By Dave Palermo
It was common, centuries ago, for the Hupa people of what is now Northern California to trade with the neighboring Yurok for the wood needed to fashion canoes. The Kumeyaay of San Diego County exchanged shells and fish with tribes further north for obsidian to make arrows, spear points and cutting tools.
Southern California [...]

Posted on July 19th, 2009 by hunwut
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Peru: Indian leader forced into exile as President calls protesters ‘savages’
The President of Peru’s Amazon Indian organisation AIDESEP has been forced into exile. Alberto Pizango sought refuge in the Nicaraguan embassy in Peru’s capital Lima after a warrant was issued for his arrest. Nicaragua has granted him asylum.

Posted on June 9th, 2009 by hunwut
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By Richard B. Williams
I learned a new word the other day. Agnotology is the study of the politics of ignorance. This unusual word is even more intriguing when one considers that politics can influence ignorance. I never realized that ignorance could be politicized and that there are academicians studying the effects.

Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by hunwut
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The article about the Holocaust raises emotions of those with a heart, those who really care. That kind of horror can not be undone or repaid, which is why I am writing this letter.
The American Indian suffered the same tragedy and horror through war, pestilence and starvation mostly. This horrible crime travels along silently with [...]

Posted on December 14th, 2008 by hunwut
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By Steven Newcomb
On Oct. 23, 2008, Dick Pound, a high profile Canadian Olympic official, was giving an interview to a French-language newspaper. In addressing whether China should have been awarded the Olympics given its human rights record, Pound said, in French, that Canada was a “land of savages” 400 years ago. He later apologized and [...]

Posted on December 12th, 2008 by hunwut
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By Victor Morales, Today correspondent
MEXICALI, Mexico - Tension between migrant Mexican Indians and police are escalating after confrontations on the border across from the U.S., said a group of Mixtecs residing on the northern frontier.
Mexicali municipal police allegedly questioned then threatened a 10-year old Mixtec boy selling candy with jail time and confiscation, resulting in [...]

Posted on December 1st, 2008 by hunwut
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By Steven Newcomb
Despite years of well-voiced opposition from traditional Western Shoshones, the Bush administration, by-way-of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), approved a massive open-pit, cyanide heap-leach gold mine at Mount Tenabo.
Mt. Tenabo, not far from the Dann Family Ranch where elder Carrie Dann lives, is an area of tremendous cultural and spiritual significance to [...]

Posted on November 28th, 2008 by hunwut
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On Oct. 13, 2008 (Columbus Day), in Barcelona Spain, the World Conservation Congress (WCC) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), voted to endorse and begin implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 13, 2007.
The motion passed by the [...]

Posted on November 7th, 2008 by hunwut
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By Robert Johnson

Our story begins nearly 20 years ago. During the early ’90s a new fad was born. The phrase “Politically Correct” entered the lexicon and brought us the suffix “-American.” Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians became “African-Americans, Spanish-Americans, and Asian-Americans.”
Everything was bubblegum, sunshine, and puppies until someone said, “what about the Indians?”

Posted on July 16th, 2008 by Larry Banegas
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By David Escobar
02/06/2006
WHEN THE controversial issue of day laborers loitering on the streets appears in the media, the ethnicity is always painted with the same brown brush: Latino. But who are these brown-skinned men with baseball caps?

What most Californians don’t realize is that many of these men and women who emigrate to the U.S. from [...]

Posted on July 16th, 2008 by hunwut
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