Decolonizing Thought
To Migrate Is To Resist Colonialism
This text stems from an interview with Soledad Alvarez Velasco (Ecuadorian) and Amarela Varela Huerta (Mexican) Their words show a common sisterly fabric, an intellectual, feminist, transnational frie...
The Subtle Etymology of the Mayan Language
The first rain of the season has just fallen in the community. Five days had passed since they had finished doing the meeyjul Yuum iik'[1] known as Ch’a’acháak.[2] The farmers could not help but smile...
Oaxaca Indigenous Public Schools: Lessons Learned on Community Education
mall testimony of my participation in the implementation of Oaxaca’s Community High School model. With the emergence of the Zapatista uprising that sought the vindication of indigenous peoples during ...
Bolivia: The March for the Earth, the territory and for identity, returns home
After close to 100 days of resistance in Bolivia’s lowlands, indigenous representatives of the newly created PNIAOC decided to return home without the hoped dialogue with Luis Arce’s government
National Day of Mourning Breaks with the Thanksgiving Myth: A Radio Report
The original National Day of Mourning began with Wamsutta Frank James who decided to speak out on the pain and trauma that the Thanksgiving myth spurred inside him. Fifty-two years later, his granddau...
What is Maya, What Is To Be Maya?
The word Maya is like the seed of maize falling on fertile soil or some stony place, full of thorns, where some hungry birds lurk, desperately looking for a light breakfast in the morning. The seed th...
Indigenous Women in Brazil: “To not fight with the same weapons as the enemy, does not mean we are unarmed.”
FROM THE EDITORS: The first vote of the Supreme Court in Brasilia by Minister Edson Fachin against the “marco temporal” this September 9th was celebrated with joyful shouting by indigenous...
Ecuador: Indigenous Women Speak Out on Abortion Rights
Patricia Yallico from ACAPANA hosts the show "Insurrectas," a show posted regularly on their social media. We are featuring this conversation below with Paolina Vercoutere of the Otavalo people and An...
Stealing Children to Steal the Land
LAST MONTH, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation uncovered a mass grave of 215 children on the grounds of a former residential school in British Columbia, Canada. This week on Intercepted: Naomi Kl...