In an attempt to both raise awareness and possibly assist with the investigation of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in this country, I have drawn on the power of Google Maps. It is simply scandalous that, as of July 2009, the past three decades have seen over 520 indigenous women disappear or die violently in […]
A closer look at the prospect for native insurgency in 2010.
If you’re going to stay current, sometimes you have to re-invent your brand, and we Indians are no exception. Luckily, we have people lining up to do it for us. We begin with the apparently oh-so-nascent Indigenous Resistance Army — IRA, for short — which, according to a recent speech by the chair of Defence […]
In one of the most controversial announcements to ever come out of the Nobel Foundation, U.S. president Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009. Peace advocates questioned the selection, given the American military presence in many conflicts around the globe. Obama accepted it humbly, and vowed to donate the $1.4 million dollar […]
The BBC reports on how the indigenous Mapuche in Chile have used the web to share their frustration over inadequate relief efforts for their communities in the wake of the quake in Chile. One way we can perhaps help is to translate Mapuchean websites so their message gets out more widely: Many indigenous voices on […]
