Ñamnagün Mew Ta Pünon: Memories of Mapuche Women Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared

BY CAROLINA ESPINOZA CARTES FOR INDIGENOUS DEBATES

The book Ñamnagün Mew Ta Pünon brings together the stories of mothers, daughters, sisters and wives of disappeared Mapuche people. Through intimate testimonies, it portrays the disappearances committed during the Chilean dictatorship as well as those perpetrated later in democratic times. The work is presented as a tool for visibility, denunciation and the construction of history from below from the perspective of those who have been marginalised. It’s purpose goes beyond mere documentation. It becomes part of the struggle for memory and human rights.

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Two Models, One Same Paradox: Critical Minerals and Indigenous Self-determination in Sweden and Colombia

BY LAURA GALVIS SANTACRUZ FOR INDIGENOUS DEBATES

In both countries, the international dispute over strategic resources impacts the territories. While redefining the boundaries of state power, this struggle places critical minerals at the centre of a longstanding tension: the expansion of national sovereignty in the face of the right to Indigenous self-determination.

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Cartography of Sumak Kawsay among the Ancestral Kichwa Peoples of Pastaza

70dfY PAUL ANDRÉS SABANDO MOSQUERA FOR INDIGENOUS DEBATES

In the Ecuadorian Amazon, sumak kawsay embodies the Kichwa peoples’ vision of life, which guides the management of their territories. When incorporated into modern cartography, this knowledge enriches their interpretation of their territory, facilitates community-based monitoring, and provides a foundation for Indigenous self-government. Kichwa cartography responds to the need for communities to express their own logic of territorial occupation and management, grounded in their worldview.

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Ecuador: Between Oligarchic Violence and Popular Majorities

BY MANUEL BAYÓN JIMÉNEZ FOR INDIGENOUS DEBATES

In the middle of the world lies a plurinational, anti-oligarchic bloc capable of changing the country’s course in a matter of weeks. Following his presidential victory, Daniel Noboa launched an unprecedented and violent police and military crackdown that included the killing of Indigenous people. Yet, just as it seemed the country was being engulfed by an oligarchic tide, the Ecuadorian people rejected both the call for a constitutional reform and the installation of United States military bases in the Galápagos Islands.

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Mapping living geographies and hope in Wallmapu

BY SARAH KELLY AND MONÉ VÁSQUEZ FOR INDIGENOUS DEBATES

Participatory mapping of local realities, which differs from official state maps, constitutes a method and a tool for collective resistance on Indigenous lands. These maps were made with Mapuche-Williche communities who exercised decisions about what data to include and how to communicate it. Maps were not the end product but a longer process of mapping territories. Mapuche communities collaborated with us to interpret these methods from within their forms of resistance, which involve legal, administrative, and territorial defense.

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