Ecuador's Indigenous defenders face growing threats, activists say at UN summit
Indigenous environmental defenders in Ecuador are suffering an increasing number of threats and sometimes deadly attacks amid ...
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Biden’s Tardy Apology to American Indigenous Peoples
On Friday, October 24, 2024, President Joe Biden formally apologized to the indigenous peoples of North America for the abuses committed against thousands ...
I’m Riding on Horseback to the Polls to Reclaim Indigenous Cowgirl Culture
Allie Redhorse Young is on a mission to cement her place in the story of the American West.
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The Long Path Toward Establishing Indigenous People’s Day, a Day to Honor and Recognize the First Peoples of America
Indigenous Peoples’ Day recognizes that Native people are the first inhabitants of the Americas, including the lands that later became the United States of America. And it urges Americans to ...
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Challenging the Myth: The Boers’ claim to South Africa and its colonial parallels
The claim made by South African Boers—descendants of Dutch settlers—that they have a legitimate right to the land because they arrived before the Bantu-speaking people reflects a broader colonial ...
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Racial and Ethnic Justice: Essential to Upholding Human Rights in the Americas
This piece is part of the series A Human Rights Agenda for the Next U.S. Administration, which outlines WOLA’s priorities for ...
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What was achieved, and not, for Indigenous and local leaders at COP16
Despite gridlocked talks over finance and little advancement on key elements on the agenda, this year’s U.N. biodiversity ...
What is Indigenous Peoples' Day? What to know about push to eliminate Columbus Day
Monday is Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day. The explorer had a violent history among Native Americans, and many say ...
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A Graphic Novel Tears Apart the Lies of the Indigenous History of America
Ortiz's Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States : A Graphic Interpretation, we see the true history revealed ...
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What is Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day? See what's open and closed in Kentucky
Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day, which are recognized on ... the native people he encountered after landing in the Americas in 1492. Last year, the Biden administration issued a ...