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The World’s Indigenous Suicide Crises, By The Numbers
A state of emergency was declared after 11 members of a single, remote community of Aboriginal Canadians tried to take their lives earlier this month. But as many indigenous and political leadersnoted, the issue isn’t isolated to Attawapiskat Canada — it isn’t even limited to Canada.
Women Are The Ones Fighting The Tough Environmental Battles Around The World
Three women, three stories.In Papua New Guinea, the Carteret islands are drowning in the rising sea. The people who live there traditionally have relied on taro for food, but the plant has become increasingly difficult to grow as salt water floods the fields. “Our shorelines are eroding so fast, and there are frequent storm surges,” says Ursula Rakova via Global Greengrants Fund, an international environment fund that supports grassroots environmental actions. “The rising sea levels have gotten so bad that one of the islands is disappearing really fast…We can’t hold back the sea. It will do its part. It’s already doing its part. It’s displacing us.”
Prize-Winning Environmentalist Murdered In Her Home In Honduras
One hundred and twenty-five years after hundreds of men, women, and children were executed at Wounded Knee, a former journalist and member of the Lakota tribe is getting ready to buy the adjacent land, with the intention of turning it into a Native American holocaust museum.
Holocaust Museum May Be Built At Site Where US Army Murdered 300 Native Americans
One hundred and twenty-five years after hundreds of men, women, and children were executed at Wounded Knee, a former journalist and member of the Lakota tribe is getting ready to buy the adjacent land, with the intention of turning it into a Native American holocaust museum.
Holocaust Museum May Be Built At Site Where US Army Murdered 300 Native Americans
Native Rights Are On The Chopping Block At The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will hear a case on Monday that could significantly damage the little power that the Native American community has to address crimes committed by someone who is not a tribal member. The case, spurred by the alleged sexual assault of a minor in Mississippi, focuses solely on how courts may prosecute cases involving indigenous people.
The original case is pretty straightforward: A 13-year-old boy, involved in a youth career skills program, said he was sexually assaulted by Dale Townsend, his manager at Dollar General, a store on land belonging to the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. The boy is a member of the tribe. The manager is not. The boy’s family sued Dollar General and Townsend in tribal court.
The Native American Community Faces Dangerously High Rates Of Food Insecurity
It’s been nearly 400 years since the Wampanoag people encountered the starving, cold pilgrims in Plymouth Bay. With an already thriving agricultural model in fertile Massachusetts, the Indigenous tribe taught the uneducated British settlers how to cultivate their own food, eventually culminating in a three-day-long shared meal celebrating the harvest — and securing the future of colonial expansion in the United States.
Greenpeace May Have Permanently Damaged An Ancient, Sacred Site. Now What?
Greenpeace International set off a firestorm in Peru last week, and not the kind it had hoped for. After a few of its members damaged, perhaps irreparably, one of the most important cultural heritage sites in the country, a debate is beginning over how to interpret the environmental groups offensive actions.
Greenpeace’s intention was good, some argue. It’s not like the whole organization was in on it. Think of all the other important acts Greenpeace has done in the past, they say. The climate movement needs Greenpeace.
But others maintain Greenpeace International committed a grave offense. Its illegal actions illustrated the group’s willingness to disrespect cultural patrimony for the sake of making a headline. And in a way, its attempt to promote renewable energy may have actually set back that very cause, as political opponents jump on the story as indicative of a radical and crass organization with no real respect for the environment.
This is the dispute that has preoccupied climate and environmental advocates since it was discovered last week that Greenpeace had trespassed on to the world-renowned Nazca Lines to lay a bright yellow banner urging a switch to renewable energy. The combination of banner-plus-Peruvian World Heritage site was meant to draw attention to the U.N. climate talks being held in nearby Lima. But the stunt backfired, and Peruvian officials say the activists’ footprints permanently damaged the area surrounding the ancient hummingbird geoglyph.
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