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Mayan Beekeeper Leydy Pech Awarded ‘Green Nobel Prize’ for Environmental Activism

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by Virginia Isaad05289
Leydy Pech is a 55-year-old Mayan beekeeper from the state of Campeche in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula who was honored this year with the Goldman Environmental Prize — known as the Green Nobel Prize — which is given to grassroots environmental...
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7 Positive Representations of Indigenous Communities We’re Proud of

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by Virginia Isaad06712
  The indigenous community has historically been overlooked and dehumanized but now more than ever they are getting the attention and respect they deserve. With icons like Yalitza Aparicio and activists like Amazonian female Chief Nazaré bringing the indigenous community...
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Culture

11 Indigenous Latina Heroines You Should Know

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by HipLatina07908
  Yesterday was Columbus Day, a national federal holiday (October 8), which is meant to celebrate Christopher Columbus’s “discovery” of America on October 12, 1492. Instead of cosigning on a lie, and the blatant disrespect of the indigenous community, here...
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