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Seven hundred feet above the banks of the Colorado River, hikers can find what looks like a collection of square windows cut into the sandstone. The carvings were made around the year 1100 by the Ancestral Puebloan people. The cutouts served as grain storage facilities that were designed to be sealed, protecting food stores from seasonal flooding, […]
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1 Gunmen in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, shot dead a Catholic priest who was an outspoken advocate for indigenous rights and who had condemned the violence plaguing his community. Father Marcelo Pérez was killed after celebrating Mass in the southern state of Chiapas on Sunday, the prosecutor’s office said. The Jesuit priest had […]
‘Women, we make up our own minds, it’s a thing’: Spender Wrapping up her press club appearance, Allegra Spender was asked about a recent article in the Financial Review stating she had asked them to remove a reference to Simon Holmes à Court from the powerbroking list. Was that true? Spender said “I did”, and […]
Britain’s King Charles was embraced by an Indigenous elder after a welcome smoking ceremony on Tuesday in the birthplace of Australia’s urban Aboriginal civil rights movement in Sydney,… Source link
CANBERRA, Australia – An Indigenous senator told King Charles III that Australia is not his land as the royal visited Australia’s parliament on Monday. Sen. Lidia Thorpe was escorted out of a parliamentary reception for the royal couple after shouting that British colonizers have taken Indigenous land and bones. “You committed genocide against our people,” […]
Two gunmen in southern Mexico shot dead a Catholic Priest, who was also an activist for Indigenous peoples and farm laborers, amid a surge in violence in the southern Chiapas region. Marcelo Perez was killed in the city of San Cristobal de las Casas, in the state of Chiapas, as he was returning to his […]
When Gomeroi songwoman Auntie Bronwyn Spearim-Hoy was growing up in Moree in the 1960s and early 70s, officials would go to brutal lengths to try to crush Indigenous culture. “We were living on mission camps,” she says. “Language was forbidden. If you spoke language, they took your children away. So our mother and father spoke […]
One of the most widely spoken Indigenous languages in this country is now available through Google’s translation service, the first time the tech giant has included a First Nations, Métis or Inuit language spoken in Canada on its platform. Inuktut, a broad term encompassing different dialects spoken by Inuit in Canada, Greenland and Alaska, has […]
How Waters’ indigenous pride fuels his incredible NBA journey originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area SAN FRANCISCO – Though Lindy Waters III is undiscovered to much of America, he’s a welcome discovery to the Warriors and an emerging hero to a marginalized nation of millions. When Golden State acquired Waters in a June trade […]