Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

February 25, 2023

Wounded Knee 50th Anniversary -- Pow-wow, Feasts and Honoring Warrior Women


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Chili Yazzie: In Search of Common Ground



IS THERE COMMON GROUND BETWEEN WESTERN THOUGHT DEVELOPMENT AND NATURE

By Chili Yazzie, Dine'
Shiprock, Navajo Nation
Censored News
Translated into French by Christine Prat

Western thought development takes massive quantities of elements from the earth to make things useful to mankind like electricity and petro. Western thought development includes non-energy economic and community development to create retail economy and infrastructure. Western thought is the bilagaana perspective. The concern with the ways of energy development is the destructiveness of it, the damage it does to the earth, the waste and pollution it leaves behind.