defiance, the largest indigenous organizations in Ecuador—CONAIE and CONFENIAE—declared a “state of exception” on sovereign indigenous lands, to reject military and policie presence on their terrorities and the right to detain such forces if they were to illegally enter or use repressive tactics on their lands. They did so after…