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Guatemalan refugees return to Guatemala from Mexico. Most fled to escape the military's scorched earth tactics in the 1980s.

The women of Mexico still fight colonial oppression.

An Ixíl woman, who lost everything when her family fled to Mexico from the military in Guatemala, returns home to her village in Guatemala ready to rebuild.

The Iximché Language Center is a project that created a language school in Chimaltenango. The program offers instruction in either Spanish, Caqchiquel, or Quiche.

Many quechua people are being moved so that oil companies can drill.

The Kuna have demarcated their territory. Colonizers recently destroyed a house within Kuna territory.

400 armed militants attack and kill local Indians.

SAIIC interviews Arturo Pimentel, the General Coordinator of the Binational Mixtec and Zapotec Front, which is based in California and Mexico. The meeting established Zapotec and Mixtec demands for basic infrastructure from the Mexican government as…

Snow prevents Indian land from being seized long enough for the land to become a national park.

Frustrated Native Hawaiians march in 1993 to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the US overthrow of the Hawaiian queen. Native Hawaiians are becoming more in favor of Hawaiian sovereignty.

Three indians elected the the ANC help give a voice to the 600,000 Indians of Colombia.

The Colombian state is planning to build roads, hydroelectric facilites, ports, and a land bridge to compete with the Panama Canal in the largely untouched rainforest of El Choco. The plan would displace 110,000 indigenous people and the Embera,…