I’ll start in the early 1990s, not long after capitalism won its war against Soviet Communism in the bleak mountains of Afghanistan. The Indian government, which was for many years one of the leaders of the nonaligned movement, suddenly became a completely aligned country and began to call itself the natural ally of the U.S. and Israel. It opened up its protected markets to global capital. Most people [at this […]
Barbara Savage: Preserving the Ethnosphere—Humanity’s Greatest Legacy
There is a war being waged on the planet—and indigenous cultures are among the greatest casualties of that war. In North America, we often think that the genocide of indigenous cultures is a thing of the past. Unfortunately, it continues wherever wild earth remains—in the Amazon rainforest, the Kalahari Desert, the jungles of Indonesia. And it also continues among Native Americans who struggle to recreate cultural identities when their traditional […]
Lenore Stiffarm: Reflections from Dry Lake
It is night time in the winter at Dry Lake. There is a full moon out. We are riding through the snow. Dad has hooked up the team of horses, Prince and Cooney, to the sleigh. Blankets are thrown on top of us. It is as if we are floating through the field. We can see our breath in the moonlight. It is cold, but we are warm. There is […]
Lenore Stiffarm: So that you will know
My Dad, a hock nak, which means the rock, always said, “As Indians, we never give up. Keep going. Keep our family strong. Be good to one another. Care for one another. Get an education. Stand together. Keep your land. Don’t plow it up. Never ask for a hand out. Don’t hang around the Fort. When someone is having good things happen for her/him, put aside your feelings and go […]
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