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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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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…
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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)…
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Women’s Alliance repudiates violence and calls for demonstrations against hate and racism
FUENTE: Publicado Originalmente en APC Bolivia (ABI) The Alliance of Women’s Social Organizations for the Democratic and Cultural Revolution (Alianza de Organizaciones Sociales de Mujeres por la Revolución Democrática y Cultural) repudiated Friday the acts of violence that occurred in recent days in the country, by the opposition that rejects the results of the general…
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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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K-luumil X’Ko’ olelo’ob: Land of Women
Interview with Alika Santiago Trejo, October 18, 2019 I think the important thing, how we look at each other now, is to understand that our collective of indigenous women is, in itself, a necessary political action, an organization born from us, with autonomy and independence of thought. What is the K-luumil X’Ko ’olelo’ob Collective? Our…
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The Khĩsêtjê People in Brazil: Dance, Celebration and Resistance
In Wawi Indigenous Land (MT), Khĩsêtjê sing and dance until dawn to celebrate 20 years of their traditional territory retaking. Published originally on their blog by Instituto Socioambiental (ISA). Author: Isabel Harari, journalist. Photos: Christian Braga / ISA; Videos: Kamikia Kisedje y Fred Mauro / ISA. The Instituto Socieambiental is an organization that was established…
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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…