Genocide

Making Genocide Real for Students

Toni Tsatoke

10/29/15

Some days I leave my classroom unsure that what I have taught has any real effect on my students, but then there are days like today....

Conservative Icon Ayn Rand Said 'Savages' Had No Right to Land

Simon Moya-Smith

10/16/15

Native Americans did not have a right to their ancestral homeland, and white people were justified in committing genocide against them, Ayn Rand, the Russian-born conservative hero...

An Indigenous Peoples’ Day Sunrise Ceremony at Alcatraz Island

Nanette Deetz

10/14/15

A Sunrise Ceremony was held on Indigenous Peoples’ Day at Alcatraz Island to celebrate “523 years of indigenous resistance, honor our ancestors and future generations,” according t...

Pope Francis and When Genocide Isn't Genocide

Alex Jacobs

10/4/15

The Pope came to the New World but his spin doctors say he doesn’t have to rescind those outdated, lethal and racist Papal Bulls that led to the enslavement of New World inhabitants, since all subsequent Papal Bulls rescinded the previous ones....

Genocide Trial for Guatemalan President in 2016; Behind Closed Doors

Rick Kearns

9/15/15

The newest trial for former Guatemalan President Jose Efrain Rios Montt will be held in January 2016 and, due to the defendant’s dementia, will be held behind closed doors and will...

Hijacking Genocide: An Open Letter

Steve Russell

9/8/15

This column goes out to Chiitaanibah Johnson, who I don’t know but I feel like I know....

They’re Called Reservations, Not Preservations

Micah Armstrong

8/11/15

For quite some time I have told people, “They’re called reservations for a reason. If the government had any intention of helping our people and lands, they’d be called preservations....

Genocide Trial of Former Guatemalan President Suspended Again

Rick Kearns

7/28/15

Former Guatemalan President Jose Efrain Rios Montt may not have to stand trial for genocide and crimes against humanity for the massacre of Maya Ixil people due to his dementia and...