Health
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...
Indigenous Midwives and Healers Denounce Appropriation of Traditional Medicine via Mexico’s Health Law Reform
Last April, the House of Representatives approved reforms to Mexico's Health Law to regulate traditional and complementary medicine. Several indigenous and civil society groups have rejected the refor...
Peru Gives Continuity to Mining Policies without Guarantees to Human Rights
FROM THE EDITORS: From Peru, Red Muqui shares an analysis of the Ministry of Energy’s new mining program under Pedro Castillo’s government, which essentially gives continuity to past minin...
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...
Study Visibilizes Indigenous Languages in Los Angeles
In the United States, those who emigrate from the south of the border are all labeled as Latinos, coming from a “Latin” culture for speaking the Spanish colonial language. But in Abya Yala, our origin...
Amazon’s Ancestral Medicine Against COVID-19
In Ecuador, like many Latin American countries, due to the global inequity of access to vaccines against COVID-19, only 10% of the population has so far received both doses of the vaccine. Indigenous ...
Brazil: “If we don’t die from the virus, Bolsonaro’s anti-indigenous policies will kill us”
FROM THE EDITORS: The Bolsonaro government has shown an open violation of indigenous peoples’ rights either by omission or by undermining laws and institutions set to promote these rights. After...
Brazilian Court Calls for $1 Million Daily Fine to End Illegal Mining in Indigenous Lands
A federal court in Brazil has ruled that unless illegal miners or garimpeiros are removed from Yanomami lands in the next 10 days, government institutions in Brazil will be fined $1 million reais (clo...
Apache Tribe’s Innovative Approach Lowers COVID-19 Deaths
When the Indian Health Service medical team arrived in Whiteriver, Arizona, the population of the White Mountain Apache Tribe was facing a level of contagion ten times higher than the state’s av...