Indigenous Peoples' rights Archives

Jun 10 2024

Fragments of Amazonia

By Akshara Sangiorgio

A visual artist vividly portrays the Waorani people’s struggle to defend their Amazonian territory from oil exploitation.

Apr 22 2024

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My Grandfather’s Fight to Save Brunca Culture Runs in My Blood

By Chang Liu

A young Brunca historian follows her grandfather's lifelong example of resisting colonialism and protecting the biocultural diversity of her people. WORDS María Lázaro │ IMAGES María Lázaro and Jessica Lázaro…

Nov 14 2023

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Aroli, the Sheperds’ Alarm Call

By Akshara Sangiorgio

Indian nomadic pastoralists sound the alarm against historical injustices and draconian colonial laws.

Aug 02 2023

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Piikanissini: A Piikani Collective Biocultural Heritage Approach

By Akshara Sangiorgio

Biocultural community protocols can help Indigenous Peoples communicate ancestral laws and responsibilities to external actors.

Jul 19 2023

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Legal Rights and Spiritual Responsibilities: Indigenous Land Struggles in Costa Rica

By Akshara Sangiorgio

Indigenous Peoples fight for their land rights to uphold their inherent responsibilities to the earth.

Jun 28 2023

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The Wealth of Our Lands: Celebrating Boititap Korenyo with the Ogiek of Mount Elgon, Kenya

By Akshara Sangiorgio

A community advocates for land rights and protects its ancestral forest with mapping technology.

Apr 12 2023

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From Rights to Responsibilities: Regenerating Kinship Relations

By Akshara Sangiorgio

For Indigenous Peoples, their relationships to the lands, waters, and natural world shape their responsibilities, governance, and self-determining authority.

Jun 15 2020

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As Violent as Words: An Innu Woman’s Thoughts about Decolonizing Language

By Robert Wiltzen

Marie-Émilie Lacroix interviewed by Marco Romagnoli “Dialogue is a way of knowing myself and of disentangling my own point of view from other viewpoints and from me, because it is…

Oct 04 2019

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There Are No Corners in the Tundra

By Robert Wiltzen

Khadry Okotetto (Nenets, Russian Federation), interviewed by Galya Morrell “I was jailed in a Russian boarding school where they tried to make a Russian second-class citizen out of me — because I was…

Aug 04 2018

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Designing Biocultural Protocols with the Embera People of Colombia

By Akshara Sangiorgio

by Gabriel Nemogá, Justico Domicó, and Alejandro Molina The working group on territory and infrastructure meets at a workshop on the biocultural community protocol, Polines Community Library. Photo: Dinson Bailarín,…

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Fragments of Amazonia

My Grandfather’s Fight to Save Brunca Culture Runs in My Blood

Aroli, the Sheperds’ Alarm Call

Piikanissini: A Piikani Collective Biocultural Heritage Approach

Legal Rights and Spiritual Responsibilities: Indigenous Land Struggles in Costa Rica

The Wealth of Our Lands: Celebrating Boititap Korenyo with the Ogiek of Mount Elgon, Kenya

From Rights to Responsibilities: Regenerating Kinship Relations

As Violent as Words: An Innu Woman’s Thoughts about Decolonizing Language

There Are No Corners in the Tundra

Designing Biocultural Protocols with the Embera People of Colombia

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