At first glance, Steven Newcomb’s alarmist headline, “Dehumanization and a Deadly Medical Experiment on the Yanomami People,” grabs you and functions as the “click bait” it’s meant to be. Other than that, there’s nothing substantial in Newcomb’s review of the book, Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon (2000) — by … Continue reading I’m done with indian country today and their shoddy articles
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THE STORY BEHIND THE ‘BOOM’ OF MEXICAN HEROIN Alberto Najar BBC World, Mexico City Aug 19, 2013 [Google translation, with some editing for clarity, from the Spanish original.] In recent days a, question travels through government security offices and newsrooms of various media Mexico: why has violence increased in… Continue reading ‘BOOM’ OF MEXICAN HEROIN | #drugwar #fail #yamecanse #yamecanse2 #yamecanse3
This is only a test… Continue reading testing | #twitter #censors #yamecanse #hashtags
In our quest to regain indigenous identities, we often over-romanticize, overreact, overreach, overcompensate, and over-everything. In doing so, many have accepted many things that are told to them by teachers, elders, etc., without giving things a second thought. As a result, we have come to accept as fact a great number of things that are … Continue reading The word #Azteca was NOT created by Von Humboldt! | #NikanTitlakah #decolonize
In 1978, 32-year-old Efrain Gutierrez found himself locked up in a Bexar County jail cell on trumped-up drug conspiracy charges. The Vietnam War had sent many of his friends home in coffins draped with U.S. flags. Another war—the war on drugs—was just getting started in his West San Antonio barrio. Gutierrez watched as friends and … Continue reading Return of #Chicano Film Pioneer Efrain Gutierrez | The Texas Observer #orale #MAS
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I recently took a research trip to South Texas to further investigate the turn-of-the-century curandero (faith healer) Don Pedrito Jaramillo, one of the subjects of my dissertation. The main purpose of this trip was to look at the J.T. Canales Estate Papers at the South Texas Archives at Texas A&M-Kingsville.… Continue reading Doing Research in Local Archives
Kurly Tlapoyawa, author of “We Will Rise” (2000), has just recently developed a Nahuatl flash card game to help in the learning of colors and numbers. Follow link for more info. Zentetl: A Nawatl Language Card Game. Continue reading Zentetl: A Nawatl Language Card Game | #Nahuatl #mexikaresistance
Acuña | Cal State LA’s academic apartheid and the silence of the lambs? | mexmigration: History and Politics of Mexican Immigration. Continue reading Acuña | Cal State LA’s academic apartheid and the silence of the lambs? | mexmigration: History and Politics of Mexican Immigration
The Deportee Chronicles: The Girl from Guajajalmiton – Salem-News.Com. Continue reading The Deportee Chronicles: The Girl from Guajajalmiton – Salem-News.Com
A must read–Critical essay that destroys a racist/chauvinist Marxist critique of the #EZLN and their revolution. Continue reading “A Commune In Chiapas?”: An Exercise in Racist ‘Anti-Imperialism’
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