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Marcela’s Weekly Digest: 11th October 2022

In this week's news we saw Canada calling out the United States for being awful to immigrants, Joe Biden pretending to care about people in prison for marijuana possession, Colorado running out of water and two Indigenous women being elected to the Brazilian congress.

Marcela Onyango & Illustration: Naomi Gennery

We are Indigenous enough

On preserving Indigenous identity and cultural survival within diasporic realities

Samara Almonte & Illustration: Paola De La Cruz

Ugandan percussionists are keeping 700 year old traditions alive

The Nakibembe Xylophone troupe on memory, ancestry and the transportive power of music

Erin Cobby

Beating transnationals and building community resilience in Puebla, Mexico

A look into the resistance of the Indigenous Totonaco communities from the Sierra Norte of Puebla against transnational mining, fracking and hydroelectric projects, and how they are building new forms of community resilience following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Anonymous

The colonial roots of Indigenous tourism in Asia

A guest post from Kontinentalist, the platform using creative storytelling, data visualisation and empathy to cut through the noise around Asia’s key topics.

Zafirah Zein, Sabrina Yazid & Illustration: Munirah

Indigenous communities in Mexico are confronting narcos and mining by building autonomy

A spotlight on the Indigenous and Afro-descendent communities in the mountains of Guerro, Mexico who have organised to defend their territories against violence and extractivism

Anonymous

Indigenising my relationship to the kitchen

Empowerment through reconnecting to women in my family

Samara Almonte & Illustration: Paola De La Cruz

The Struggle of Margarita Pineda and the Lenca Community in La Paz, Honduras

How the Lenca Indigenous community is struggling to preserve their territories and their rights to autonomy and self determination against transnational mega-projects.

Thumy Phan & Illustration: Anonymous