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November 21, 2024

U.S. House Passes Legislation That Threatens Nonprofits and Freedom of Speech

On November 21, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 9495, the “Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act.”

October 1, 2024

The Last Whisper of Resistance

The Colombian Amazon is home to a large and diverse Indigenous culture. There, numerous ethnic groups have coexisted peacefully, and together they have resisted the attacks of colonization.

Alaska shoreline and islands shrouded in fog

October 1, 2024

The Untold Story of Aleutian Survival, Language, and Colonial Devastation

I am going to tell you a story. It is a story of pain, bloodshed, resilience, and survival. It is a story passed down in my family through oral tradition that runs through my veins. It is my history.

A great uncle and his nephew walking up a hill of their great great uncle's home. When Indigenous families decide to leave their territories, they leave history and generational family connections. This picture was taken in San Juan Ixcoy, Guatemala. Photo credit: Lucero Gonzalez Alvarado, December 29, 2022

October 1, 2024

Tragedy at the Border: A Call for Language Access

The tragic deaths of two migrant Maya children in U.S. custody revealed the consequences of failing to provide services in the migrants’ Native Indigenous languages.

a plant in soil is held within the palm of two hands.

October 1, 2024

An Indigenous Social Worker’s Call for Systemic Change

Indigenous wisdom empowers me as an Indigenous social worker to advocate for decolonization within my field.

Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. Photo credit: Shana Baumgartner, May 2019.

October 1, 2024

Grandmother

A poem by Shana Baumgartner.

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October 1, 2024

Erasure

This poem takes an an excerpt the speech “The Advantages of Mingling Indians with Whites,” and blacks out content in order to highlight specific words.

Armando Umirez (traditional name: Jan+fo) is one of the last Muinane who speaks his Native language fluently, having learned it from his father. Although his mother is from the Bora ethnic group and he currently resides in Uitoto territory, Armando always tries to speak his language with the few relatives who still speak it. Armando extracts bark to weave a matafrío, a task shared between men and women, to extract the juice from the cassava and obtain starch. Photo by: Ryan Cortés, August 19, 2024

October 1, 2024

The Muinane, in the Heart of the Jungle

A look at the past is a memory of a prosperous and numerous ethnic group, today resigned to its possible disappearance. Armando’s family is one of the last family’s of the Muinane ethnic group.

October 1, 2024

AI Tool to Revitalize Endangered Indigenous Languages

A team of students developed an AI-powered tool aimed at preserving endangered Indigenous languages.

The Amazonas of Yaxunah pose for a team photo before their game against the Águilas de San Antonio played at a local park in Halachó, a small municipality in México’s Yucatán Peninsula. They are wearing their traditional Huipil embroided dresses. Most are embroided in blue, and two in different shades of pink.

June 25, 2024

Strong Women, Warrior Women, They are the Amazonas of Yaxunah

The Amazonas of Yaxunah challenge gender norms that restricted women’s participation in sports. The team plays in their traditional Huipil dresses.

An illustration of an Embera Chami girl. The girl if surrounded by red, yellow, and green flowers. Her face is painted with traditional symbology. The illustration reads "Earth and Freedom", in Spanish.

June 25, 2024

Colors of the Caribbean: Love, freedom, and diversity

The diversity and mestizaje embrace each other in a visual dialogue that celebrates our identity and ancestral inheritance.

The photo shows an illustration of Nex Benedict, surrounded with flowers native to Chahta Territory. The stars are from a so-called "Oklahoma" skyline. The overall color palette reflects the non-binary flag colors of black, white, purple, and yellow. The cedar around their shoulders is there to send them off in a good way.

June 25, 2024

Honoring Nex Benedict

Nex Benedict was a 16-year-old non-binary Chahta student whose life was taken due to anti-queerness at their school in February 2024.

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