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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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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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"Our spears are no longer enough to protect our territory." Legal triumph of the Waorani people on oil exploitation in the Amazon
After years of struggle and resistance, the Waorani communities created a territorial mapping on the biodiversity of the region that comprises its territory, led by the community and organization in the field, the Waorani Peoples of Pastaza , who have joined together to defend their ancestral territory: the last areas free from oil extraction and…
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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…
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Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack of Settler Privilege
November is Native American Heritage Month when we as American Indian people get to have the mic for a little while. So, I’d like to take my turn at the virtual mic to talk about settler privilege, something you likely have never thought of, or have never even heard of. What you have undoubtedly heard…
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Language, Our Roots, and Justice
During most of the 20th century, national states in the US continent, almost without exception, developed policies of forced assimilation of Native peoples. The “democratic” obsession with equality ended by making invisible, and in many cases, lead almost to the extinction of Native peoples’ languages, cultures, and ethnic identities. Economic inequality generated an internalized colonization…
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Indigenous Women Sing to Fight for the Amazon and for their Way of Life
It was 1973 when the first barrels of Texaco oil was carried on a large military procession from the northern Amazon in Ecuador to the seacoast for its processing and export. The parade included sullen indigenous women sitting above a tank, taken from their territories and families, most likely forcibly. The promotional video shows people…
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Indigenous Women Sing to Fight for the Amazon and Their Way of Life
The first barrels of Texaco oil were transported in a large military procession from the northern Amazon in Ecuador to the coast for processing and export in 1973. The parade included two indigenous women sitting on top of a tank, taken, most likely, by force from their territories and families. The promotional video shows people…
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The Red Road: Documenting the Lives of Northern Tribes
Two friends with a love for storytelling (Danielle SeeWalker from the Sioux tribe) and documenting life experiences in pictures (Carlotta Cardana), came together to capture the lives of Northern Tribes, of their living cultures and resilience, despite centuries of oppression. We transcribe here excerpts of their own description about the inspiration behind this project (as…