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Indigenous Peoples
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US Embassy, DEA Obstructing Investigation Into Drug War Killings in Honduras
The failure to provide answers about what happened last year has shed light on the DEA's questionable methods.
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How Would American Indians Teach US History?
In these excerpts from Four Arrows' Teaching Truly: A Curriculum to Indigenize Mainstream Education, history is viewed as an opportunity to learn those truth-seeking stories that sustain a society.
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Rios Montt and Arpaio: Where Impunity Reigns
What themes tie together the stories of Guatemala's former dictator Rios Montt and of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County in Arizona?
The Price of Power to a Nation
On the sprawling Navajo Nation and the Hopi Reservation it surrounds, Peabody Western Coal Company routinely uproots families to extract coal that provides cheap electricity for much of the …
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A Sequel to “Senselessness”: Fiction and Genocide in Guatemala
Horacio Castellanos Moya's extraordinary novel, ‘Senselessness’, could almost be said to be predictive of the overturning of former Guatemalan dictator's Efrain Rios Montt's conviction for genocide and crimes against …
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Housing Crisis on the Rez: Why Haul a Run-Down Shack From the Plains to DC?
Tribal leaders trucked the battered old home to Washington to show the nationu2019s leaders what the housing crisis on reservations looks like in person.
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Guatemala Genocide Conviction and a More Just Vision for American Continent
The original idea of America empowered murderous regimes like that of Rios Montt in Guatemala
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Mexico – Ground Zero in the Fight Against Monsanto for the Future of Maize
Mexico, the birthplace of maize, is at the centre of the global fight to protect the cropu2019s diversity
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Indigenous Resistance Grows Strong in Keystone XL Battle
The fight against the Keystone XL is bringing indigenous nations together.
Fears Peru’s Gas Expansion will Generate Conflict in UNESCO World Heritage Site
In Peru, there is concern that the planned expansion of the country's biggest gas project deeper into its Kugapakori-Nahua-Nanti Reserve will generate conflict between the different groups of indigenous …