Languages and Education
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...
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 ...
“They’ll know more than I ever knew”: More states move to require lessons on Native American history and culture
FROM THE EDITORS: In several U.S. states, thanks to the effort and dedication of educators from the Indigenous Peoples, progress has been made in incorporating basic information on history, culture, l...
Brazil: “Our fight continues to be for life, not only against the virus”
APIB calls for the unity of the peoples: “After the worst March of our lives, we will bring April’s greatest mobilization of our struggles!“ The struggle of the indigenous peoples of...
Colectivo Epew Premiered Radio Teatro Mapuche to Rescue Oral Traditions
FROM THE EDITORS: The Epew Collective is a theater group with Mapuche and Chilean members, that works in “defense of native peoples, community art, and interculturality.” Below we reproduc...
The Challenges of Teaching Indigenous Languages to Children
FROM THE EDITORS: The following article on indigenous language pedagogy and challenges was originally published in Entremundos, an organization in Guatemala that provides support and training workshop...
Kumeyaay People Halt Construction on Border Wall
Members of the Kumeyaay Nation (Ipai-Tipai-Diegueño) launched a call to defend their ancestral territory. For at least 12,000 years, they have been living in a region that expands from San Diego Count...
Sacred Black Hills: An Origin Story that Breaks with Colonialism
UPDATE July 6: At least 15 people were arrested Friday, July 3, as activists blocked a highway to protest Trump’s speech at Mt. Rushmore, to highlight the desecration of sacred lands and as a pr...
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