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Went to Cuba for a couple of days. An interesting experience to say the least. Met both kindness and rudeness from the locals. Cuba has often been described as the great socialist experiment, especially by those not living the day-to-day life there. But, as…
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This is a love-and-hate story being played out in real life in the Yucutan Peninsula. On the one hand we have the indigenous Mayans of the Yucatán Peninsula who have a fascinating and world renown history of cities, pyramids, remarkable science achievements, writing, roads,…
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Known in Lenape time as Manaháhtaan on a river called Muhheakantuck, part of the ancestral domain of the Lenape-speaking peoples that inhabited the Lenapehoking. Today this territory stretches from Virginia to New England and Manhattan now is a borough within New York City that…
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Þann 31. maí 2018 var haldin áhugaverður fundur í fyrirlestrarsal Íslenskrar erfðagreiningar um uppruna Íslendinga og nýjar erfðafræðirannsóknir á því málefni. Jafnframt kom út í tímaritinu Science ritstýrð grein mannfræðinganna Sunnu Ebenesarsdóttur og Agnars Helgasonar ásamt Kára Stefánssyni, forstjóra Íslenskrar erfðagreiningar. Meginniðurstaða fundarins var…
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To speak or not to speak, that is the big question. It is a general understanding among Mexicans that to identify as Native American one must speak an indigenous language. Thus a native marker is not the colour of the skin, one’s ancestry, DNA…
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Posted on 26. April, 2018
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In April 2018 US president Donald J. Trump announced his plan that Native Americans be reclassified as a race instead of sovereign nations. Native Health Care would thus be disbanded and Native Americans thrust to use Medicaid and it’s faulty system of providing health…
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Although built on Native American land, few things in Toronto remind people of that past. With the intention of changing that fact, a project was started to rename some of Toronto’s street names to reflect that heritage. The project is run by Hayden King…
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Slaves were a highly sought after commodity in the new Spanish colony of New Mexico. The first slaves that tilled the farms of the Spanish farmers were Puebloans, Apaches, Navahos, Pawnees, Kiowas and Comanches. It is estimated that at the time of the Great…
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Category: Chaticks si Chaticks (Pawnee), Diné (Navaho), Indé (Apache), Kaigwu (Kiowa), Native Americans, Numunú (Comanche, Shoshone), PueblosTags: Comanche, featured, Genizaros, Native Americans, Navaho, New Mexico, Pueblos, Towa
In New Mexico is a rich culture that blends together Anglo, Hispanic and Native American elements in a fascinating way. The area is rich in history where dramatic and often times tragic historic events, shape the modern day reality. Among the earliest accounts are…
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Category: Native Americans, PueblosTags: featured, Keresan, Native Americans, Navaho, New Mexico, Pueblos, Tanoans, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa
Posted on 27. January, 2018
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Being a woman in Guatemala isn’t easy. The small central American country has one of the highest rates of femicide in the world, with at least two women murdered every day. Being an indigenous woman in Guatemala is even harder. In addition to the…
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Posted on 27. January, 2018
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Frans páfi segir frumbyggja á Amazon-svæðinu aldrei hafa verið í jafn mikilli hættu og nú á dögum. Hann krafðist þess að bundinn verði endi á rányrkju timburs, gulls og gastegunda á svæiðnu. Fulltrúar um 400 frumbyggjaþjóða í Perú mættu á fund páfa í borginni…
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Posted on 19. January, 2018
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A very interesting article about a federal recognition for Native American groups in Virginia. WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate has sent a bill to the president’s desk that would give six Virginia Native American tribes federal recognition. U.S. Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner…
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Posted on 18. January, 2018
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Pope Francis has used a public address in Chile to denounce violence and call for unity in one of the country’s longest-running conflicts. Speaking in southern Araucania region, the pontiff said “destructive violence” between the indigenous Mapuche people and the state was not the…
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Posted on 17. January, 2018
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Mynd: EPA Vísndamenn telja sig loks hafa fundið orsök þess að nærri öll Astekaþjóðin þurrkaðist út á einu strái. Faraldur sem hófst árið 1545 varð á endanum um 15 milljónum manna að bana á þeim fimm árum sem hann gekk yfir þjóðina. …
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Posted on 20. December, 2017
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El Salvador El Salvador lies on the Pacific coast and is the smallest of the Central American countries. Most of the country rests on a fertile volcanic plateau. The development of coffee estates led to the slow but continuous dissolution of most of the…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Achi, El Salvador, featured, Honduras, Lenca, Maya, Native Americans, Pipil, pre-columbian
Posted on 19. December, 2017
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Honduras In the western corner of Honduras live the 51,000 strong Ch’orti’ Maya people, cousins of the Cholán Mayans in the Guatemalan lowlands who were responsible for many of the city states like Tikal that the Mayans are famous for. The once mighty Copán…
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Posted on 16. December, 2017
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Belize The indigenous people in Belize are concentrated mainly in the south and west of the country, in the Corozal, Cayo, Toledo and Orange Walk districts. They are mostly of two main groups. Various Maya groups and the Garifuna who are mostly African in origin but have taken on Cariban language…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Belize, Chol, featured, Guatemala, Maya, Mexico, Mopan, Native Americans, Q'eqchi, Yucatan
Posted on 14. December, 2017
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Guatemala The territory of modern Guatemala once formed the core of the Maya civilization of the highlands. Most of the country was conquered by the Spanish in the 16th century, becoming part of the vice royalty of New Spain. Guatemala attained independence in 1821 as part of the Federal…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: featured, Guatemala, Ixil, Kiche, Mam, Maya, Mexico, pre-columbian, Quiche
Posted on 12. December, 2017
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Mexico (Chiapas) Inhabited mostly by a majority Maya populations of the closely related Tzotzil and Tzeltal ethnic groups in the highlands, the Chol of the forests in the north who inhabited the whole Usumacinta River valley in the Mayan Classic period, the Toholabal and…
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Category: Native Americans
Cuba Libre! Being Stuck in a Timeloop
Posted on 13. July, 2018 by Man in the World
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Went to Cuba for a couple of days. An interesting experience to say the least. Met both kindness and rudeness from the locals. Cuba has often been described as the great socialist experiment, especially by those not living the day-to-day life there. But, as…
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Category: Native Americans, Political Commentary, TravelTags: Cuba, culture, Native Americans, socialism, Taino
Mayans in the Modern World: People With a Celebrated History Downtrodden in the Present
Posted on 3. July, 2018 by Man in the World
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This is a love-and-hate story being played out in real life in the Yucutan Peninsula. On the one hand we have the indigenous Mayans of the Yucatán Peninsula who have a fascinating and world renown history of cities, pyramids, remarkable science achievements, writing, roads,…
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Category: Che (Mapuche), Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Mapuche, Maya, Mexico, modern day Maya, Native Americans, Yucatan
New York, New York: The City of Immigrants on Stolen Land
Posted on 26. June, 2018 by Man in the World
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Known in Lenape time as Manaháhtaan on a river called Muhheakantuck, part of the ancestral domain of the Lenape-speaking peoples that inhabited the Lenapehoking. Today this territory stretches from Virginia to New England and Manhattan now is a borough within New York City that…
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Category: Lenape, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Lenape, Manhattan, Munsee, Native Americans, New York, pre-columbian
Uppruni Íslendinga
Posted on 1. June, 2018 by Man in the World
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Þann 31. maí 2018 var haldin áhugaverður fundur í fyrirlestrarsal Íslenskrar erfðagreiningar um uppruna Íslendinga og nýjar erfðafræðirannsóknir á því málefni. Jafnframt kom út í tímaritinu Science ritstýrð grein mannfræðinganna Sunnu Ebenesarsdóttur og Agnars Helgasonar ásamt Kára Stefánssyni, forstjóra Íslenskrar erfðagreiningar. Meginniðurstaða fundarins var…
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Category: Native Americans, Political Commentary, ScandinaviansTags: Celts, culture, DNA, Icelanders, Native Americans, Nordics
A Way of Speaking: Identifying as Native American in Mexico
Posted on 17. May, 2018 by Man in the World
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To speak or not to speak, that is the big question. It is a general understanding among Mexicans that to identify as Native American one must speak an indigenous language. Thus a native marker is not the colour of the skin, one’s ancestry, DNA…
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Category: Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: culture, identity, Mexico, Native Americans
Trump’s War Against Native Americans: Continuation of Genocidal Policies
Posted on 26. April, 2018 by Man in the World
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In April 2018 US president Donald J. Trump announced his plan that Native Americans be reclassified as a race instead of sovereign nations. Native Health Care would thus be disbanded and Native Americans thrust to use Medicaid and it’s faulty system of providing health…
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Category: Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Donald Trump, Native Americans, USA
Toronto in Anishinaabeg
Posted on 24. April, 2018 by Man in the World
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Although built on Native American land, few things in Toronto remind people of that past. With the intention of changing that fact, a project was started to rename some of Toronto’s street names to reflect that heritage. The project is run by Hayden King…
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Category: Anishinaabeg (Ojibwa), Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Anishinaabeg, Canada, Native Americans, Ojibwa, Toronto
Awakening of the Genizaros: Slaves, Servants, Invisible People
Posted on 23. March, 2018 by Man in the World
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Slaves were a highly sought after commodity in the new Spanish colony of New Mexico. The first slaves that tilled the farms of the Spanish farmers were Puebloans, Apaches, Navahos, Pawnees, Kiowas and Comanches. It is estimated that at the time of the Great…
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Category: Chaticks si Chaticks (Pawnee), Diné (Navaho), Indé (Apache), Kaigwu (Kiowa), Native Americans, Numunú (Comanche, Shoshone), PueblosTags: Comanche, featured, Genizaros, Native Americans, Navaho, New Mexico, Pueblos, Towa
Secrecy, Culture, History: The Pueblos Way to Survival
Posted on 23. March, 2018 by Man in the World
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In New Mexico is a rich culture that blends together Anglo, Hispanic and Native American elements in a fascinating way. The area is rich in history where dramatic and often times tragic historic events, shape the modern day reality. Among the earliest accounts are…
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Category: Native Americans, PueblosTags: featured, Keresan, Native Americans, Navaho, New Mexico, Pueblos, Tanoans, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa
Gender violence in Guatemala: ‘A woman’s struggle is everyone’s struggle’
Posted on 27. January, 2018 by Man in the World
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Being a woman in Guatemala isn’t easy. The small central American country has one of the highest rates of femicide in the world, with at least two women murdered every day. Being an indigenous woman in Guatemala is even harder. In addition to the…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Guatemala, Mam, Maya, Quiche
Aldrei meiri hætta steðjað að íbúum Amazon
Posted on 27. January, 2018 by Man in the World
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Frans páfi segir frumbyggja á Amazon-svæðinu aldrei hafa verið í jafn mikilli hættu og nú á dögum. Hann krafðist þess að bundinn verði endi á rányrkju timburs, gulls og gastegunda á svæiðnu. Fulltrúar um 400 frumbyggjaþjóða í Perú mættu á fund páfa í borginni…
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Category: Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Amazon, Native Americans, Pope Francis, South America
Bill passes to give Six Virginia Native American tribes federal recognition
Posted on 19. January, 2018 by Man in the World
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A very interesting article about a federal recognition for Native American groups in Virginia. WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate has sent a bill to the president’s desk that would give six Virginia Native American tribes federal recognition. U.S. Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner…
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Category: Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Algonquians, Native Americans, Powhatans, Virginia
Pope Francis urges end to Chile’s Mapuche conflict
Posted on 18. January, 2018 by Man in the World
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Pope Francis has used a public address in Chile to denounce violence and call for unity in one of the country’s longest-running conflicts. Speaking in southern Araucania region, the pontiff said “destructive violence” between the indigenous Mapuche people and the state was not the…
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Category: Che (Mapuche), Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Araucania, Chile, Mapuche, Pope Francis, Temuco
500 ára farsótt Asteka af völdum salmonellu
Posted on 17. January, 2018 by Man in the World
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Mynd: EPA Vísndamenn telja sig loks hafa fundið orsök þess að nærri öll Astekaþjóðin þurrkaðist út á einu strái. Faraldur sem hófst árið 1545 varð á endanum um 15 milljónum manna að bana á þeim fimm árum sem hann gekk yfir þjóðina. …
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Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas, Part 7
Posted on 20. December, 2017 by Man in the World
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El Salvador El Salvador lies on the Pacific coast and is the smallest of the Central American countries. Most of the country rests on a fertile volcanic plateau. The development of coffee estates led to the slow but continuous dissolution of most of the…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Achi, El Salvador, featured, Honduras, Lenca, Maya, Native Americans, Pipil, pre-columbian
Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas, Part 6
Posted on 19. December, 2017 by Man in the World
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Honduras In the western corner of Honduras live the 51,000 strong Ch’orti’ Maya people, cousins of the Cholán Mayans in the Guatemalan lowlands who were responsible for many of the city states like Tikal that the Mayans are famous for. The once mighty Copán…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Chorti, featured, Honduras, Maya, Mexico, pre-columbian
Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas, Part 5
Posted on 16. December, 2017 by Man in the World
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Belize The indigenous people in Belize are concentrated mainly in the south and west of the country, in the Corozal, Cayo, Toledo and Orange Walk districts. They are mostly of two main groups. Various Maya groups and the Garifuna who are mostly African in origin but have taken on Cariban language…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Belize, Chol, featured, Guatemala, Maya, Mexico, Mopan, Native Americans, Q'eqchi, Yucatan
Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas, Part 4
Posted on 14. December, 2017 by Man in the World
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Guatemala The territory of modern Guatemala once formed the core of the Maya civilization of the highlands. Most of the country was conquered by the Spanish in the 16th century, becoming part of the vice royalty of New Spain. Guatemala attained independence in 1821 as part of the Federal…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: featured, Guatemala, Ixil, Kiche, Mam, Maya, Mexico, pre-columbian, Quiche
Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas, Part 3
Posted on 12. December, 2017 by Man in the World
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Mexico (Chiapas) Inhabited mostly by a majority Maya populations of the closely related Tzotzil and Tzeltal ethnic groups in the highlands, the Chol of the forests in the north who inhabited the whole Usumacinta River valley in the Mayan Classic period, the Toholabal and…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: featured, Maya, modern day Maya, Native Americans, pre-columbian
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