Yellow Bird Dancers Bring the Pow Wow to Bolivia

Sara Shahriari
September 03, 2011
Dance has a big place in Bolivian life ...

Indigenous Bolivians March Against Highway

Sara Shahriari
August 18, 2011
On August 15 several hundred people from lowland Bolivia began a 350 mile, month long march toward the government’s seat in La Paz to protest a highway that will cut through a larg...
Jerry Reynolds

Exposing 'a Model of Social Humiliation'

The Itika Guasu Investment Fund may have broken new ground in Bolivia and Latin America, and internationally. But the negotiation process exposed "a model of social humiliation" that still threatens impoverished Indigenous people wherever they press a valid claim to valuable property....

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August 03, 2011

Bolivia Withdraws from UN Treaty That Limits Chewing Coca Leaf

Sara Shahriari
July 08, 2011
Bolivia's President Evo Morales announced July 7 that he has withdrawn the Andean country from a United Nations treaty that bans chewing the coca leaf...

350 Indian Couples in Bolivia Wed in Mass Ceremony

ICTMN Staff
May 09, 2011
On May 7 at the colosseum in La Paz, Bolivia, about 350 couples were married upholding Indian customs and traditions...

The Best Bolivian Beauty Pageants Are About Indigenous Pride, Not Cheesecake

Sara Shahriari
May 23, 2011
On a cold night in mid-February the city of El Alto was reveling in one of Bolivia’s favorite pastimes: a beauty pageant...

Bolivia Moves to Give Mother Earth Same Rights as Humans

ICTMN Staff
April 14, 2011
For American Indians, First Nations, indigenous and aboriginal communities throughout the world the relationship with Mother Earth has always been strong...

Bolivia Looks to Land Redistribution

By Sara Shahriari
April 05, 2011
When flying over Bolivia’s highlands, the flat brown plains dotted by small farms seem endless...

Color, Earth, Andes: The Work of Bolivian Artist Roberto Mamani Mamani

Sara Shahriari
April 21, 2011
Roberto Mamani Mamani's bold, eye-catching paintings of brilliantly colored mountains, the Earth Mother Pachamama and indigenous Bolivians have made him one of Bolivia's best-known...

Bolivia’s President Says Chewing Coca Is an Indigenous Right

Sara Shahriari
February 16, 2011
Bolivian President Evo Morales has vowed that his country will continue to fight for international recognition of Bolivians' right to chew the coca leaf...

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