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• Ritual Visit to our Father Huaytapallana

  

  December 20, 2009  1,110 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 significance [...]

  Filed Under climate change • indigenous • Peru • racism • reclamation • Sacred Grounds • Traditions • video

• Continued Aggression Leads to Mapuche Declaration of War

  

  October 30, 2009  1,357 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 were [...]

  Filed Under Chile • indigenous • Mapuche • reclamation • violence • youth

• Mapuche communities mobilize to reclaim land

  

  August 3, 2009  1,915 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 Bachelet, [...]

  Filed Under ALERT • blockades • Chile • indigenous • Mapuche • reclamation

• Indigenous Resurgence and Traditional Ways of Being

  

  June 6, 2009  2,405 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. Recorded at [...]

  Filed Under Canada • indigenous • lecture • reclamation • tradition • video

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

  

  April 6, 2009  1,236 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 • petition • reclamation • Taiwan

• The Winnemem Way of Life: Water

  

  December 20, 2008  1,504 views 0 Comments Share

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  For countless generations the Winnemem Wintu have lived along the McCloud River watershed, in what is now northern California. Originally one of nine “Wintu” bands, the Winnemem view themselves as caretakers and protectors of water and all life – a task they accomplish through prayer, ceremony, songs, and dances. Before colonization the Winnemem numbered over 14,000 [...]

  Filed Under America • business • Energy • hydro dams • reclamation • video • water • Winnemem

• Kainai First Nation: We will hold them accountable

  

  November 26, 2008  2,156 views 0 Comments Share

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  Members of the Kainai First Nation in southern Alberta, and especially the Kainai First Nation Elders Association, are tired of having an irresponsible Band Council. They want leadership that can be held accountable for its actions, and who treats the community with respect. Right now the Chief and Council handles them as if they’re low-level employees [...]

  Filed Under band councils • Canada • colonialism • indigenous • reclamation