1st Annual People Land Truth Awards

 

IC Magazine's 1st annual

People
Land
Truth

— Awards —

Recognizing excellence in journalism

— Nominees —

30

Eight Labrador Inuit trapped in a 19th century human zoo

Review Story
France Rivet2830 words978 shares

This is the story of Abraham Ulrikab; his wife Ulrike and their two daughters Sara, 3, and Maria, 9 months; Tobias, 20; Tigianniak, a 45-year-old shaman, his wife Paingu, 50, and their daughter Nuggasak, 15. This group of eight Inuit were "trapped" in a 19th century human zoo. Since 2009, efforts have been underway to fulfill the eight Inuit's last and greatest hope: to go home.

23

Victory! Saskatchewan to Remain Nuclear Waste Free

Review Story
Sandra Cuffe906 words3713 shares

Residents of northern Saskatchewan are celebrating an important victory after a four-year, hard-fought campaign to keep the province free of nuclear waste.

8

Ecuador's Indigenous Uprising

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Jake Ling3311 words1372 shares

"As Andean winds carry mild amounts of ash from the mouth of the Cotopaxi volcano toward the Ecuadorian capital city of Quito, 500 kilometers away, a State of Emergency is in full effect..."

5

Indigenous activists block entry to the Barro Blanco hydro dam

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Richard Arghiris, Jennifer Kennedy799 words895 shares

The 15 year struggle of Tabasará river communities to protect their livelihoods, their culture, and their ancestral heritage now appears to be entering a tense new phase. With negotiations exhausted and the Barro Blanco hydro dam 95% complete, M10, a 30-strong splinter group of Ngäbe, have issued an ultimatum for the government to cancel the project. It is unclear how the government will respond.

5

Yexwase Yet: A Symbol of Hope Amidst Environmental Degradation

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Fionuala Cregan965 words149 shares

Agripina Fernández berates us for only coming to visit her community, Yexwase Yet, for a few hours. “It would take us at least two days to tell you everything we have been through,” she says, her face emanating the quiet but unwavering determination characteristic of the Enxet Sur Indigenous Peoples of Paraguay..."

4

Paved with Bad Intentions

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Heidi Bruce1146 words82 shares

The gap in the tree line—high above on the cerro—is clearly visible from the main road into the pueblo. Like a permanent scar on the landscape, it serves as an ominous reminder that the infrastructural tentacles of Mexico City have extended 54 kilometers northwest into the Ñatho (Otomí) Indigenous Community of San Franscisco Xochicuautla.

4

Inter-ethnic summit brings together 25 Indigenous nations to strengthen resistance

Review Story
Fionuala Cregan911 words594 shares

"From May 27-29, 2014, Indigenous leaders from across Argentina’s 17 provinces met in Buenos Aires and presented dramatic testimonies of human rights violations and dispossession from their ancestral lands. In all corners of the country, these Indigenous Peoples have found themselves at the forefront of the battle against oil and gas exploration, fracking, mining, hydroelectric dams and deforestation for soy cultivation..."

3

Taiwan indigenous activists win legal battle against luxury resort developer

Review Story
Glenn Smith3450 words753 shares

'Oppose Meiliwan' has been the battle cry of a wide-ranging coalition of eco-activists, Indigenous rights groups and everyday citizens for more than a decade. Meiliwan, which means 'beautiful bay', comes from the Chinese name for Miramar Resort Village, a five-star beachside property development at the tiny seaside hamlet of Shanyuan ten miles north of Taitung City. One person who has stood at the front line of this battle is Sinsing (Lin Shu-Ling), a member of the 'Amis tribe, on whose land the resort was built.

3

Changing the Narrative

Review Story
Rucha Chitnis1373 words3908 shares

"You've been trying to instruct Indians to be capitalists ever since you got here. But we don't value what you value." This quote of Onondaga Faithkeeper Oren Lyons, a respected Native American elder, in the film series Standing on Sacred Ground, sums up an indigenous worldview in sharp contrast with the modern paradigm of profiting from the Earth...

3

Teach For Canada: De- or re-colonizing Aboriginal communities in Canada?

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Tobey Steeves2045 words184 shares

"As instruments for advancing democratic values, Canada’s public schools have an ambiguous legacy. Over the years, many exclusionary and colonialist policies have been challenged, and this shift in cultural values has inspired policies to help make public schools in Canada more diverse and accessible. It is less apparent, however, that public schools in Canada have come to grips with the historical impacts, and ongoing threats, of colonialism."

2

Peru: An "anti-mining terrorist" in the making

Review Story
Servindi384 words132 shares

Diario Correo newspaper, owned by El Comercio Group, colludes with police to manufacture fraudulent news reports and delegitimize environmental protests in Islay, Arequipa, Peru.

2

Violence as Colombia's Indigenous Nasa Oppose Police And Paramilitaries In Struggle For Liberation of Mother Earth

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Robin Llewellyn2083 words353 shares

"Clashes have erupted in Colombia’s western department of Cauca as the Nasa Indigenous Peoples press the government to fulfill its promise to return 15,600 hectares to their control..."

2

This Machine Builds Movements: The Case for Indigenous Community Radio

Review Story
Courtney Parker3099 words416 shares

In 1941, famous folk musician and activist, Woody Guthrie famously stylized his guitar with the slogan: "This Machine Kills Fascists". Some short years later, community radio - another machine where music and activism would intersect to serve justice - entered stage left and began its journey towards empowering communities at the micro and macro level, in virtually every corner of the globe.

1

We Are Rebels: Western Sahara

Review Story
Luca Bellino, Silvia Luzi375 words103 shares

A documentary short about Western Sahara, the last remaining colony in Africa still waiting for its independence.

1

Recovering pre-colonial autonomy in Wallmapu

Review Story
Alejandra Gaitan Barrera1856 words116 shares

Booming economic growth, a reduction in poverty, low unemployment rates, financial stability and a safe haven for business investors. These were all the result of what Milton Friedman in early 1982 claimed to be “Chile’s economic miracle”. More than 20 years later, Chile's ruling center-left, Nueva Mayoría, has continued to engage in the predatory politics of resource extractivism so crucial to the success of the Chile's miracle. Nowhere have Chile's economic policies affected more than in the Mapuche region, known by its inhabitants as Wallmapu.

1

Aboriginal or Australian?

Review Story
Callum Clayton-Dixon1457 words802 shares

"If we're serious about forging a real future for ourselves, we must address the question of national identity.."

1

Erasing a Community in the Name of Conservation

Review Story
Alejandra Orozco-Quintero1399 words190 shares

It may seem strange that the impending eviction of the people of the coastal fishing community of Uvinje is attracting outside attention. After all, the agency evicting them is part of a powerful state apparatus built around international conservation tourism; Uvinje, on the other hand, is a small community of 21 households and a total population of just 130 people...

1

The Colonialism of the Present

Review Story
Andrew Bard Epstein3752 words1152 shares

Indigenous scholar and activist Glen Coulthard discusses the connection between indigenous and anticapitalist struggles.

0

Indigenous Maracana Community Forges Alliance with Ayotzinapa Caravan

Review Story
Courtney Parker, John Schertow1028 words65 shares

Members of the Indigenous Maracana community welcomed the Ayotzinapa Caravana 43 por Sudamerica in Rio on June 11, in what turned out to be a crucial link in the Caravan’s South American solidarity tour.

0

Count on us for peace, never for war

Review Story
Sabine Kienzl952 words122 shares

While high profile teams of government officials and representatives of Colombia's main leftist guerrilla group, the FARC, try to negotiate a peace deal in Havana, Indigenous Peoples continue to be killed in their territories...

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