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California’s longest serving death-row prisoner on pain and Native identity

August 1, 2022 By Special to People’s World

As the Monache and Cherokee 63-year-old awaits a new hearing for a 1978 murder he denies committing, Douglas Ray Stankewitz shares the cultural tools and memories he depends on to stay alive.

Bring our children home: Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho confront boarding school era

July 27, 2022 By Markus McAdams

Many of the tribes’ children vanished forever into the U.S. government’s apparatus of cultural genocide.

Indigenous rights take center stage in Chile’s new constitution

July 20, 2022 By Graham Holton

A new charter will replace the hated neoliberal constitution put in place by the U.S.-backed Pinochet dictatorship.

Indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira killed: ‘They thought they could get away with it’

July 15, 2022 By Beatriz Matos

The widow of Indigenist Bruno Pereira asks for reinforcement in the protection of the Indigenous peoples of Amazonia.

Peoples of the Xingu join forces to confront the worst destruction ever registered

July 11, 2022 By Sandra Silva

Indigenous people and riverbank dwellers discuss strategies to protect territories during the Xingu+ Network in the village of Khikatxi, Xingu Indigenous Territory (XIT).