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The Voice of Ckuri: The Revitalization of the Kunza Language in the Salta Puna Region, Argentina
We agreed to meet at a linguistics conference in the city of Salta. Our common interests were joining the sessions on glottopolitics and sociolinguistics and scant opportunities to discuss current research on the country’s indigenous languages. We wondered whether the topic had made it on the research and academic linguistic event’s agenda, after the United…
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Peru: Rights of Nature Legislation Debated in Congress, Indigenous Women Call for Action
SOURCE: Originally published by SERVINDI, translated to English by Awasqa. The National Organization of Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Women of Peru (ONAMIAP) held a sit-in to demand the approval of the bill that seeks to recognize the rights of Mother Nature. Following a call for action by the ONAMIAP, people gathered Monday morning [May 31]…
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Complementary Duality and the Popol vuj: Patriarchy, capitalism, and dispossession
SOURCE: Originally published and with authorization of La Revista de la Universidad de México, and the authors. English translation by Awasqa. Interview by Yásnaya Aguilar to Aura Cumes YÁSNAYA: From the point of view of community feminism, when the colonial order was established, there was a confluence between ancestral and Western patriarchy; other positions maintain that it…
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Indigenous Support for Palestine
Since the bombing of Gaza began in early May, killing at least 240 Palestinians and leaving behind scores of flattened buildings and family apartments, indigenous people across Abya Yala have called out for an end to settler colonialism of Palestine. Although a cease fire has been called, many see clear parallels between the resistance of…
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Urgent Call for “Treaty People Gathering” to Stop Tar Sands
We are facing a critical moment of extinction, staring at us straight on, with burning eyes that spell climate disaster. While global agencies like the International Energy Agency, a body created in 1974 specifically to ensure oil security, are calling for a phasing out of fossil fuels to transition to alternative energies; corporate oil can’t…
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Chile: Constitutional Assembly Process Mired in Inequity for Indigenous Nations
FROM THE EDITORS: This weekend, May 15 and 16, Chileans will return to the voting booth to elect 155 delegates that will convene to draft a new Constitution to replace the one drafted in 1980 under Pinochet’s dictatorship. Indigenous people were able to secure 17 reserved seats (escaños reservados) from those 155 delegates, and although…
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Colombian Indigenous People Call for Solidarity During Protests Against State Repression and Policies
FROM THE EDITORS: Colombia is living a historical period of social resistance and struggle against Ivan Duque’s government which began with a national strike on May 1st to oppose tax reform. Street protests have been met with increased violence and so far there are at least 23 dead and 35 people missing, hundreds injured. Although…
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Pachamama, Pachamamistas, and Other Labels: A Few Notes of Caution
In political debates in general, as well as in discussions about development strategies, it is very common to appeal to generalized and, therefore, ambiguous labels. Among the best known cases are the use of words like indigenous or Indian, and more recently, Pachamama. Some believe that it is enough to mention them to turn their…
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Brazil: “Our fight continues to be for life, not only against the virus”
APIB calls for the unity of the peoples: “After the worst March of our lives, we will bring April’s greatest mobilization of our struggles!“ The struggle of the indigenous peoples of Brazil to defend their land, territory, the environment, and the Amazon region of Mother Earth under their custody, has been extraordinary in exceptional conditions.…