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© Translated by Paul M Worley and Melissa D Birkhofer The yopes: Mbo xtá rída/Skin-people During the Pre-hispanic period, the Mè’phàà language was known as Yopi, and its speakers were called Yopes or Tlapanecos, a name derived from the cacicazgo or chiefdom where they lived. Tlapaneco became the most important name for official histories, given …
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Introduction, selection and translation from Spanish by Elisa Taber Alba Eiragi Duarte Portillo is an Indigenous leader, teacher, and cultural promoter born in Curuguaty, Paraguay, in 1960. She is an Aché descendant, raised in an Avá-Guaraní community in Colonia Fortuna, Canindeyú Department. She holds a BA in Social Work and Communication, and a diploma in …
In bridging pop-culture with land issues and spirituality, indigenous youth have embraced genres such as rap, punk, jazz, graffiti, and heavy metal since the early 1990’s. In the case of hip-hop it shouldn’t surprise us that an aesthetic that was born at the crossroads between Black American, Caribbean and Latinx migrants at a time when …
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In both her art, writings and life, she highlights the abuses and consequences of systemic racism of the traditional ways of life of Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous teachings were passed along to her by her grandfather in Penosbscot Indian Island Reservation near Old Town, Maine. Her palimpsestic reflections on the passage of time are sensitive …
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By Juan G. Sánchez Martínez If you prefer to read as PDF, please click HERE At the turn of the century, animation was not the first option for Indigenous artists. Actually, when Joseph ᎧᎾᏘ Erb (Cherokee Nation) drove from Oklahoma to Philadelphia to do his Graduate Studies in Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, …
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Judith Santopietro was born in Córdoba (Veracruz, México) in 1983, though she was also raised between Ixhuatlán del Café and Boca del Monte, native communities in the Altas Montañas to which her family belongs. There she first heard stories about nahuales, chaneques, flying women, and other extraordinary beings from the Mesoamerican world. Her mother tongue …
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© Piam told by Cornelio Puelman in 1987 © Introduction and translation from Mapuzungun by Sandro Rivas Pichicura and Violeta Percia. © Pictures Violeta Percia © Translation from Spanish by Lorrie Jayne and Juan G. Sánchez Martínez If you prefer to read this as a PDF, click here Piam are the stories that are passed …
Original idea, pictures and interviews © Yaxkin Melchy Translation from Japanese and Spanish into English by Yaxkin Melchy Copy-editing by Sophie Lavoie Translation from Spanish to Japanese by Chizuko Osato 大里千津子 and Mitsuko Ando 安藤美津子 with revision by Yasuko Sagara 相良泰子 Japanese version below ↴ Interview with Tokūn Tanaka, head monk of the Dōkeiji 同慶 …
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Dulce naranja dulce luna © Gloria Mendoza Borda Introduction, selection and translation from Spanish © Andrea Echeverría If you prefer to read this as a PDF, click here Gloria Mendoza Borda (1948) is a renowned Peruvian poet from Puno who currently resides in Arequipa. She joined the Carlos Oquendo de Amat Group in the 1960s …
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The Breedlove Brothers © Byron Tenesaca Photography and Original Art © Byron Tenesaca Interview and Commentary © Juan Guillermo Sánchez Martínez Translation © Anya Skye Tucker When living far from the place we are born, it is always heartwarming to encounter a person who, like you, knows the experience of migrating, and remembers similar places …
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