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Afro-Bolivians in Bolivia: “WE OF THE SAYA” please support them and “like” them on Facebook!!
WE OF THE SAYAis an insightful documentary that follows a struggling Afro-Bolivian farmer who joins a grassroots movement for the Afro-Bolivian community to achieve national recognition as a legitimate ethnic group while Bolivia struggles to redefine itself as a new country.
NOSOTROS LOS DE LA SAYA es un documental que sigue una campesina afroboliviana que se une a un movimiento de base para la comunidad afroboliviana en nombre de lograr el reconocimiento nacional como un grupo étnico legítima, mientras que Bolivia se lucha redefinirse como un nuevo país.
Yesss, please support her. I know the filmmaker and was in the process of being one of the helpers on the project but I was already busy with my current one but I really wished I was part of it and pulled a Harry Potter time turner. It’s a wonderful piece.
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Novia (Bride) - Pinotepa de Don Luis: Oaxaca, Mexico
This young bride is “from the town of Pinotepa de Don Luis, “a town and municipality in the Jamiltepec District, west of the Costa Region of Oaxaca, Mexico.”
The bride wears a huipil of Pinotepa de Don Luis - very simple with little embroidery - ” one of her arms in the arm openings of the huipil. The other arm is inside the garment. This is the way that huipiles were worn for weddings. If the woman is buried in her wedding huipil, both arms will be placed through the armholes.”
“The photo of the young Mixtec bride was published in Volume One of The Ephemeral and the Eternal of Mexican Folk Art (1971). The photographer is identified as Irmgard W. Johnson.”
- information courtesy of Teyacapan.
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Peace and Dignity Journeys
Cherán, Michoacán
October, 2012For more information, visit Support PDJ
Photo via Juan José Estrada Serafín
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This “performance” from the Philadelphia Mummers Parade may singlehandedly destroy the white race. This is SO, SO, SO RACIST that there might actually be a time-lag before people say I’m being “overly sensitive” and “politically correct.” I’m offended as a human, American, Indian & a comedian.
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Indigenous Is
Indigenous is not a skin color,
Indigenous is not my nose,
Indigenous is not my eye color,
Indigenous is not my lips,Indigenous is not romanticizing ancient teachings,
To appropriate,
To disseminate,
To cut to pieces,
And abbreviate in a research document,
Indigenous is removing layers of shame from your ancestors trail,
Indigenous is stepping up to the plate,
Healing and creating a new way for future generations,
Indigenous is standing tall,
Indigenous is standing beautifully,
Indigenous is an honor.
~ Anishinaabekwe
Painting © Ernesto Hernandez Olmos, Mother Earth
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“Our people—our beautiful, indigenous people—are rising. I’m sick of colonization telling us that we are criminals, telling us that we’re no good, telling us that we don’t deserve what is ours. Stephen Harper: We’re coming together. It’s not just a flash mob. If our lady, Theresa Spence, passes away, we’re showing the entire country what kind of power we have.”
- JB the First Lady
Idle No More Sweeps Canada and Beyond as Aboriginals Say Enough Is Enough
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Chief Theresa Spence Resolute in Hunger Strike, as Her Body Weakens
As Attawapiskat First Nation chief Theresa Spence enters her 13th day of a hunger strike protest on December 24—surviving on only medicine tea and fish broth in a tipi near Parliament Hill—supporters say her strength is ebbing, but her resolve is not.
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At its peak, the Maya civilization had one of the richest cultures in the Americas. Today, ethnic Mayas in central America and Mexico suffer from discrimination, exploitation and poverty.
In Guatemala, where nearly half of the population is indigenous, descendants of the once-mighty ancient civilization have even fallen victims to genocide.
The rich Mayan culture will be in the global spotlight Friday when revelers — and doomsday watchers — will mark the end of a 5,200-year era as sketched out in the elaborate Mayan calendar.
But the plight of indigenous Mayas in the region will likely go undiscussed.
“The indigenous population was always seen as cheap labor and this persists to this day,” said Guatemalan anthropologist Alvaro Pop, a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
“They are seen as a tool and are not the focus of public policies.”
The Maya civilization reached its peak between the years 250 and 900, but then slipped into decline around 1200.
Three centuries later, during Spanish colonization, the Mayas were dispossessed of their lands and reduced to poverty as well as servitude.
Today, there are currently an estimated 20 to 30 million direct descendants of the ancient civilization living in southern Mexico, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, where the indigenous group is most prevalent.
In Guatemala, ethnic Mayas often find themselves on the margins of society, with limited access to education, health care and other basic services. Their native languages are not officially recognized.
Within the indigenous community, which accounts for 42 percent of Guatemala’s 14.3-million-strong population, the poverty rate is 80 percent.
Nearly six in 10 indigenous children suffer from chronic malnutrition, and the infant mortality rate has hit an alarming rate of 40 per 1,000 live births, according to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
In Mexico, social misery and exploitation led to the creation in 1994 in Chiapas state of the media-savvy but later weakened Zapatista National Liberation Army, which drew attention to the community’s plight.
But ethnic Mayas paid perhaps the heaviest price during Guatemala’s civil war that pitted the army against leftist guerrillas from 1960 to 1996.
“There were external reasons which exacerbated the population’s poverty and led to a stigmatization of indigenous people,” according to Pop.
More than 600 massacres of indigenous communities were recorded during that period and tens of thousands of Indians sought refuge in southern Mexico from the brutal counter-insurgency by the military, according to a 1999 UN report.
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This.
Do ya’ll even know what happened yesterday in Canada?
Shit is getting real.
March on parliament hill yesterday
This is parts of what was said while they were there…sorry no time to write the whole dialogue out but you get the idea of the greatness of yesterday. This happened in the hall way.
“What is being deemed by the federal government as consultation with afn or any other political organizations is not what we stand for, we are here for our people…we are here to pose objection of any bill that is continuing to violate our inherent right as a people of Turtle Island…no longer will government tell our people what to do, this has got to stop, and this is what we’re here for. Two, three people across the land is not consolation, I represent almost 6000 people in treaty six territory nobody has come and asked me and my people for our opinion of what is being proposed today. We are here to serve notice to government enough is enough we will not tolerate we will not put up with it any more.”
~shitty response by government official~ “my colleague John Duncan blah blah blah”
“We are people we are human beings too cotrary to what legislation initially [the indian act]…it is an inherent right to land…why is government policy and legislation always wanting us to surrender land?~gets interrupted by government person~ WE WOULDN’T BE HERE IF YOU WERE FOLLOWING THE CONTITUTION…your legislation don’t mean a dam thing to us.”
the government officiall walks away
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This.
Do ya’ll even know what happened yesterday in Canada?
Shit is getting real.
March on parliament hill yesterday
This is parts of what was said while they were there…sorry no time to write the whole dialogue out but you get the idea of the greatness of yesterday. This happened in the hall way.
“What is being deemed by the federal government as consultation with afn or any other political organizations is not what we stand for, we are here for our people…we are here to pose objection of any bill that is continuing to violate our inherent right as a people of Turtle Island…no longer will government tell our people what to do, this has got to stop, and this is what we’re here for. Two, three people across the land is not consolation, I represent almost 6000 people in treaty six territory nobody has come and asked me and my people for our opinion of what is being proposed today. We are here to serve notice to government enough is enough we will not tolerate we will not put up with it any more.”
~shitty response by government official~ “my colleague John Duncan blah blah blah”
“We are people we are human beings too cotrary to what legislation initially [the indian act]…it is an inherent right to land…why is government policy and legislation always wanting us to surrender land?~gets interrupted by government person~ WE WOULDN’T BE HERE IF YOU WERE FOLLOWING THE CONTITUTION…your legislation don’t mean a dam thing to us.”
the government officiall walks away
the police stop them from entering a meeting they were invited to
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If folks want a Native organization to donate to this season, please donate to the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA).
Reasons Why to Donate:
- Article: Real Criminals by Trace D. Meyer
- Tumblr: ICWA (Indian Child Welfare Act)
- NPR Investigation: Indian Children Being Taken From Tribes
- Article: The State and the American Indian: Who Gets the Child?
- Article: National Indian Child Welfare Association Responds to Dr. Phil’s Coverage of ICWA Case
- Split Feather Study by Carol Locust (Cherokee)
- Article: Adoption as Cultural Annihilation
- Article: Cheyenne River ICWA Director Discusses Challenges of Protecting Tribe’s Youngsters
- Dr. Phil and the Real Purpose of the Indian Child Welfare Act
- Video: Lakota Child Rescue Project
National Indian Child Welfare Association’s Website
please donate so they can continue their work!
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