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Bolivia: Facing Fatal Consequences & Future Fortune

“What are we going to do? We are water people.” –Felix Quispe, 62 year old tribal chief of Uru Chipaya. Uru Chipaya is a Bolivian tribe in the Andes Mountains that has survived the brutal Spanish Conquest and even outlasted the epic Incan Empire. The Uru Chipaya peoples are now standing face-to-face with an even greater enemy.  [...]
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Avatar champions Native American Spirit

The comparisons between North America’s First People and the Na’vi is direct in James Cameron’s Avatar, a film that surpasses the hype and draws you in literally with its 3D technology so real you feel like you can reach out and touch it. I walked out of the theater wanting to be a Na’vi who [...]
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Remembering Alcatraz

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the occupation of Alcatraz by the Indians of All Tribes, perhaps one of the most significant acts of activism conducted by Native Americans to date. Led by Mohawk activist Richard Oakes,  Indians from diverse tribes across the country occupied Alcatraz for 19 months from Nov. 20, 1969 to [...]
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The curious math of un-people

Europeans arriving on the shores of the New World faced a serious dilemma:  How to claim this valuable land for themselves when there already millions of people living here? Columbus was quick to find an answer: “They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by [...]
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