Tag: indigenous people

The Making of an Indigenous Community and the Limits of Community: Class Differentiation and Social Ties in Southern Chile

Posted on by CASAS

Carlos Bolomey Córdova, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Rural Sociology. Abstract: This article seeks to challenge essentialist comprehensions of rural Indigenous communities through examining one particular Mapuche community who were the recipients of a land subsidy. Mapuche people are the largest Indigenous group in Chile. Since the 1990s, the Chilean government, responding to…

Resisting in the mountains in Mexico: using territory and self-determination to resist COVID-19

Posted on by Tania Eulalia Martinez Cruz

Mexico is a diverse country and as such, each region is coping with COVID19 in different ways with the resources they have. Today, I will describe the coping mechanisms of my hometown, Tamazulapam Mixe, a little indigenous community located in the mountains of “Sierra Norte” in Oaxaca, Mexico. Many people know us as ‘the never…