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The Falling Sky (Pt.1)
The book so far has been a very interesting read. I appreciate engaging in environmentalism from an indigenous lens and it was something I was personally very curious about going into this course. With Kopenawa’s descriptions of how “white people” have come in and ignorantly destroyed Yanomami’s surrounding natural life, I think we have come…
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“Our Word is Our Weapon” (Pt.1)
“Our Word is Our Weapon” by Subcomandante Marcos differs from many readings as it is more so a political manifesto as it takes readers on a thought-provoking journey through the struggles, aspirations, and ideologies of the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico. From the very beginning, Marcos pulls back the curtain on the harsh realities faced…