Tag: riserve indiane
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Parlare di diritti dei Popoli Indigeni, oggi, è ancora un tabù. Perché?
In questa epoca di globalizzazione galoppante, la diversità culturale, espressa nelle usanze, nel linguaggio, nella musica e altri aspetti tradizionali diventa più che mai un prezioso patrimonio dell’umanità. Ma quello dei Popoli Indigeni è un argomento ancora poco discusso e spesso ignorato. Ne parliamo in un’intervista con Raffaella Milandri, giornalista, scrittrice e antropologa, fondatrice della…
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Revenge of the Native Americans? Killers of the Flower Moon and Lily Gladstone
At last, there is talk of Native Americans. From Scorsese’s latest film, however, more was expected. In the meantime, millions of Native Americans have been hoping to applaud Lily Gladstone, the first Native American ever nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress.
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What lies behind Pope Francis’ apology to Native Americans
Recall that between 2021 and 2022, a global media storm hit the Catholic Church regarding the Native people of North America: the discovery of unmarked graves, the terrible Indian residential schools, and finally the apology by Pope Francis. Let us analyse, in brief, the issue.
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The truth about Indian reservations. The lands do not belong to the Native Americans
As on many topics related to Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples, there is much misinformation on Indian reservations, mainly caused by an attempt to conceal the injustices and abuses still suffered by American Indians and also by many Aboriginal peoples. After careful legislative study, we discover that Indian reservation territories are only given in ‘trust’…
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Forgetting the Native American Genocide: over 55 million dead
In recent wartime events we have often heard the term ‘genocide’. Let us clarify the definition and, above all, ask ourselves why the Indigenous Holocaust of the Americas is not mentioned in the tragic list of genocides.
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Sioux-Lakota ban Governor Kristi Noem from entering Indian reservations
The news that six out of nine Lakota tribes in South Dakota have banned the Republican Governor of the state, Kristi Noem, from their reservations has caused a stir. The first tribal council to vote for the ban was the Pine Ridge Reservation, in early 2024.
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Nuclear tests and toxic waste on Indian reservations. The film ‘Oppenheimer’ doesn’t tell it right
Since the development of nuclear power in the mid-20th century, Native American reservations have been subjected to thousands of tons of toxic nuclear waste, with dangerous consequences for health, the environment and tribal sovereignty. The disproportionate concentration of nuclear waste on Native lands is no coincidence. On the contrary, it reflects a targeted effort by…
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Secret medical experiments on Native people in Canada: a lawsuit to prove it still happens today
Is history repeating itself? A class-action lawsuit, certified in early February 2024 by the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, Canada, revives the painful history of a government conducting medical experiments on indigenous peoples and the persistent discrimination they continue to face in the country’s health care system. But let us take a step back together.
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Native American voting discrimination in US elections
It is since 1965, with the Voting Rights Act signed by US President Lyndon Johnson, that Native Americans have been granted the full right to vote. But it has never been easy for them to vote. Today, Native people say they still face barriers to casting their vote. Let us see why.
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Biden chiede scusa ai Nativi Americani: i commenti (negativi) e i retroscena
“Non avrei mai immaginato in un milione di anni che una cosa del genere potesse accadere”, ha dichiarato commossa al Time il Segretario degli Interni statunitense Deb Haaland, membro della tribù Pueblo. E se lo dice lei, possiamo credere che l’annuncio delle scuse di Biden fatte il 25 ottobre, pubblicato sul sito della Casa Bianca…
Nativi Americani ieri e oggi 