Better Test Scores for Indigenous Students in Mexico

Rick Kearns
October 26, 2011
Indigenous elementary school students in Mexico have improved their test scores in Math and Spanish again this year according to results from a national comprehensive exam, and the...

Tlaxcala Tribe of Mexico Parody Revelry of Spanish Conquistadors … in Brooklyn

ICTMN Staff
July 05, 2011
As reported recently in the New York Times , an increasing number of Hispanic Americans are identifying themselves as Indians, tracing their roots back to the Mexico that existed b...

Fair-Trade Network Empowers 'Mexadelphians'

ICTMN Staff
May 12, 2011
Photo by Harvey Finkle The indigenous people of San Mateo Ozolco, a small town in the state of Puebla, Mexico tend to fields of blue corn near an active volcano for a meager $7 a d...

Language at Risk of Dying Out – the Last Two Speakers Aren't Talking

Jo Tuckman
May 05, 2011
Reprinted with permission from The Guardian.co.uk The language of Ayapaneco has been spoken in the land now known as Mexico for centuries...
Steve Russell

A Requiem Rant for the Borderlands

When I was consulting Prof. Google about Mexico earlier today, I was shocked that a number of travel sites take the line that "you are perfectly safe as long as you are not involved in drugs."...

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May 22, 2011

Mexico Through the Centuries in Many Mexicos Exhibit

Lee Allen
February 21, 2011
Just about everyone is aware of celebrations held in this country on Independence Day, or similar fetes in France on Bastille Day, and in Mexico for Cinco de Mayo...

Unsolved Aboriginal Murders Protested for 20th Year in B.C.

Valerie Taliman
February 14, 2011
VANCOUVER—For 20 years now on Valentine’s Day, the families of murdered and missing Native women have marched to police headquarters through the streets of the Downtown Eastside (D...

Ruiz, Champion of Mayan Rights, Dies at 86

ICTMN Staff
January 25, 2011
Bishop Samuel Ruiz lectures on human rights at the University of Alberta, Canada, in 2004...

Canada’s Missing Women: Sad Echoes of Mexico

ICTMN Staff
December 09, 2010
Canada’s “Highway of Tears” flows between the cities of Prince George to Prince Rupert in British Columbia...

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