On AlterNet: indigenous

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "indigenous"

Nature Is Not A Commodity: The Path to Rio+20

David Korten, April 26, 2012.

David Korten: Indigenous wisdom reveals a path to the future that does not include a buy-out of the earth’s natural systems.

Why the Battle Over Canada's Tar Sands Is an American Issue

Asher Miller, Post Carbon Institute. February 3, 2012.

For starters, the energy and environmental impacts of tar sands production are not limited to within the borders of Canada. But the trouble doesn't end there.

Indigenous Canadians Fight for the Tar Sands

YES! MagazineNovember 4, 2011.

Indigenous activist Clayton Thomas-Müller on the moral imperative to preserve Alberta's beauty for future generations.

U.S. Rejects Indigenous Rights in Favor of Failed War on Drugs; Strong-arms Other Countries to Follow Suit

Daniel Robelo, AlterNet. January 24, 2011.

Why is the United States formally objecting to Bolivia's request to the UN to allow its ancestral practice of coca leaf chewing?

In South America, the Left and Indigenous Movements Are Searching for a Way to Co-Exist

Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet. September 1, 2010.

At the heart of these conflicts is a question the Latin American left is grappling with: what should this "other world that is possible" look like?

Mixed-Race Numbers Expected to Increase on 2010 Census

Denise Poon, New America Media. April 2, 2010.

Ten years ago, for the first time, respondents had options to self-identify as more than one race, nearly 7 million people (roughly 2.4 percent of respondents) did so.

Census: Masking Identities or Counting the Indigenous Among Us?

Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez, New America Media. March 4, 2010.

In 1848, the former citizens of Mexico were designated “white” because of U.S. slavery and legal segregation. This artifact of history complicates the U.S. Census to this day.

How an Indigenous Community Defeated a Logging Giant

Jessica Bell, AlterNet. June 23, 2008.

Grassy Narrows ran the longest-running blockade in North American history to stop logging on its land, but that wasn't all it took.

Sexual violence against indigenous women

Guest Blogger, April 26, 2007.

Lucinda Marshall: An excellent new report from Amnesty on the impact of sexual assault on Native American women.

Exploring Christopher Columbus Day

Elias Lawless, WireTap. October 9, 2006.

Opinion: How might a federal holiday relate to U.S. support for Guatemala`s bid at the U.N. Security Council?

No Thanks to Thanksgiving

Robert Jensen, AlterNet. November 23, 2005.

Instead, we should atone for the genocide that was incited -- and condoned -- by the very men we idolize as our 'heroic' founding fathers.