Languages and Education
VIII Continental Congress of Indigenous Women of the Americas
More than 250 women representatives of indigenous organizations from across the Americas met in Mexico City to discuss the current political and social situation of the Americas that affects indigenou...
Mexico: “We Are Blacks from the Coast” Project
Mexico: During the colonial era, demographically, the majority population was the Indigenous People, the second-largest was of African origin, and the third was whites and mestizos of European descent...
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 Ride...
25 Years of Climate Summits Without Results: Young People and Indigenous People Express Their Exhaustion
SOURCE (translated to English by Awasqa): Educa Oaxaca After 25 years of hearing broken promises and empty rhetoric proposals, young people and indigenous peoples raised their voices at the Climate Su...
Singing Hip Hop in Native Languages to Reclaim Identities
Musical expressions are liberating and help build resilience. Some musical expressions have managed to unleash social change and others, to shape identities and resistance, but above all music is cont...
Daupará: 10th Anniversary of an Indigenous Film Festival in Colombia
For 10 years now, the nonprofit Daupará in Colombia that has led the diffusion of indigenous video and cinema as well as organized yearly festivals with the goal of “conserving, strengthening an...
Smallest Residents of Watershed Key Indicators of Overall Watershed Health
CAPTION: Mya Fisher, a Hoh tribal member in the Quileute Tribe’s Youth Opportunity Program, scans a tub for macroinvertebrates sampled from Bear Creek. Photo: D. Preston. SOURCE: Northwest Treaty Trib...
Language, Our Roots, and Justice
During most of the 20th century, national states in the US continent, almost without exception, developed policies of forced assimilation of Native peoples. The “democratic” obsession with...
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