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Indigenous Health Manuals, A Contribution to the Pandemic
One of the primary sources of ancestral knowledge, treasured by humanity, is herbal medicine. Traditional indigenous medicine has its main foundation in the learning and millennial teaching of the healing power of nature, mastery in the use of infusions, poultices, mixtures , and remedies created with various plants, barks, leaves, roots, petals, juices, that applied…
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Paraguay: Facing Hunger, Poor People Help Themselves
Paraguay is mostly a mestizo country: 97% of the population speak and understand Guaraní and Spanish, their two official languages. The strong linguistic presence of the Guaraní indigenous language (it is the only country on the continent that is bilingual in a native language) is not enough for it to consider itself an indigenous country.…
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Ecuador: Agrarian revolution in the midst of crisis COVID
With the COVID-19 crisis, the Ecuadorian nation state, like many other failed states, panicked and its reactions were late, with omissions and negligence towards its civilian population. For example, two months ago, salaries to state workers were suspended , but they have not stopped paying the foreign debt, nor have they suspended oil and mining…
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Solutions for Internet Access in Isolated Regions
Native communities have depended on their economic capacity to solve their communication services. Historically, there is a global attention deficit in this regard, for example, according to World Bank data, indigenous peoples “have less than half the access to cellular telephony than non-indigenous peoples,” and “between four and six times less internet access than non-indigenous…
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More than 300 Groups in Abya Yala Demand Structural Changes Due to COVID
A coalition of more than 300 social, indigenous, peasant, union, and community organizations from multiple Latin American countries have launched a “Call of the Original Peoples, Afro-descendants and Popular Organizations of Latin America”, to make demands for immediate structural changes in the face of the global pandemic crisis. Indigenous, ethnic and social movement organizations recognize…
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Colombia: ONIC launches COVID-19 monitoring and humanitarian collective action
When it comes to resilience, indigenous people in Colombia are truly of admiration as they have been forced to take swift action to protect their people, particularly in times of crisis. Vulnerable communities are living multiple challenges in Colombia around targeted violence, extractive policies, access to food and water, exarcebated now by the coronavirus health…
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Decolonizing Health II: Community Efforts in Abya Yala
Slowly we perceive―like the rising of the river when it comes down from the mountain―that the rain at the top of the summit hasn’t ceded, and that we must prepare for the sudden flow. After the initial storm, like the soft roots that creep between the stones until they are broken, ideas, actions, and the…
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Decolonizing Health: How Native Communities Are Ramping Up COVID-19 Preparedness
Native American communities in several territories are rapidly stepping up efforts to prepare for the COVID-19 pandemic emergency. Their work is exemplary of how, despite the greater vulnerability of remote communities as well as health disparities inherited from centuries of colonial abuses, Native peoples are using every tool available to build stronger communities and help…
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Wounded Knee: A Lasting Struggle for Indigenous Rights
On December 29, the Wounded Knee massacre is commemorated in the US, where more than 300 men, women, and children lost their lives under the hands of the US military forces. The Big Foot Memorial Riders (now called the Future Generation Memorial Riders, O’maka Tokatakiya) commemorate this date through a spiritual ritual of empowerment and…
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Uninvited: How A Wampanoag’s Stand Spurred the Day of Mourning in Plymouth
High on a hill, overlooking the famed Plymouth Rock, stands the statue of our great Sachem, Massasoit. Massasoit has stood there many years in silence. We the descendants of this great Sachem have been a silent people. The necessity of making a living in this materialistic society of the white man caused us to be…