Indigenous Peoples

Zowie Banteah Cultural Center hosts documentary screening

Zowie Banteah Cultural Center hosts documentary screening

The documentary “Ohero:kon - Under the Husk: A Native American Rite of Passage,” which was shown on Nov. 28 by the Office of Community and Belonging and the Zowie Banteah Cultural Center, follows two young Mohawk girls, Kaienkwinehtha and Kasennakohe, as they complete their traditional passage rites ceremony and become Mohawk women. The pair live “in the Mohawk Community of Akwesasne,” which is located on what came to be known the U.S. and Canada border. The ceremony takes place over the course of four years and, as the film distributor Vision Maker Media said, “Challenges [the girls] spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically. It shapes the women they become.”

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Activists across Latin America organize to protect water resources

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Activists across Latin America organize to protect water resources

Climate change has been at the forefront of international discussion with the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place this November. An event on Thursday, Nov. 10, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst discussed the social movements taking place in Latin America in support of the climate. The panel discussion, titled “A Blue Tide Rising in Latin America?” was held by the Political Economy Research Institute, and focused on the grassroots movements based on Indigenous peoples’ involvement to make a greener Latin America.

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