Indigenous Peoples
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Eleventh annual Navajo Education Conference
Tags Share Let me say this is a very distressing time—there are some very disturbing matters which I feel must be explored and remedied here in the Indian community. The Indian is our First Citizen. The nurturing and emboldening of the young Indian’s mind should be a priority to all of us here in America……
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Unworthy Republic author gives RFK Human Rights staff, supporters a look into research on award-winning book
Tags Share Surprisingly, it was a box of letters he inherited from his Hungarian grandfather that inspired Claudio Saunt to write about Native American dispossession. Saunt, who won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award for Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory, said reading the letters, which…
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There is no climate solution without Indigenous Peoples and the protection of their rights
Tags Share Last week concluded the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, with over 150 heads of state, including President Biden, meeting to discuss efforts to address climate change. The annual conference comes as global warming has caused more frequent and extreme climate disasters, giving countries large and small a role and…
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Kumarakapay Massacre v. Venezuela: Venezuelan Massacres Investigated
When Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro attempted to halt humanitarian aid, indigenous villagers in need were murdered.
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Reynoso Pacheco et al. v. Guatemala: When Mining Turns Into Murder
Topacio Reynoso devoted her too-short life to battling mining interests ravaging Indigenous lands in Guatemala.
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Quelvin Jimenez Villalta: Anti-Mining Activist Receives Safeguards in Guatemala
As mining interests encroach on Guatemalan Indigenous lands, lawyer Quelvin Otoniel Jiménez Villalta’s life is at risk.
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Rubio Villegas et al. v. Mexico: Mexican Military Checkpoint Turns Deadly
The militarization of Mexico resulted in Bonfilio Rubio Villegas’s needless death.
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