Truthout
Indigenous Peoples
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Native American Tribes Seek Help from UN, World Court
A group of indigenous peoples from the US and Canada joined in a “Unity Ride” to the UN to plead for their sacred sites and their way of life …
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“They Fear Us Because We Are Fearless”: Reclaiming Indigenous Lands and Strength in Honduras
Multinational corporations are moving into Central America to exploit gold and other minerals, rivers, forests, and agricultural lands. One area of high interest in the corporate feeding frenzy is …
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Dreams, Courage and Footsteps
Among those who have left their mark in Mexican-American history, are the Dream 9, undocument US citizens since they were small children, who face charges having challenged US immigration …
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Colombian Connection: Canadian Neocolonialism in the Global South
Canada's involvement in social and ecological injustices in Colombia often goes unremarked.
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Australia’s Election Campaign Driven by Barbarism That Dares Not Speak its Name
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, using the fear card to gain reelection.
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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 …