After several dramatic protest confrontations with the U.S. government, by the mid-1970s radical Native American sovereignty activists had begun to regularly travel to Europe to build alliances in order to pressure the United States government from the outside to adopt a policy of Indian sovereignty. György Tóth explores friendship & solidarity in these transatlantic alliances, and shows how breaking down stereotypes & building strong interpersonal relationships was fundamental to the success of the movement.
Tag: indigenous rights
Resistant Women: Indigenous Women Remember El Salvador’s 1932 Insurrection
Sierra Becerra on the eighty-three year anniversary of the 1932 insurrection in El Salvador, the largest in Latin America during the Great Depression.