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• Apples and Indians

  

  August 28, 2010  1,612 views 4 comments Share

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  Apples and Indians is a whimsical and profound 5-minute ride that sees Lorne Olson speeding through decades in search of his true identity. When Lorne Olson was a young boy, growing up on the Broken Head Reserve in Manitoba, a teacher told him that "Indians are like apples. They may be red on the outside [...]

  Filed Under Canada • Indigenous Peoples • reclamation • video

• Save Your Language! Conference, June 5-6th in Vancouver, BC

  

  May 21, 2010  265 views 3 comments Share

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  From June 5th-6th, 2010, three language revitalization activists will be hosting the “Save Your Language” Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. The important two-day conference will introduce a new method that anyone can use to become fluent in any language. For details on the conference and to learn how to register, visit http://saveyourlanguage.wordpress.com. The registration deadline [...]

  Filed Under conferences • language • reclamation

• Ritual Visit to our Father Huaytapallana

  

  December 20, 2009  1,121 views 1 comment Share

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  In this video, Quechan villagers carry out an ancient tradition of seeking guidance from an Apu, or sacred Mountain, in the Andes of Peru. Produced by the villagers in September 2009, the video has become enormously symbolic for the Quecha, leading many villagers to once again take up their traditions of nurturing Mother Earth. The [...]

  Filed Under climate change • Indigenous Peoples • Peru • racism • reclamation • Sacred Sites • Traditions • video

• Continued Aggression Leads to Mapuche Declaration of War

  

  October 30, 2009  1,415 views 0 Comments Share

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  Continued aggressions of the Chilean state has led the Arauco Malleco Coordinator of Mapuche Communities in Conflict (CAM), a radical indigenous Mapuche organization, to formally renounce their Chilean citizenship and declared war on the government. The declaration was issued on Oct. 20, the same day that two trucks belonging to the El Bosque forestry corporation [...]

  Filed Under Chile • evictions • Indigenous Peoples • Mapuche • reclamation • violence • youth

• Mapuche communities mobilize to reclaim land

  

  August 3, 2009  1,929 views 4 comments Share

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  Several Mapuche communities have begun to reclaim traditional lands in Araucania, central Chile. The reclamation began on July 23, about 2 weeks after the government of Michelle Bachelet refused to sit down with a group of Mapuche activists and talk about their concerns as Indigenous People. The activists had traveled 680 km to meet with [...]

  Filed Under ALERT • blockades • Chile • Indigenous Peoples • Mapuche • reclamation

• Indigenous Resurgence and Traditional Ways of Being

  

  June 6, 2009  2,476 views 2 comments Share

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  University of Victoria Professor of Indigenous Governance Gerald Taiaiake Alfred talks about the "Resurgence of Traditional Ways of Being: Indigenous Paths of Action and Freedom." On March 23, 2009, Kanienkeha (Mohawk) Educator, Author and Activist Gerald Taiaiake Alfred took part in the Simon Ortiz and Labriola Centre Lecture series on Indigenous Land, Culture and Community. [...]

  Filed Under Canada • Indigenous Peoples • lectures • reclamation • Traditions • video

• Support Siraya and other low-land indigenous peoples of Taiwan

  

  April 6, 2009  1,248 views 1 comment Share

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  On May 2nd, 2009, the Siraya people, one of several low-land Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan, will be gathering in Taipei for a peaceful protest to demand the formal redress of their status by the government. The Siraya are currently on record as being "ripe (savage)", an undeniably racist label that became official in the early [...]

  Filed Under Indigenous Peoples • petition • reclamation • Taiwan