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Indigenous Struggles
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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Connexions LibraryConnexions Library: Native Peoples/First Nations Focus  Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on first peoples and aboriginal issues. Ecuador's Bitter Choice Becker, Marc Article 2014 Becker analyzes the politics behind the decision to extract petroleum from Ecuador's ecologically fragile Yasunà National Park. Indigenous Communities in Guatemala Fight Against the Privatization of Sacred Sites Abbott, Jeff Article 2016 In recent years, the popular tourist attraction of Semuc Champey in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz has become a point of social conflict for the indigenous Q'eqchi' Mayan communities surrou... Indigenous Peoples: A Report for the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues (ICIHI) ICIHI Book The provocative report is about the plight - and resilience - of some 200 million people spread out in all continents. They are the descendants of the original inhabitants of lands which boasted a ric... The Last Frontier: Fighting Over Land in the Amazon Branford, Sue; Glock, Oriel Book This richly detailed study of the Amazon region spells out the mismanagement, corruption, and resulting chaos and brutality of successive Brazilian government development schemes. The present situatio... New Evidence Shows Main Chevron Witness Lied In $9.5 Billion Ecuador Lawsuit Smallteacher, Richard Article 2015 A key witness has admitted under oath that he lied on behalf of Chevron, the California oil multinational, when the company sued to overturn a $9.5 billion verdict for pollution of the Ecuadorian Amaz... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015: Climate Change and Social Change Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a produ... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2016: Forests and trees Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2016 For countless centuries, forests, and the trees in them, have been seen as sources of life, livelihood, and spiritual meaning. For capitalism, however, forests are sites of extraction and profit-makin... They Came for the Children: Truth Commission Sheds Light on Canada's Genocide Against Indigenous Peoples Lathem, Alexis Article 2016 Imagine a village with all its children gone. For aboriginal peoples all across Canada, this was their lived reality, not the stuff of imagination. The story of what happened to the children -- who we... The Trickledown Revolution Roy, Arundhati Article 2010 The first step towards re-imagining a world gone terribly wrong would be to stop the annihilation of those who have a different imagination - an imagination that is outside of capitalism as well as co... Why does the language of journalism fail indigenous people?: A journalist with indigenous roots reflects on the making of We Are Still Here: A Story from Native Alaska. Abujbara, Amira Article 2018 A journalist with Indigenous roots reflects on the difficulty of doing justice to the community she is filming a documentary about. Historical misrepresentation due to lack of cross-cultural understan... A Window on Indigenous Life: Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex and History in the Small Space of Andean Life (Book Review) Ari-Chachaki, Waskar T. Article 2015 Book Review of Andrew Canessa's Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex and History in the Small Space of Andean Life. |
