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- Mayangna
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video collage from Arang dak (northern Nicaragua)
Arang dak is a small village in northern Nicaragua, near the border with Honduras, inhabited by members of the Mayangna indigenous community. Like many other indigenous villages, the people of Arang dak were violently forced to evacuate by the Sandinistas during the conflicts in that country in the 1980s. The Mayangna and Miskito fought the […]
video collage from Bahia Solano, Chocó, Colombia
Bahia Solano, is a coastal town in Chocó, a province or “department” of Colombia on the Pacific coast. The legal economy there relies heavily on fishing, but it is also part of one of many transportation routes in the cocaine trade. Chocó itself is historically the center of Afro-Colombian community. Many Africans escaped slavery and […]
- Moseten
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Artesanos Mosetenes, (Bolivian lowlands)
The following video stills are from a project initiated by the Mosetén people (el pueblo indígena Mosetén) in collaboration with Dr Anne Pisor, who has been working with the Mosetén for many years. The Mosetén are an indigenous group from the lowlands of Bolivia, with close historical connections with the neighboring Tsimane’, a pueblo indígena receiving more contemporary attention from anthropologists. The […]
- Haida
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Haida Artists of Old Masset
The traditional territories of the Haida people are in northwest British Columbia (Canada) and and southwest Alaska (USA), primarily centered on the islands of Haida Gwaii. Haida Gwaii once had numerous villages scattered around the islands, mostly at river mouths rich in food resources. Together these communities represented a powerful political and economic force with […]
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Portraits from Arang dak
Arang dak is a small village in northern Nicaragua, near the border with Honduras, inhabited by members of the Mayangna indigenous community. Like many other indigenous villages, the people of Arang dak were violently forced to evacuate by the Sandanistas during the conflicts in that country in the 1980s. The Mayangna and Miskito fought the […]
Photographs from Chocó
Colombia has over 10 million people who have been displaced internally due to the violence there, fueled by politics, the drug economy, and illegal gold mining with dozens of armed organizations fighting for control of lucrative territories: paramilitaries, guerrillas, and more straightforward drug cartels. That is more people than have been displaced during the recent […]
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Video: “Raven Always Sets Things Right”
In August 2016, the Yahgulaanaas/Janaas clan of the Haida Nation held an historic potlatch, “Raven Always Sets Things Right”. It was held to strip two of their clan cheifs/spokesmen – litl’xaydaga – of their names and positions because they had clandestinely collaborated with the Enbridge oil pipeline company against the explicit wishes of their clan […]
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Video stills and photos from a Haida potlatch
In August 2016, the Yahgulaanaas/Janaas clan of the Haida Nation held an historic potlatch, “Raven Always Sets Things Right”. It was held to strip two of their clan cheifs/spokesmen – litl’xaydaga – of their names and positions because they had clandestinely collaborated with the Enbridge oil pipeline company against the explicit wishes of their clan […]