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19 years later: On the Fraudulent theft of Mohawk Land
While the “Oka Crisis” has been long buried by most Canadians, the Fraudulent theft of land that led to it remains completely unresolved, as Ellen Gabriel from the Mohawk community of Kanehsatake illustrates in this press release. Issued to mark the “Oka Crisis”— which began exactly 19 years ago today, on July 11, 1990–Garbiel outlines a [...]
Victory! Brazil Supreme Court Affirms Indigenous Land Rights
Indigenous people are celebrating after a majority of Brazil’s Supreme Court judges ruled to uphold indigenous land rights in Raposa-Serra do Sol. Marking the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, eight of the courts’ eleven judges yesterday “affirmed the Indians’ rights to the land, saying it had been demarcated according to the constitution,” [...]
Listen and Accept Our Voice
Listen and Accept Our Voice, is a video presentation created in response to the Northern Territory and Federal Government’s ongoing program of dispossession, impoverishment, criminalization, and assimilation of indigenous communities in Australia — a program that was first brought forward in the summer of 2007, under the guise of “saving the children.” The film consists of [...]
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