We Don’t Want Our Islands to Be Used to Kill People
Across the Pacific, Indigenous communities lead a growing wave of sovereignty against ongoing legacies of Western colonialism in the region, from the assault on Māori rights in Aotearoa to the…
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Canada Inquiries Expose Extreme Injustices to indigenous People Including ‘Cultural Genocide’ and Violence against Women
“For over a century , the central goals of Canada’s Aboriginal policy were to eliminate Aboriginal governments, ignore Aboriginal rights, terminate the treaties, and, through a process of assimilation, cause…
The Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
On August 9, 2001, in Colombia, riot police and private security forces from the Cerrejón coal mine — one of the largest open-pit coal mines in the world — surrounded…
Brazil: Indigenous land rights victories are a win for the planet
Recent decisions for Native communities’ land rights mark historic defeats for agribusiness, mining giants, illegal settlers, and the far-right politicians who support them. Just this last May, capitalism’s insatiable agribusinesses and…
A Losing Voice: The Fall of an Indigenous Referendum Measure
Even before October 14, The Voice, or, to describe in full, the Referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament, was in dire straits. Referenda proposals are…
Canada Needs Urgent Reforms to Bring Long-Delayed Justice to its Indigenous People
Canada is in an exceptionally good position to adopt a justice-based policy towards its indigenous people. It has plentiful land and it is a sparsely populated country. Canada’s area is…
Wildfires, Indigenous People and Very Sad History
In recent years wildfires have spread uncontrollably over very vast areas in American and Australian continents, causing immense losses including loss of human and animal life and endangering environment in…
Understanding and embodying the commons to save the world from multiple crisis
Last year, I had the opportunity to work with the youth from the indigenous/ tribal more aptly called the Adivasi communities in India in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve across the…
Decolonizing Environmentalism
We are witnessing a historical push toward the dismantling of imperialism, the decentralization of power, and the welcoming of non-White, non-European values into conservation. Whenever you talk about race relations…
Indigenous people stage heroic protests against law stripping them of land rights in Brazil
Lawmakers in Brazil authorised a proposal that will unleash a mortal blow to Indigenous land rights and environmental protection. On the 30th of May the National Congress of Brazil passed…
Environment Ministry revokes protected status for Indigenous lands in Ecuador
In Ecuador’s ’Referendum 2023’ on Sunday 5 February, citizens voted on eight government proposals for Constitutional reform, including one that affects the governance of Water Protection Areas (APH) and…
What Does It Mean for the Dispossessor to “Compensate” the Dispossessed?
Settlers enjoyed a seeming free permission: to dispossess natives at will of all the best land, turn them out of traditional fishing locations, disrespect elders, women, children and religion, leave…
What Do an Apology, Reconciliation, and a Sacred Obligation to Constitutionally Guaranteed Rights of First Nations Look Like in Canada?
They send a hundred RCMP to go protect a pipeline and not protect people’s lives so we need to push back. They put industry, they put fracking, they put gas…
Indigenous Leaders Call for Landback Reforms and Climate Justice in “Required Reading”
As the world watches what transpires at COP26, the United Nations climate summit taking place this week in Glasgow, the U.N. has blasted governments and businesses for utterly failing to meet their climate obligations. There’s a…
Indigenous people hit by double whammy, is COP26 listening?
For the last ten days I have opened the COP26 daily programme website each morning to search for the events that may interest me. And I have been overwhelmed by…
An Indigenous peoples’ approach to climate justice
Climate change has been identified as the “defining issue of our time” by many of the world’s leading experts and the diagnosis of planetary health is dire. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform…
Indigenous People of Brazil Fight for Their Future
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has given new license to the killing of Indigenous people in Brazil. Before he came to power in 2019, it wasn’t clear what he wanted to build, but…
Ireland And The Wabanaki
The first colonial settlers arrived in New England at about the same time as they arrived in Ireland. These settler-colonialists (planters) expropriated a half-million acres of arable land under the…
1,100 Children Graves in Canada found, Queen Elizabeth II and Victoria statues toppled, 7 Churches lighted
Statues of Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Victoria were torn down by protesters in Winnipeg, Canada. The latest acts of protests followed a spree of attacks on Catholic churches built on First…
7 Things I Learned by Collaborating with Indigenous Wisdom Keepers
I first met Indigenous wisdom keepers as a child. After days of off-road driving to the Gran Sabana in Venezuela, we had arrived at the ancestral lands of the Pemón…
Protecting Indigenous Languages is Protecting Biodiversity
One million animal and plant species face extinction due to human activity, according to the United Nations. Now, think about cultural production—art and literature that we have invested to address…
25th November: a Day of Dignity for the Selk’nam People
Though the 25th of November marks a dark time in their history, members of the Indigenous community Selk'nam Covadonga Ona are reclaiming the date as a ‘Day of Dignity’ in their ongoing struggles.…
Indigenous People of Mexico Fight More Than Pandemic
In Mexico, the intensity of the Covid-19 pandemic is increasing. With more than 480,000 cases and 50,000 deaths (third largest number of Covid-19 deaths), the country is staggering under the…
The Attack on Indigenous Rights in Brazil
On 5 August, 2020, the Brazilian Supreme Court ordered President Jair Bolsonaro to institute measures aimed at protecting indigenous people from the Covid-19 pandemic. This ruling is the legal recognition…
About half of Oklahoma is Native American land, rules U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that about half of the land in Oklahoma is within a Native American reservation. The court ruling will have major consequences for both past…
The Hypocrisies of Recognition: The Supreme Court, Native Americans and the McGirt Case
The Supreme Court of the United States has barely had time to gather its collective breath this last few days. Among its decisions, including those dealing with President Donald Trump’s…
Indigenous Peoples and Religious Freedom in AbyaYala– Latin America: Reflections from a European Point of View
Assassinating Berta Cáceres, a Maya-Lenka Women from Honduras in 2016, shows in a brutal way, that the recognition of indigenous religions in AbiaYala-Latin America is not only an interreligious,…
260 Million Indigenous Peoples Marginalised, Discriminated
Asia is home to the largest number of indigenous peoples on Earth, with an estimated 260 million of a total of 370 million original inhabitants worldwide. In spite of their…
Sub-Humans — Just What Are We To Do with Them, The Vermin?
I just now read an article that states: Native American slavery “is a piece of the history of slavery that has been glossed over,” says Linford D. Fisher, associate professor…
Amazon Fires Threaten To Wipe Out Uncontacted Indigenous People
Forest fires are raging in an indigenous territory on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon, threatening to wipe out uncontacted members of the Awá tribe. Small groups of neighboring Guajajara…
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