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On Wednesday May 15th 2019 the US House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at preserving the federal trust status of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe’s land in Massachusetts. The legislation would reaffirm the Massachusetts tribe’s sovereignty over 321 acres of land held in trust…
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RÚV 03.05.2019 – 17:32.Kristján Sigurjónsson.Spegillinn Hætta er talin á að hátt í 90% tungumála heimsins deyi út fyrir næstu aldamót. Árið 2019 er Ár frumbyggjatungumála hjá Sameinuðu þjóðunum. Frægt Bítlalag sem hljóðritað var á Mi’kmaq máli frumbyggja N-Ameríku, hefur slegið í gegn í Kanada….
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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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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 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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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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Posted on 10. December, 2017
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Mexico (Yucatán Peninsula) The Mayans in the Yucatán Peninsula call themselves simply Maya. Anthropologists and linguists call their language Yucatec Maya. People of Maya ancestry are about 3 million in the Peninsula but only about 1.2 million speak to varying degree the Maya language….
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Posted on 8. December, 2017
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This is the first part of what will become a seven part series about the modern day Maya peoples in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. Since the arrival of Spanish conquistadors to their lands from the 16th century onward, they have had…
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The Mashpee Wampanoag and the broader question of a genuine home rule for Native Americans
Posted on 22. May, 2019 by Man in the World
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On Wednesday May 15th 2019 the US House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at preserving the federal trust status of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe’s land in Massachusetts. The legislation would reaffirm the Massachusetts tribe’s sovereignty over 321 acres of land held in trust…
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Category: Political CommentaryTags: featured, home rule, Lakota, Native Americans, Navaho, Tecumseh, Wampanoag
Bítlalag slær í gegn á frumbyggjamáli
Posted on 4. May, 2019 by Man in the World
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RÚV 03.05.2019 – 17:32.Kristján Sigurjónsson.Spegillinn Hætta er talin á að hátt í 90% tungumála heimsins deyi út fyrir næstu aldamót. Árið 2019 er Ár frumbyggjatungumála hjá Sameinuðu þjóðunum. Frægt Bítlalag sem hljóðritað var á Mi’kmaq máli frumbyggja N-Ameríku, hefur slegið í gegn í Kanada….
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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, featured, Native Americans, USA
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
7. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas
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
6. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas
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
5. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas
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
4. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas
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
3. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas
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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2. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas
Posted on 10. December, 2017 by Man in the World
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Mexico (Yucatán Peninsula) The Mayans in the Yucatán Peninsula call themselves simply Maya. Anthropologists and linguists call their language Yucatec Maya. People of Maya ancestry are about 3 million in the Peninsula but only about 1.2 million speak to varying degree the Maya language….
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1. Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas
Posted on 8. December, 2017 by Man in the World
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This is the first part of what will become a seven part series about the modern day Maya peoples in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. Since the arrival of Spanish conquistadors to their lands from the 16th century onward, they have had…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: featured, loosing a culture, Maya, modern day Maya, Native Americans, pre-columbian, Yucatan
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