Tag: Elders
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Stop The Crackdown In Ngaba! Support the People of Tibet!
For the past 12 weeks, a Tibetan Monastery in the Ngaba area of eastern Tibet has been under siege by the Chinese government. An “uneasy peace” has been forced on the Tibetans; however the situation remains tense. Please see below for a list of things you can do to support the Tibetan people. On March…
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3rd Annual International Indigenous Leadership Gathering
The 3rd Annual International Indigenous Leadership Gathering will take place in Xaxl’ip, St’át’imc Territory from May 30th to June 5th, 2011. Speakers at this year’s event include Mona Polacca, one of the 13 Grandmothers; Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe of the Lakota; René Franco Salas, Elder…
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Alaskan Native Human Rights Violated; Fast Ongoing, More Protests Planned
On February 8, 52-year-old Gwich’in and Yup’ik activist Desa Jacobsson started to fast in protest of “the comprehensive violation of subsistence rights and continued de-humanization” of Indigenous Peoples in Alaska by State Governor Sean Parnell, the Calista Corporation, and the Federal Subsistence Board. In a letter that was hand-delivered to the offices of Governor Parnell,…
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Underreported Struggles #46, January 2011
In this month’s Underreported Struggles: Botswana Court of Appeal reaffirms San water rights; Iban communities set up three blockades in Sarawak; Oil drilling suspended near Lakota Sacred Site. About 100 indigenous people staged a protest in front of Taiwan’s Presidential Office to demand an apology, a treaty and the return of ancestral lands. Elders at…
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Wisdomkeepers by Harvey Arden
[vimeo url=”http://vimeo.com/5313449″ title=”0″ fs=”0″ portrait=”0″] Harvey Arden is a former Senior Writer for National Geographic and Author of numerous books, including “Noble Red Man: Lakota Wisdomkeeper Mathew King”, “Travels in a Stone Canoe: The Return to the Wisdomkeepers”, and “Have You Thought of Leonard Peltier Lately?” He is also the Editor for Leonard Peltier’s own…