Tag: Indigenous
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Mount Rushmore: Tip of Iceberg
“Mount Rushmore is named after a gold prospector who had illegally entered into Lakota treaty territory to begin prospecting. … The Black Hills [where Mount Rushmore is located] were also a place of origin and a place of cultural and spiritual significance for over 50 Indigenous nations.
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Challenging Monuments to “Colonialism and Slavery”
“As the movement for black lives protests against police violence … has spread to every part of the United States and around the world, some have turned to the glaring public symbols of the history that empowers such violence — colonialism and slavery.
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Bolivia: U.S.-Backed OAS Helped Oust Indigenous Leader
“If the OAS (Organization of American States) and Secretary General Luis Almagro are allowed to get away with such politically driven falsification of their electoral observation results again, this threatens not only Bolivian democracy but the democracy of any country where the OAS may be involved in elections in the future.”