Following up on my post about the two indigenous competitors at the 2010 Winter Olympics, I wanted to highlight the fact that Canada’s first medal of the Paralympic Games was earned by Saskatoon’s Colette Bourgonje, who, says Indian Country Today, is the squad’s “only aboriginal athlete.” On Sunday, Mar. 14, Bourgonje grabbed silver in the […]
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 […]
Very cool piece in the New York Times on how one small, indigenous-run, hospital in Tuba City, Arizona, has “outperform[ed] richer, more prestigious institutions when it comes to keeping Caesarean rates down, which saves money and is better for many mothers and infants.” The article partly attributes the success of the Tuba City Regional Health […]
