Oil and Indigenous Communities
On a drizzly morning in late February, a boat full of silent Kukama men motored slowly into the flooded forest off the Marañón River in northern Peru. Cutting the…
Read MoreOn a drizzly morning in late February, a boat full of silent Kukama men motored slowly into the flooded forest off the Marañón River in northern Peru. Cutting the…
Read MoreThe Guna or Kuna, an indigenous people of Panama, suffer from the same waste problems as the rest of the world, with the added complications caused by life…
Read MoreAt first glance, the indigenous women—known as cholitas—looked like all the others who dance in the festive parades that regularly weave through the…
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A telltale detail gave away the changing way of life for the indigenous Machiguenga women living around Peru’s most important gas project in the…
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If you arrived in a country where almost 90% of the inhabitants speak Guarani, an official and national language along with Spanish but do not identify themselves as “Indian” or aboriginal…