Arts and Culture
Peru’s Constitutional Court’s Racist Disregard for the Right to Consultation and the ILO Convention No. 169
SOURCE: http://aidesep.org.pe/node/13825, originally posted on March 4, translated to English by Awasqa. Declaration by the Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana (AIDESEP) The Peruv...
A Zapotec Reflection On Freedom: Mom, How Do You Allow Yourself To Do What You Desire?
Freedom is a concept used in multiple ways to limit, cancel, or break community processes, especially those related to indigenous peoples. That is what the editors of Tzam: Las Trece Semillas Zapatist...
Tosenyot: Democracy Is Unity and a Deep Commitment for Community
Tosenyot, that’s how our ancestors called it. It means “our essential unity.” Our unwavering bond as Maseual people. Together with our contradictions, or strains, our joys, and our love. We are a comm...
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 ...
Learning to Feel Babies Inside Us: Wisdom from Majosik, Chiapas
This beautiful article is part of the Tzam Trece Semillas Zapatistas project, a plural, multicultural space that proposes a dialogue (tzam means dialogue in Ayapaneco) between communities, ideas, proj...
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...
The Return of Rammay
Long before there was ever any paper that said it belonged to someone, the land was here. Rammay is the ancestral land of the tribe some times called Ohlone. This is the story of the land and its Rema...