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UTQIAGVIK : WHALE SNOWDoreen Cunningham

Doreen Cunningham — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 07:31:09 +0000

Latitude: 71° 17′ 26″ N Longitude: 156° 47′ 19″ W Big fat flakes of snow drifted past the kitchen window. I watched them fall, while stirring honey into my oatmeal. ‘Whale snow.’ Julia sighed. ‘That’s the kind of snow you get when whales are around. They’re out there. Just we can’t get to them.’ [...]

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Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World | Tyson Yunkaporta

XR Writers Rebel — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 23:11:57 +0000

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The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis | Amitav Ghosh

Katie Percival — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 11:42:27 +0000

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What We Find in the Guts of the Bodies that the River Gives UsPhilip Webb Gregg

Philip Webb Gregory — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 08:00:48 +0000

There is a place where the river meets the land; a kink in the direction of the water, so that the usually tranquil current froths to a restless swirl, and things wash up onto the grass like bad food spat out. For the past two weeks we have been pulling bodies from that place [...]

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The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman | Davi Kopenawa & Bruce Albert

Katie Percival — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:51:49 +0000

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Read: Hope in the Amazon: Interview with Jimmy Piaguaje

beth — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 08:16:05 +0000

Jimmy Piaguaje is a young indigenous Siekopai defender from Siekoya Remolino, a community of 53 families living on the banks of the Aguarico River in the northeastern Ecuadorian Amazon region. The Siekopai (which means multicoloured people) are renowned for their shamanic acumen and knowledge of medicinal plants, with uses for over 1,000 different plants. According [...]

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Read: Voice of the Living Forest: Interview with Indigenous Resistance Leader José Gualinga

beth — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 07:09:42 +0000

José Gualinga is a leader of the Native People of Sarayaku, an indigenous Kichwa group with 1400 inhabitants living in a remote part of Ecuador’s southern Amazon. Known for their defence of the rights of nature and indigenous peoples, the Sarayaku call themselves the People of Noon, referring to an ancient prophecy of their ancestors [...]

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Leer: Nayra Chalán en el aniversario de la rebelión indígena de Ecuador

beth — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 07:07:32 +0000

Writers Rebel entrevista a Nayra Chalán, una líder indígena de Ecuador que tuvo un papel clave en el levantamiento indígena de octubre de 2019. [...]

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Listen: Nina Lahkani asks ‘Who Killed Berta Cáceres?’

toby — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 07:33:18 +0000

Ever wonder who the pink boat in Oxford Circus was named after? Berta Cáceres was a Lenca from Honduras who won the prestigious Goldman Prize. She was subsequently murdered in her own home for resisting work on the Agua Zarca dam. The Writers Rebel podcast focuses on indigenous environmental defenders this episode, and [...]

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