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• New Moon: Old Story?

  
  Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture — Authority: 636
  by Special Correspondent Wendi Muse Most people talk about the fans. They are typically teenage girls screaming, crying, fainting at the sight of the pallid Robert Pattinson (who plays the Byronic hero Edward Cullen, a vampire who strives to avoid his bloodthirsty desires for the sake of preserving humanity). Now ...
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• It’s Tricky Thursday; What Are You Really Celebrating There Folks ?

  
  BadGalsRadio - RootsRock since 99 — Authority: 124
  WE Don’t Do Thanksgiving – because until the situation is equalized across the board, in our humble opinion; There Ain’t Nothin to Celebrate. Today We Honor and Join with our Native Peoples in their statement for the Truth and Rights about the North American Peoples’ Holocaust. This is a recent program ...
  1 day ago

• What if you would like to give thanks for capitalism? (Reconsidering Thanksgiving part 1)

  
  Professor, What If...? — Authority: 110
  In the run up to turkey day, I am reposting my three-part piece on Thanksgiving. Here is part one: If you are looking for a reason to give thanks this Thanksgiving, how about this: give thanks for capitalism! I came across this nifty idea when searching around the internet for “alternative ways to spend ...
  2 days ago

• Lady’s Slipper (American Valerian)

  
  Find Me A Cure — Authority: 136
  Botanical  Name : Cypripedium pubescens (WILD.), Cyprepedium parviflorum Family : N.O. Orchidaceae Synonyms :  Lady’s Slipper . Cypripedium hirsutum. American Valerian. Noah’s Ark. Yellow Lady’s Slipper. Nerve-root. Part Used: Root. Common Names: American Valerian,(American Valerian is one of the ...
  3 days ago

• Countdown to Copenhagen: Adapt or Perish

  
  Fourth World Eye — Authority: 126
  Changes in plant and animal life, topography, glaciers, oxygen levels in the ocean, extreme changes in the weather and changes in human health can either be a product of human activity affects (CO2 and other greenhouse gases for example or they can be just a part of the grand cycle of earth changes.  Either way, ...
  5 days ago

• On November 20

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 507
  On this day in ... ... 1969 (40 years ago today) , the Supreme Court of Canada issued its 6-3 decision in The Queen v. Drybones , a landmark in the law relating to the rights of native peoples and in the constitutional jurisprudence of Canada. The judgment arose out of a challenge to the 1967 arrest in ...
  6 days ago

• Lachnanthes

  
  Find Me A Cure — Authority: 136
  Botanical  Name: Lachnanthes tinctoria (ELL.) Family: N.O. Haemodoraceae Synonyms: Gyrotheca capitata. Gyrotheca tinctoria. Wool Flower. Red Root. Paint Root. Spirit Weed. Parts Used: Root, herb. Habitat : Eastern N. America – New Jersey and Rhode Island to Florida.Sandy and peaty shores and swamps.The ...
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• A Disturbing Legal Position Against Mapuches in Chile

  
  Alterdestiny — Authority: 486
  As it nears its end, Michele Bachelets government in Chile has been remarkably successful. However, it all hasnt been roses, and this is one of the uglier aspects of her four-year administration : Small groups of Mapuche Indians have so rattled Chile by seizing forests, burning buses and attacking police to demand ...
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• Pedro’s Story. Peruvian Roots And Gold

  
  Man of Roma — Authority: 451
  Andean Machu Picchu, Peru. Click for credits and larger picture As I said in the previous post I am impressed by Pedro’s personality, by his intelligence and extreme hardiness towards fatigue or any kind of climate. He has a lively and authoritative look. He’s pensive sometimes. Not the gloomy pensive, ...
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• Asia Cast for Thursday 19th November

  
  Asia Cast — Authority: 126
  Poster promoting the Quit the CCP movement: many Chinese are waiting for the Communist Party to collapse as the Berlin Wall did 20 years ago. In this Bulletin… - Outrage at misuse of human blood products; - Opposition says Chinese students threaten Taiwanese jobs; and - Church of Scientology under fire in ...
  1 week ago

• Images from Bolivias Constitutional Referendum

  
  Alterdestiny — Authority: 486
  Earlier this year, Bolivia passed a new constitution, and as Erik commented at the time, "The indigenous majority again flexed their political muscle, taking control of the nation from the eastern whites who had oppressed them for the last 450 years." This week, I came upon some excellent photographs from the vote ...
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• Satur: DENR should revoke ECC, MPSA to Intex resources

  
  PINOYWORLD Philippines | Pinoy Blogger's Official Blog — Authority: 416
  Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo today threw his support for the hunger strikers protesting a foreign mining project in Oriental Mindoro that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources favors over long-term food security. “We fully support the people and the local government units of ...
  1 week ago

• Indigenous Peoples: Australias treatment of Aboriginals, targeted by Amnesty International after a quick visit

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 445
  ABC - The Secretary-General of Amnesty International has criticised the Federal Government for its failure to lift Aboriginal people out of dire poverty.Irene Kahn says she is appalled by conditions in the remote Aboriginal communities she recently visited in the Northern Territory.She says the human rights of ...
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• Mapping Indigenous Technology and Science

  
  The Freire Project - The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy — Authority: 128
  The general sense of the word technology involves the activity of a culture, and how knowledge is created within that culture.  Specifically, the study of how different cultures categorize their own knowledge, and the ways in which that knowledge is applied, these are the specifics of technology. I am interested in ...
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• Indigenous Peoples: Native American tribe creates prized baskets

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 445
  Native Americans in the United States have been weaving baskets for centuries. Archeologists have discovered baskets that are thousands of years old. They were used to hold food and other supplies, and for sacred rituals. But many baskets made today are for decoration. The Tohono Oodham in (the southwest state of) ...
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• Turkey steps cautiously toward Kurds

  
  Fourth World Eye — Authority: 126
  Fifteen percent of the people located inside Turkish-claimed territory are Kurds.  The Kurdish people actually live in a territory interrupted by the borders of five different countries: Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Armenia. Maimed, maligned, and marginalized for generations the Kurdish peoples have steadfastly ...
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• So You Wanna Be Indigenous, Taino Edition

  
  VivirLatino — Authority: 591
  When I was in 7th grade I had to do a project on an Indigenous community for school. I’m sure the project was assigned to me sometime between Columbus Day and Thanksgiving the way these projects tend to be. I chose the Tainos, the indigenous people of the Caribbean and specifically what is now Puerto Rico. I chose ...
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• Apathy Towards Indigenous Language

  
  Sinlung — Authority: 158
  By Jyoti Sonia Dhan It is sometimes argued that when an indigenous language disappears (when there are no longer any speakers of the language) then the group itself no longer exists. Then the group might have merged into another group with other languages. Lnaguage is considered the cornerstone of culture and the ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Work

  
  the sad red earth — Authority: 125
  BloodLotus "Georigas mask" by Megan Pinch Issue 14 October 2009 ————————————————————————————————— Global Viewpoints Indigenous Peoples My poem “Myth” appears in the latest issue of BloodLotus , just hitting the ...
  2 weeks ago

• johnny cash, indians, and nixon

  
  Shmohawk's Weblog — Authority: 108
  I never heard this one, although I knew that Johnny Cash often stood up for what he believed. a great story on Salon about how Cash brought Indigenous issues to a White House much different than the one with today’s resident. The story was probably sparked by Obama’s invitation to Native Americans to spend a [...]
  2 weeks ago

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