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							<title>Mayan Beekeeper Leydy Pech Awarded &#8216;Green Nobel Prize&#8217; for Environmental Activism</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2020 17:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Leydy Pech is a 55-year-old Mayan beekeeper from the state of Campeche in Mexico&#8217;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 activists. She was one of six recipients which included Nemonte Nenquimo, an Indigenous Waorani woman]]></description>
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							<title>7 Positive Representations of Indigenous Communities We’re Proud of</title>
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															<description><![CDATA[&#160; 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 front and center, their work is getting international attention. But these women are just two]]></description>
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							<title>11 Indigenous Latina Heroines You Should Know</title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2018 20:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[&#160; Yesterday was Columbus Day, a national federal holiday (October 8), which is meant to celebrate Christopher Columbus&#8217;s &#8220;discovery&#8221; of America on October 12, 1492. Instead of cosigning on a lie, and the blatant disrespect of the indigenous community, here at HipLatina we prefer to celebrate Indigenous People&#8217;s Day instead. Columbus Day might have been]]></description>
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