A leading United Nations human rights body has issued a report blasting the United States for its systematic abrogation of its treaties with Native Americans, stealing of reservation land, and the loss of billions of dollars of Native American money, among other things. It demanded that the United States grant American Indians and Native Hawai’ians the same basic protections under U.S. law that it grants to nonindigenous Americans.
On July 11th, 64-year-old Segundo Ortiz was displaced from his land along with 1,700 other indigenous Awá in a remote jungle region in the foothills of the Andes Mountains in southwestern Colombia.
A unique strain of corn is finally coming home to the Cowasuck Abenaki community in Vermont’s Connecticut River Valley after being gone for centuries. The Abenaki, who harvested this corn in the rich valleys of the Connectict River until the 1700s, have not cultivated the plant in 300 years.
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