MC Millaray, 16, an emerging music star in Chile, uses her fierce lyrics to convey five centuries of struggles by the country’s largest Indigenous group against European colonizers.
Tag: Indigenous People
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Oil Drilled in the Amazon Rainforest Ends Up in California
“One in every nine tanks of gas, diesel or jet fuel pumped in California comes from the Amazon,” one researcher said.
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Canada Settles $2 Billion Suit Over ‘Cultural Genocide’ at Residential Schools
The class action, brought by 325 First Nations, said that residential schools, sanctioned by the government, eroded Indigenous cultures and languages.
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Brazil’s Defender of the Indigenous Brings Their Fight to the Shed
Claudia Andujar has photographed the Yanomami in the Amazon during a lifetime of activism. At 91, she is still helping protect their rainforest homeland.
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Ecuador Tried to Curb Drilling and Protect the Amazon. The Opposite Happened.
A novel idea to leave the country’s vast oil reserves in the ground fizzled for lack of international support. Now, struggling under painful debt, the government wants to expand drilling in the rainforest.