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  • Youth Processes in the Revitalization of the Palenquera Language

    Youth Processes in the Revitalization of the Palenquera Language

    The Palenquera language is one of the most emblematic cultural expressions of San Basilio de Palenque, a living testimony to the resilience and identity of its people. However, like many minority languages, it faces the threat of extinction due to the influence of Spanish, globalization, and sociocultural changes. In this context, youth participation has been…

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    Youth Processes in the Revitalization of the Palenquera Language

    The Palenquera language is one of the most emblematic cultural expressions of San Basilio de Palenque, a living testimony to the resilience and identity of its people. However, like many minority languages, it faces the threat of extinction due to the influence of Spanish, globalization, and sociocultural changes. In this context, youth participation has been…

    Singing Hip Hop in Native Languages to Reclaim Identities

    Musical expressions are liberating and help build resilience. Some musical expressions have managed to unleash social change and others, to shape identities and resistance, but above all music is contributing significantly to keeping Native languages ​​and expressions alive. Indigenous languages ​​are living, active languages ​​that grow and are renewed, for example, when young people take…

    Water, Mexico and Its Many Hidden Names

    By Yásnaya Elena A. Gil,* presentation at the Mexican Congress on February 28, 2019, to mark the international year of indigenous languages. Nëwemp “the place of water”, mixe. Giajmïï “about water”, chinateco. Nangi ndá “the land in the middle of water”, mazateco. Kuríhi “inside water”, chichimeco. Nu koyo “humid town”, mixteco. It was the name…

  • Border Tuner ‏ @BorderTuner Nov 20 What's your border story? You can share your story until Sunday, November 24. Plan your visit today at https://es.bordertuner.net/visit . And don't forget to visit "Remote Pulse" a project within the Border Tuner site. ?: Mariana Yañez #BorderTuner #SintonizadorFronterizo

    Jumping the Mexico-USA Wall with Art, Light and Sound

    By Awasqa. Mexican-Canadian electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, with the Border Tuner Project, has managed to connect Chamizal Park in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and Bowie High School in El Paso, Texas beyond the wall that separates these two communities. This is a deep connection, of the soul of two cities through intangible but susceptible materials: Light,…

  • Uncontacted Yanomami peoples, in the Funai registry: the pressure comes from loggers and seekers. Photo: CGLRC / Funai

    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…

    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…

  • Oscar Montero. Foto: ONIC

    Times of Life and Death: Building Resilience Through Historical Memory in Colombia

    On November 18 the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC) together with the National Center for Historical Memory (CNMH) released a report on historical memory on structural violence against indigenous peoples, a project that began in 2017. Below we provide a translation from ONIC´s website on the significance of such report in their future struggles…

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    Indigenous People Will Not Be Erased

    NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH Some may call the celebration of Native American Heritage Month merely a symbolic gesture. But symbols and the movements behind them matter. BY CRYSTAL ECHO HAWK, NICK TILSEN – NOVEMBER 8, 2019, Originally published by NDN Collective For nearly three decades, the month of November has been recognized as Native American…

    Bolivia: They Want to Shut Us Up Again with Guns and “the Word of God”

    EDITORIAL NOTE: The situation in Boliva is immensely complicated and cannot be reduced to a simple “imperialist coup d’etat.” Undoubtedly, the mandate of Evo Morales, set to end on January 20, 2020, was prematurely interrupted, who was forced to resign along with his entire cabinet (vice president, presidents of Congress and yesterday, Minister of Defense)…