The Thanksgiving Tale We Tell Is a Harmful Lie. As a Native American, I’ve Found a Better Way to Celebrate the Holiday
--by @the_sioux_chef
https://t.co/8TPDP1G9Aa
https://t.co/AAWsqv9hnd. The self-proclaimed interim president of #Bolivia doubting if protestors are actually indigenous because they’re wearing shoes
If you still believe that protests in Chile and Bolivia are basically the same and so therefore you should just support all of them, a reminder that in Chile protesters raised the Mapuche indigenous flag; in Bolivia they burnt the Whipala indigenous flag
One cannot look at the situation in Bolivia and ignore the overt and bourgeoning anti-Indigenous movement happening both in the streets and the halls of government. The situation is more than politics: it's a coup against the first people who make up the backbone of Bolivia
Women in bolivia who wear their traditional regalia are being physically attacked because theyre assumed to be “evo supporters”. in other words indigenous women are being attacked in bolivia for being and dressing “indigenous”.
These are spectacular palms high up in the Colombia Andes. Read about their evolutionary history, ecology, and threats to conservation https://t.co/bkyxvI5tkT via @NYTimes
It is our hope that the situation avoids further escalation and that our brothers and sisters in Bolivia remain safe and free to express their identities and way of life free of persecution.
As an organization which seeks to both educate and unite the first people's of the world, but especially of the America's, we are deeply concerned by the unfolding of events in #Bolivia. We see the outpouring of anti-indigenous sentiments around the country as well as from the
opposition party leaders as an affront not only to the undeniable progress that President Morales made in working with indigenous communities, but also as an affront to the first people of #Bolivia itself.
On the following day, The Andes Studies Program at @FIULACC will hosting another talk on Aymara Culture and Religion from the Andes. It will feature Dr. Jimenez Quispe, the former president of Universidad Pedagógica in Bolivia.
Next Wednesday, November 20th, our friends at the Andean Program and @FIULACC will be hosting an event discussing Aymara and Maya philosophies and Epistemologies. Come out!