Indigenous peoples articles
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Thousands of Indigenous people gather in Brazil to protest Lula's land grant decisions
Thousands of Indigenous people began gathering in Brazil's capital on Monday for what was expected to become a protest against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's unfulfilled promises to create reserves and expel illegal miners and land-grabbers from their territories. Holding Lula's government to account appeared to be the focus of this year's 20th Free Land Camp, an annual weeklong encampment of Indigenous people in Brasilia. CONSERVATIVE BRAZILIANS LAUD ELON MUSK AT RALLY IN SUPPORT OF...
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‘A roof over our people’s heads’: the Indigenous US tribe building hempcrete homes
Minnesota’s Lower Sioux Indian Community is pioneering green building with its fully integrated hempcrete facility – a first in the countryWhen Earl Pendleton first heard about building houses out of hemp more than a decade ago, it seemed like a far-fetched idea.To start, it was still illegal to grow hemp – the non-psychoactive strain of Cannabis sativa – in the US. Importing it from overseas was prohibitively expensive. But Pendleton, a member of the Lower Sioux Indian Community, was intrigued...
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What happens when people deceive people, P-D-P, by Emmanuel Aziken
For those with PDP DNA in their system, it was eerie that the once-dominant political party could have been so swept aside to the point of irrelevance in the polity