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Above Photo: In this Oct. 12, 2020 file photo, a pedestrian takes a photo of graffiti on a temporary metal barrier set up to protect the perimeter of the Christopher Columbus’s statue which was removed by authorities on Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico Cito. Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Sunday, Sept. 5, […]
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Christopher Columbus Statue In Mexico City To Be Replaced With 1 Honoring Indigenous Women
September 7th, 2021 
Awake Goy MEXICO CITY (AP) — Christopher Columbus is getting kicked off Mexico City’s most iconic boulevard. Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announced that the Columbus statue on the Paseo de la Reforma, often a focal point for Indigenous rights protests, would be replaced by a statue honoring Indigenous women. “To them we owe … the history of our […]
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No Comments »Indigenous Peoples Set Up Protest Camp In Brasilia
August 25th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: Indigenous Peoples From The Minas Gerais And Espirito Santo In Brasilia, Brazil, Aug. 22, 2021. @ApibOficial / Twitter. Private Companies Seek To Set A Deadline For The Demarcation Of Indigenous Territories In Order To Speed Up The Extraction Of Natural Resources. From August 22 to 28, the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil […]
Ancient Indigenous Funerary Urns Unearthed in Ecuador [Images]
August 20th, 2021 Awake Goy This week an unassuming Ecuadorian hacienda became a site of archaeological interest. Workers accidentally discovered a mound containing multiple Pre-Hispanic ceramic funerary urns while using heavy machinery to remove soil on private property in the province of Los Ríos. The funerary mound discovered at the hacienda in Antonio Sotomayor, canton Vinces, Los Ríos, Ecuador. ( […]
New Research Shows Philippine Indigenous Group Has Most Denisovan DNA
August 14th, 2021 Awake Goy A small indigenous group surviving on the Bataan Peninsula on the Philippine island of Luzon has more Denisovan DNA than any other ethnic population in the world. That is the conclusion of an international team of evolutionary geneticists, led by Maximilian Larena and Mattias Jakobsson from Uppsala University in Sweden, who recently finished examining more […]
‘Stand with us’: Indigenous Line 3 opponents seek allies to fight tar sands pipeline
August 8th, 2021 Awake Goy Opponents of Canadian company Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline march to the White House in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 2021 to call on President Joe Biden to cancel the toxic project’s permit. (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images) As state and local law enforcement in Minnesota intensify their violent repression of water […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: allies, fight, indigenous, opponents, pipeline, sands, stand No Comments »Indigenous Rights Are A Counterforce To The Climate Crisis
August 2nd, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: The Breach Colonialism Caused Climate Change. Indigenous Rights Are A Solution Hours after narrowly escaping the fire that scorched his town, Lytton, B.C. resident Gordon Murray offered a warning to the rest of us. “We are a small, rural, Indigenous, low-income community, and we’re the spearpoint of climate change – but it’s coming […]
New Indigenous Land Dispute Brewing In Norfolk
July 24th, 2021 Awake Goy Forty acres of Norfolk County farmland is poised to become the next front in the ongoing battle over Indigenous land rights. In 2015, the Haudenosaunee Development Institute bought a property on Concession 2 Townsend for $310,000 and has not paid property taxes since. The HDI, which is the development arm of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council, argues […]
Lawsuit Filed By Indigenous Water Protectors Against Sheriff
July 17th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: Giniw Collective. Indigenous environmental protectors opposing the expansion of Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline, Tara Houska and Winona LaDuke, represented by the Center for Protest Law and Litigation, a project of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, and EarthRights International, today filed for a restraining order against Hubbard County, Sheriff Cory Aukes and the […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: against, filed, indigenous, lawsuit, protectors, sheriff, water No Comments »Canadian Minister Confronted For Pushing Revisionist History Of Anti-Indigenous Schools
July 16th, 2021 Awake Goy Mere minutes after being sworn in on Thursday, the new minister of Indigenous reconciliation in Manitoba, Canada, found himself in hot soup for defending the country’s so-called “residential schools,” where thousands of Indigenous children were held after being forcibly taken from their families. Alan Lagimodiere, the minister, was answering a question about the schools at […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: canadian, confronted, history, indigenous, Minister, pushing, revisionist No Comments »A Virtual Reunion 10 Years Later: Indigenous and Women of Color Feminists reflect on historic delegation to Palestine
July 16th, 2021 Awake Goy Ten years ago, the Indigenous and Women of Color Feminist Delegation issued its historic statement, Justice for Palestine: A Call to Action from Indigenous & Women of Color Feminists. First published in Electronic Intifada and Jadaliyya and shared by the BDS movement and multiple other sites, the statement was translated to Spanish by delegation member […]
Media is FINALLY covering immense crimes against indigenous peoples in Canada that were known about DECADES ago. So why now?
July 7th, 2021 Awake Goy July4, 2021, RT.com -by Eva K Bartlett The reprehensible issue of what many deem “mass murder” of indigenous children in Canada’s Catholic school system has been in global headlines in recent weeks. But this should have been in the headlines decades ago. The nearly 1,000 bodies of indigenous children in mass graves were recently found by ground-penetrating radar, […]
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July 4th, 2021 Awake Goy Eviction and Banishment Order Issued to the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada by indigenous elders of the Squamish, Gitxsan, Nuu-Chah-Nulth, Secwepemc, Tsilhqot’in, Cree, Anishinaabeg, Mohawk-Kanien’keha:ka and Mi’kmaq nations July 1, 2021https://youtu.be/wz45SUZx21U We hereby invoke the Great Spirit and the Land Law of our nations by evicting and banishing forever your churches and their officials […]
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June 25th, 2021 Awake Goy REGINA, Saskatchewan (AP) — Leaders of Indigenous groups in Canada said Thursday investigators have found 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school for Indigenous children — a discovery that follows last month’s report of 215 at another school. “This was a crime against humanity, an assault on First Nations,” said Chief […]
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June 24th, 2021 Awake Goy A First Nation in southern Saskatchewan said Wednesday that it has discovered hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of another former residential school for Indigenous children. A statement from the Cowessess First Nation and the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous First Nations, which represents Saskatchewan’s First Nations, said that “the number of unmarked graves will […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: another, found, graves, hundreds, indigenous, school, unmarked No Comments »Mexico: Indigenous Mobilization Defends Their Territory
June 10th, 2021 Awake Goy On June 8, PBI-Mexico posted: “On Saturday, May 29, PBI accompanied a mobilisation of the indigenous communities of Mogotavo, Bacajípare and Huetosachi, of the Sierra Tarahumara for the defense of life and ancestral territory.” PBI-Mexico further highlights: “These Indigenous communities are at risk for dispossession of their lands.” Among the groups accompanied by PBI-Mexico that […]
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June 9th, 2021 Awake Goy Photo credit: Three Pemon youths By La Mesa – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11506616 I first met Indigenous wisdom keepers as a child. After days of off-road driving to the Gran Sabana in Venezuela, we had arrived at the ancestral lands of the Pemón people, where they still lived. “Go fill up your thermoses with […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: collaborating, indigenous, keepers, learned, things, wisdom No Comments »Remains of more than 200 children found at site of Canadian indigenous school in ‘heartbreaking’ tragedy
May 30th, 2021 Awake Goy The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried on a site that was once Canada’s largest indigenous residential school, in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as a reminder of a “shameful chapter” in the country’s history. More than 150,000 First Nations children were required to attend […]
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May 30th, 2021 Awake Goy KAMLOOPS, British Colombia (AP) — The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school — one of the institutions that held children taken from families across the nation. Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlups te Secwépemc […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: bodies, Canada, children, former, found, indigenous, school No Comments »Remains of 215 children found at Canadian Indigenous school
May 29th, 2021 Awake Goy The remains of 215 children have been found buried at the site of a former residential school in Canada established more than a century ago to assimilate indigenous people into mainstream society, according to a local Aboriginal community. An expert spotted the human remains last weekend using geo-radar at the site of the former residential […]
Columbus Day Reinstated After Experts Learn Indigenous Peoples He Conquered Only Believed In Two Genders
May 9th, 2021 Awake Goy Columbus Day Reinstated After Experts Learn Indigenous Peoples He Conquered Only Believed In Two Genders NEW YORK, NY—Just as suddenly as the New York City school board announced they would celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead of Columbus Day, the school board has now announced they are rescinding that change. This was because, after further research, […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: after, Columbus, experts, indigenous, learn, peoples, reinstated No Comments »‘Milestone’ in indigenous defense capabilities: Taiwan launches 10,000-ton amphibious transport ship
April 13th, 2021 Awake Goy A bottle-throwing ceremony marked the launch of Taiwan’s domestically developed ‘Yushan’ vessel, the navy’s 10,000-ton-class amphibious transport ship, which will enter service in 2022. Speaking on Tuesday, President Tsai Ing-wen hailed the “milestone” in the country’s indigenous warship building plans as the amphibious transport vessel was launched. “I believe that this ship will certainly strengthen […]
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April 12th, 2021 Awake Goy “Suppose there are ten people in this room. Seven are starving, and one is winning medals, and two are doing OK. And I say, ‘Look at these seven people who are starving,’ and you say, ‘Oh, don’t be so negative, no, things are not so bad – look at the other three.’ Really?” Arundhati […]
Indigenous communities march for justice a year on from devastating Amazon oil spill
April 11th, 2021 Awake Goy Hundreds of Indigenous activists took to the streets in Ecuador this week to demand justice on the one-year anniversary of the country’s worst oil spill in 15 years. Demonstrators marched through the Amazonian city of Coca to call on authorities to take responsibility for the 16,000 barrels of crude oil that poured into the Coca […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Amazon, communities, devastating, indigenous, justice, march, spill No Comments »Colombia: Over 3,600 Indigenous Rights Violations In The First Months Of 2021
April 10th, 2021 Awake Goy The recent upsurge in state and right-wing violence has left all of Colombia reeling, but Indigenous communities have been particularly affected by it. This is evident from recent data published in a report by the Human Rights Observatory of the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC). The report revealed that between January 1st and March […]
Claudia Andujar: Photographing the fragile way of life of the indigenous Yanomami people
April 10th, 2021 Awake Goy Amazonian Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa wrote his 2013 book The Falling Sky: “A path of light opened before my eyes and unknown beings came towards me. “They had the appearance of tiny human beings with black saki tails around their foreheads and their hair covered in white down feathers. They approached with slow movements, in […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: andujar, claudia, fragile, indigenous, people, photographing, yanomami No Comments »Indigenous youth take to DC streets with demands to #ShutDownDAPL and #StopLine3
April 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy A group of Indigenous youth activists rallied in the nation’s capital on Thursday to demand President Joe Biden reject fossil fuel pipelines including Line 3 and the Dakota Access Pipeline. “We came to D.C. to give the fossil fuel snake back to the U.S. We don’t want the pipelines you snaked through our communities without […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: demands, indigenous, shutdowndapl, stopline3, streets, youth No Comments »Murder by Decree is an uncensored record of the planned extermination of indigenous children in Canada’s murderous “Indian residential schools”
March 30th, 2021 Awake Goy About Murder by Decree Murder by Decree is an uncensored record of the planned extermination of indigenous children in Canada’s murderous “Indian residential schools”. It is issued as a corrective Counter Report to the miscarriage of justice by Church and State known as the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” (TRC). Based on eyewitness testimonies and archival […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: decree, extermination, indigenous, Murder, planned, record, uncensored No Comments »Indigenous food skills in southwest Iran made national heritage
March 16th, 2021 Awake Goy TEHRAN – The skills of making three local dishes, which are popular in the southwestern Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari province, have been added to the National Intangible Cultural Heritage list, a local tourism official has said. The expertise of making Kardin Ash, which is eaten as breakfast in the spring, as well as the skills of making Tamnideh […]
The ‘Power’ Of The Quartz Crystal From An Indigenous Point of View
March 11th, 2021 Awake Goy Take a moment and breathe. Place your hand over your chest area, near your heart. Breathe slowly into the area for about a minute, focusing on a sense of ease entering your mind and body. Click here to learn why we suggest this. IMAGE CREDIT: Sergey Svistunov We are having a Full Moon in Virgo […]
