Archaeologists Uncover Hundreds of Bones in Unusual Aztec Burial in Mexico

ICTMN Staff
August 10, 2012
The remains of a young woman were found surrounded by 1,789 human bones in Mexico City’s Templo Mayor—a find that is the first of its kind in the Aztec culture according to researc...

Reopening Silver Mine Could Save Town, But Destroy the Sacred Site of the Huicholes

Irina Zhorov
August 07, 2012
The lands that comprise the Wirikuta Reserve in the San Luis de Potosí state of Mexico are full of covetable wonders...

Indigenous Nationalities and the Mestizo Dilemma

Duane Champagne
July 24, 2012
Mestizo. Métis . Mixed bloods. Though clearly different, all these terms are used to racially classify people with Indian ancestry...

Exceptionally Engineered Drug-Smuggling Tunnel Discovered Beneath U.S.-Mexico Border

ICTMN Staff
July 13, 2012
The 57-foot vertical shaft entrance to the tunnel on the U.S. side (Drug Enforcement Administration) U.S...

Crossing U.S.-Mexico Border Can Be Deadly

Anne Minard
May 30, 2012
The homemade videos are damning: A man on the ground, possibly handcuffed, begs for his life as he’s beaten by a dozen U.S. Border Patrol officers...

California School District Bans Mexican Epithets for Indigenous People

ICTMN Staff
May 29, 2012
“No me llames oaxaquita,” or “Don’t call me little Oaxacan,” is the title of an anti-bullying campaign that Oxnard School District in southern California Ventura County, has adopte...
Devon G. Peña

Learning Peacefulness From the Zapotecas

I have for some time been analyzing the “ecology of fear” and the climate of hatred it generates to feed the growing menace of presumably random acts of violence in Arizona such as last year’s shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords....

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May 04, 2012

Micah True’s Death May Have Ripple Effect for Rarámuri Indians

ICTMN Staff
April 06, 2012
The cause of death for Micha True , the ultrarunner who's body was found last Saturday along a mountain stream in a remote part of the Gila Wilderness, is still uncertain...

Amnesty International Report Cites Human Rights Violations Along US-Mexico Border

ICTMN Staff
March 28, 2012
Amnesty International recently released a report titled, " In Hostile Terrain: Human Rights Violations in Immigration Enforcement in the U.S...

See the Fantastic Vochol, a Huichol-Beaded Volkswagen

ICTMN Staff
March 25, 2012
The old Volkswagen Beetle is iconic in Mexico, its little dome ubiquitous in thousands of vehicles zipping around major cities and chugging along country roads...

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