By Giulia McDonnell
By Giulia McDonnell
This morning, on June 28, 2016, the Director of Public Prosecutions discontinued the charges against the Santa Cruz 13. The Director also confirmed the state had “no intention to lay charges against the accused in the future.”
Sabino Romero, chief of the Indigenous Yupka community in the Sierra of Perijá, Venezuela, was murdered in March of 2013. The Yupka community claims that the suspected murderers were hired by cattle ranchers attempting to take the ancestral lands of the Yupka people. Romero was a lands activist who defended his community’s ancestral lands from cattle ranchers and mining companies.
Josephine Wildcat Bigler, one of four remaining native Yuchi speaking elders, has died at the age of 95. She was born on a Yuchi allotment in Oklahoma on May 24th, 1921. Yuchi was the primary language spoken in Josephine’s family, which included her parents, Maxey Wildcat and Lizzie Bighead Wildcat, and five siblings. Throughout her life, Josephine was active in Native American communities through her role as an educator and through her work with the United Methodist Church.
On May 10, 2016 the Library of Congress featured Native American writers on a panel, "Spotlight on Native Writers." Eric Gansworth, Linda LeGarde Grover, and Stephen Graham Jones read excerpts from their work and Deborah Miranda moderated the discussion and Q&A.
On May 10th the Library of Congress featured Native American writers on a panel, "Spotlight on Native Writers." Eric Gansworth, Linda LeGarde Grover, and Stephen Graham Jones read excerpts from their work and Deborah Miranda moderated the discussion and Q&A.
National Alliance to Save Native Languages and Chief Dull Knife College announce 2016 Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium June 6th and 7th in Billings, Montana.
In an announcement today on the Ft. Berthold Indian Reservation, the National Alliance to Save Native Languages invited Native language stakeholders and tribal leaders to attend the 23rd Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Language Symposium (SILS) in Billings, Montana June 6 and 7 at the Radisson Hotel Billings.
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Después de 11 años de conflicto socio ambiental entre el Pueblo Indígena Ngäbe y el Estado Panameño, los líderes de la comunidades Bocas del Toro, siguen exigiendo justicia en instancias internacionales.
Tony Coolidge
Among the 16 officially-recognized Indigenous tribes of Taiwan, the Bunun peoples are known for their strength, endurance and fierce nature. The people of the island’s 4th largest Indigenous group, centered in Taitung and Hualien Counties, are distinctly shorter and have a bronze complexion. They are known for the strength of their bodies and power in their voices, which suits them for surviving in the pristine, rugged mountains of southeast Taiwan.