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Stuff.co.nz
February 25, 2018
laughed Geranio. We were fishing in the Amazon Basin on the edge of the world's most bio-diverse ecosystem. I was there to spend time with the Waorani, one of Ecuador's Indigenous tribes who today number no more than 3000. Not that any of that mattered to the piranha. Getting to the Amazon had beenÃÂ ...
Mintpress News
February 25, 2018
A concerted push is underway in South America that could see the Guarani Aquifer, one of the world's largest reserves of fresh water, soon fall into the hands of ... Named after the Guarani indigenous people, the Guarani Aquifer is the world's second largest underground water reserve and is estimated to beÃÂ ...
Terre Haute Tribune Star
February 22, 2018
She has lectured and presented exhibitions documenting the plight of indigenous peoples throughout North and South America. Monday's lecture is sponsored by EIU's art and design, history, and journalism departments, Latin American studies, the humanities center and the provost's office. The BuzzardÃÂ ...
UCalgary News
February 15, 2018
Baptiste's colleague in the Faculty of Nursing, Heather Bensler, BN'96, co-director, Indigenous initiatives, shares similar sentiments. Although she doesn't consider herself an expert in Indigenous health, Bensler spent three years working in South America with Indigenous communities, helping them to takeÃÂ ...
The Conversation AU
February 13, 2018
Many Indigenous Athletes have represented Australia at the Summer Olympics. But, in Pyeongchang, figure skater Harley Windsor is set to become Australia's first Indigenous Winter Olympian. While Windsor's ... South American involvement started with Argentina at the second Winter Olympics in 1928.
University of Virginia
February 1, 2018
Thanks to the continued efforts of UVA's Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, it is also a premiere destination for Australian Aboriginal art. ... in the New York City museum's Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, which houses art from sub-Saharan Africa, the Pacific islands and North, Central and South America.
Niagara Gazette
January 31, 2018
... "the Indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100-million people. The European and white-American destruction of the native peoples of The Americas was theÃÂ ...
Miami Herald
January 27, 2018
The wailing newborn had just gone from purple to pink when researchers from Duke University whisked her out of the delivery ward and started collecting fingernail clippings and saliva swabs. Investigators are hoping that Sofia, and infants like her, can provide clues about how rampant gold mining in thisÃÂ ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
January 27, 2018
Indigenous to France, where it makes rather rustic wines in the Cahors region, Malbec was brought to Argentina in the 19th century. While the grape's status has diminished greatly in France, it has gotten a second lease on life in Argentina, where the dry, sun-kissed climate and complex soils produce dark,ÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
January 19, 2018
"Forests, rivers, and streams are exploited mercilessly, then left barren and unusable," the pope declared in a second speech to a crowd of both Indigenous and nonnative listeners. "Persons are also treated the same way: They are used until someone gets tired of them, then abandoned as 'useless.'".
Firstpost
January 18, 2018
The 81-year-old pontiff has confronted sensitive issues at every turn since he began his visit Monday, offering an apology to victims of priestly sexual abuse, praying with survivors of Augusto Pinochet's brutal dictatorship, and calling for protection of the rights of Chile's persecuted Indigenous communities.
Herald-Whig
January 18, 2018
shropshirestar.com
January 17, 2018
The leaders also want Francis to back their call for the state to grant 20 million hectares (77,000 square miles) in collective land rights to Indigenous groups. That is an area roughly equivalent in size to Senegal. An estimated 4,000 people from indigenous groups throughout South America will gather toÃÂ ...
KIRO Seattle
January 17, 2018
SBS
January 17, 2018
"This has the potential to affect commercial, recreational and Indigenous fish stock." He said it was vital to investigate how many of the fish were in the river and where. "We then need to eradicate them as quickly as possible," he said. He said electrofishing - where fish are stunned with an electric shock,ÃÂ ...
Voice of America
January 16, 2018
Deadline
January 16, 2018
PBS said recent discoveries informed by Native American oral histories have produced "new perspective" on North and South America that ancient people across these two continents may have been part of a single interconnected world. The series was made with the active participation of Native-AmericanÃÂ ...
NPR
January 16, 2018
They're completely ignoring it. I mean, they're - they are - he's addressing the issue of migrant, which is another major issue in Chile. There's something like 800,000 migrants in this country, 400,000 of which - possibly 200,000 to 400,000 are undocumented. There is an issue with the indigenous people inÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
January 15, 2018
Valley News
January 10, 2018
Concord -- An effort to rename "Columbus Day" as " indigenous peoples' Day" reached the New Hampshire House on Wednesday, bringing a ... Instead, Pouliot recommended Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian who sailed around South America and lent his name to both continents, as a more appropriate hero.
New York Times
January 3, 2018
The Verge
January 3, 2018
The Spokesman-Review
January 3, 2018
Intercontinental Cry
December 30, 2017
... longest river in South America. On September 30th, 2016, after the attempted eviction, twelve squad cars belonging to the Special Group of Operations branch of the National police (GEO), the Mounted police and civil servants from the Paraguayan Indigenous Institute (INDI) arrived in the village to checkÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
December 28, 2017
This is possibly the hottest place in South America, where more than 2,000 Indigenous and campesino (impoverished farmer) families living in remote locations face chronic water deficits. Between 100 and 80 years ago, campesino settlers called criollos moved to the area, creating tension and conflictsÃÂ ...
The Intercept
December 28, 2017
"This Is Not A Symbolic Action" -- Indigenous Protesters Occupy Oil Platforms in Radicalized Fight Against pollution in the Amazon ..... long-term regional infrastructure and development program, led by Brazil, known as IIRSA, or the Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America.
MTL Blog (blog)
December 14, 2017
... deaths a year in South America. It may lead to sudden death due to cardiac arrhythmia, or progressive heart failure caused by the destruction of the heart muscle. Anyone who had a blood transfusion between 2009 and 2010 is at risk. As is anyone whose mother was born in a country, where this disease is Indigenous.
Time Out
December 13, 2017
Magali flew from Argentina to Tel Aviv six years ago and immediately fell in love with its vibes. "The people, the city, the nightlife, the freedom. I just loved it!" She finds it easy to relate to Israelis: "They are very passionate like us; sometimes aggressive, sometimes intense, but most of the time, it comes fromÃÂ ...
National Geographic
December 12, 2017
"When I first saw the reconstruction, I saw some of my Indigenous friends from Huarmey in this face," says National Geographic grantee Miłosz Giersz, the archaeologist who co-discovered the noblewoman's tomb. ... Nilsson isn't the first to try reconstructing the faces of South America's pre-Columbian elite.
Discover Magazine (blog)
December 11, 2017
Often working with limited resources, many Indigenous groups are turning to drones to protect and preserve their traditional lands. Many Central and South American countries have laws that, on paper, limit what companies can do on indigenous lands. But enforcement is hit-or-miss. To make their voicesÃÂ ...
Newsweek
December 9, 2017
The project, one of the first in-depth studies of its kind, is tracing the way pre-Columbian cultures interacted with one another, with a goal of better understanding how those interactions shaped lowland South America's more recent history. Riris documents the new findings in a new paper in the journalÃÂ ...
Manila Bulletin
December 31, 1999
When Pope Francis steps off his Alitalia plane at the start of a visit to South America next week, he will cast a rare global spotlight on the plight of the region's indigenous people. Francis begins his week-long trip in Chile's capital Santiago on Monday, but will also visit Temuco, 800 kilometers (500 miles) toÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
November 15, 2017
The Guardian
November 15, 2017
The Guardian
November 15, 2017
Catholic News Service
November 14, 2017
The Independent
November 13, 2017
A psychedelic drug brewed by Indigenous South American tribes could be used to treat alcoholism and depression, new research suggests.
Valley News
November 12, 2017
The pacu is a fish native to the Amazon region in South America. ... Later, I caught a peacock bass, a South American cichlid that has foundÃÂ ...
Johns Hopkins News-Letter
November 2, 2017
teleSUR English
November 2, 2017
teleSUR English
October 26, 2017
The annual competition will include Indigenous communities from all over ... the traditions of the Indigenous communities in the South AmericanÃÂ ...
SIU News
October 26, 2017
WisContext
October 25, 2017
Santa Fe New Mexican
October 25, 2017
There is, however, a pretty heavy focus on Native foods on the menu, ... go all the way through Central America and South America," Dale says, "and ... American wines, South American, Central American and Spanish wines.
artnet News
October 25, 2017
The show also features artists from a wide range of Indigenous backgrounds, notes Burke, including Paulo Nazareth, a South American artistÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
October 25, 2017
" Bolivia in South America is the first country with the best investment in ... the country's first Indigenous president, illiteracy was reduced fromÃÂ ...
Civil Eats
October 18, 2017
Aware of this urgency, Indigenous communities throughout North and South America are in the process of reclaiming their language, arts,ÃÂ ...
The Durango Herald
October 9, 2017
The daylong event is to take a different look at the history of North and South America from the viewpoints of Hispanic, African-American, NativeÃÂ ...
Yale Daily News (blog)
October 9, 2017
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