By Ellie Duke SANTA FE, New Mexico — About five years ago, a set of posters appeared on an adobe wall on the corner of Old Pecos Trail and Camino Lejo — an intersection that sits at the gateway to Santa Fe’s famed Museum Hill and is situated on one of the city’s main arteries.…
Category Archive for: Indigenous Rights
By Robert Nott A Navajo artist who claimed he produced the pro-Palestinian graffiti that appeared Sunday on an east-side wall said his intention was to create a comparison between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the plight of Native Americans during periods of colonialism and conquest. The artist, who identified himself only as “Remy,” said in an…
Over 20 years ago I lived with a Palestinian family around September 11th. It was during dinners of traditional food that our laughter and sometimes tears would solidify our shared struggle as Indigenous People. That very table where we broke Taboon together was where I was told the story of Faris Odeh, a young teenage…
By Alleen Brown Remy, left, an artist from the Navajo Nation in Black Mesa, Ariz., and Wiyaka Eagleman, who is from the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, Hilton Kelley of Port Arthur, Texas are in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, April 27 for Saturday’s People’s Climate March. Photo: Lexey Swall/GRAIN for The Intercept Thousands of…