indigenous politics

I REMEMBER GOING TO VISIT AN ABAN- doned Kayap6 village site near Conceiqgo do Ara- guaia, in July of last

When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Quiché human rights activist Rigoberta Menchú Tum this October 16, the awful

IN FEBRUARY, WHEN THE KAYAPO INDI- ans of ParAi state hosted a meeting of native people and environmentalists from around

NATIONALISTS MAY FOCUS ON CULTURE rather than economic or political issues for tactical reasons. But it is not tactics that

On March 4, 2003, the Ecuadoran newspaper Hoy reported that Ecuador’s Ministry of Environment had agreed to allow two transnational

ON MAY 27, 1990, ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY Indians occupied Santo Domingo Cathedral in the heart of the old city

Outside the headquarters of Occidental Petroleum Corporation in Los Angeles, about 50 demonstrators gathered on October 20, 1997, carrying placards

RURAL UPHEAVAL AND THE SURVIVAL OF THE MAYA While Guatemala's political and economic changes have had profound effects on indigenous

She is a tiny, ancient-looking woman in bare feet and a dingy housewife's apron. Though her face is wizened like

THE DRAMA BEGAN IN JUNE 1990 IN WIN- nipeg, the capital city of the province of Manitoba. A fluke of

The great anti-colonial indigenous insurrection of 1781 has haunted republican Bolivia since its founding in 1825. From their military encampment

THE GROWING FUROR OVER THE FUTURE OF hydroelectric development in the James Bay area in northern Quebec seems to be