For centuries, colonial powers have used starvation as a tool to control Indigenous populations and take over their land and wealth. A look back at two historic examples on two different continents.
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Ukrainians are safeguarding their language and cultural identity in the face of Russian attempts to erase it.
Canada doesn’t support the case before the International Court of Justice that Israel is guilty of genocide in its war against Gaza. That’s contrary to its stance on other cases of genocide.
Visiting Indigenous people on their land was a step in the right direction, but the pope’s visit was full of tensions over both what was said and what wasn’t.
Residential school denialism is the rejection or misrepresentation of basic facts about residential schools to undermine truth and reconciliation efforts.
China says it is helping the Uyghurs, but its actions meet the threshold of cultural genocide: ‘a premeditated, calculated, systematic, malicious crime authorised by the state’s political leaders’.
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PhD Candidate, Department of Government and International Relations, Sessional Teacher and Student Writing Fellow, University of Sydney
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Cherokee Nation citizen, Professor of Critical Indigenous Studies and English, University of British Columbia
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