President Evo Morales, Bolivia And Bolivia

Cesar Chavez was born in Yuma, Arizona to a middle-class family. Cesar’s family owned there land and also ran a business. When the depression hit in the1930's, the young Cesar Chavez and his family left to find work in California as farm

With globalization and colonization taking over almost the entire known world, native tribes who are indigenous to their lands are losing control of the lands that their people have lived in for ages to the hands of foreign colonizers who claim the land as their own. Now, indigenous people all around the world are struggling to reclaim the lands and rights that were taken away from them through non-violent social relations with national governments and large corporations. Anthropologists have recorded how indigenous people across the globe attempt to create relations with national governments to reclaim rights and lands that they once had before the colonization of their ancestral homeland.

Alternatively, Chavez was born in Yuma, in the state of California. Likewise, Chavez moved to California with his parents to work in the fields. As Chavez, experienced the disturbing conditions that he and his fellow farm pickers encountered, he knew that he will soon devote his life in changing, the horrible migrant camps, untrustworthy labor contractors, bitter racism and insufficient wages.

I would like to present three exceptional venezuelan scientists who impacted the lives of millions of people in a generous way around the world and also in the United States. Humberto Fernandez-Moran, Baruj Benacerraf, and Jacinto Convit were scientists who significantly changed and contributed to advances in science and medicine in different but equally meaningful ways. Each made his mark within the scientific community in ways that benefited many people around the world, and for these reasons, each was recognized with honors, including Nobel prizes for Benacerraf and Convit.

The period before the Columbian fall is difficult to understand in terms of American ethnicity and political diversity. 50 ethnic groups occupied the American land north of the Rio Grande with most of them being affiliated with the Indians. Politically, the indigenous groups did not have any formal type of governance but leaders rose during a necessity (Taylor, 102). Natives started campaigning for internal expansionism and the establishment of formal intuitions of governance towards the end of the 17th and during the 18th century. Colonial powers that created these experiences had a significant influence on cultural change.

Indigenous are tribal people who identify themselves as indigenous people. They inhabited a region in a country, generations to generations, which is surrounded by national resources. Their social, cultural and economic conditions distinguish them from countrywide communities, and their customs or traditions, special laws or policy are governed by their own set of regulations, entirely or partly. They are determined to maintain and further develop their identity and distinct social, economic, cultural and political institutions as distinct peoples and community, (“UNITED NATIONS PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS,” 2008, p. 7-9).

When the Europeans first arrived in Latin America, they didn’t realize the immensity of their actions. As history has proven, the Europeans have imposed many things on the Latin American territory have had a long, devastating effect on the indigenous people. In the centuries after 1492, Europeans would control much of South America and impose a foreign culture upon the already established civilizations that existed before their arrival. These imposed ideas left the continent weak and resulted in the loss of culture, the dependence on European countries, and a long standing ethnic tension between natives and settlers which is evident even to this day. The indigenous people of South America, which

The injustice surrounding the Indigenous populations in Mexico and Central America began with the Spanish colonies in the sixteenth century, and the struggle for their land and constitution rights has been an ongoing battle for hundreds of years. The indigenous people take up a large part of the population in Mexico and Central America. (See Table 1; Graph 1 below). Indigenous people make up of over 16 percent of the Mexican population, and over 66 percent of the population is indigenous in Guatemala. The historical reality of the indigenous peoples in Central America has been one poverty, eviction from their land, political violence and mistreatment at the hands of

In the Spanish, French, and European colonization of North and South America, it either benefited or ravaged tribal societies and their peoples. Through the 16th-19th centuries, the Native Americans populations declined in the following ways: epidemic diseases brought from Europe; violence and warfare. During the prospect of exploration, Thomas Jefferson viewed American Indians as people with the possibly of “Enlightenment” and from a political standpoint either they were enemies of war or allies in peace. While the United States had set a precedent to explore new lands in its short history, native peoples’ who had inherited lands through generations of migration, tribe exploration, and hunting and gathering were now in jeopardy forcefully or ceding their lands through new American policies. As stated by Thomas Jefferson, “The Indian tribes residing within the limits of the United States, have, for a considerable time, been growing more and more uneasy at the constant diminution of the territory they occupy, although effected by their own voluntary sales” [Present in the Past, 79].

Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto questions the governance of the First Nation politicians. In this second edition, Taiaiake Alfred discusses the importance of traditional Indigenous forms of governance. He calls out the Indigenous politicians on turning their backs towards their sacred traditions and instead using a western framework. He urges the Indigenous community to move beyond the pain, loss, and colonization and move forward to creating a different future.

The notation of what is a nation has changed greatly over time in Latin America. Two groups that exemplifies that are the asian and indigenous population of Latin America. Both groups were categorized differently throughout time and from each other. Countries in Latin America brought the asian population as labor. This resulted in the asian workers being classified as solely foreign labor not a part of the nation. Later the asian population will be seen more as an outside group than true members of the country causing great tension between them and the “natives”. Most recently, the population has been more accepted due to their “mother country” becoming a world power. Similarly, the indigenous population notation of what a nation is has

Throughout the course of global and American history, the existence of indigenous peoples has been challenged and denied by colonialist powers, driven by the search for more resources – whether that may be land, gold, spices, or oil. As the interactions between indigenous peoples and colonizing nations continued, a complex history was woven, setting the scene for a complicated present in which the Native American tribe is not a state, nor an equal sovereign nation, but something else. The numerous court cases, treaties, and laws over the years have created an entity which resides outside the simple federalist structure of the United States of America and is yet irreversibly

The article I chose to read regarding Mexico’s head of government talked about how under Enrique Nieto Pena’s control, his party(The PRI) was responsible for numerous scandals involving graft and corruption. When he first got elected, the nation of Mexico saw drastic declines in homicide rates and unexplained disappearances of large groups of people such as the “Ayotzinapa 43 case”, in which 43 student teachers vanished without a trace, leading people to think they were killed. However, in the next 2 years homicide cases suddenly rose up which caused a lot of controversy leading people to suspect some sort of change to the police force system was present. Enrique was subject to a lot of criticism because he would use members of the PRI for his own interests.

140). Connell even describes these works as “Northern Theory written in the South” (Connell, 2007, pg. 140). This statement is too harsh of a critique of the work of Latin American scholars who use some northern methods in their work. For example, Alcida Rita Ramos (1998) wrote Indigenism: Ethnic Politics in Brazil, by actively engaging indigenous people, and uses their experience to critique the adoption of indigenous culture by the Brazilian government as a black face of sorts, in which the Brazilian government would throw out indigenous imagery in order to appeal to tourists, but would then take over and destroy indigenous lands for mining, ranching, oil and timber purposes, and ignore the concerns of Indigenous groups (Ramos, 1998). Ramos uses ethnographic methods to capture the issues confronting indigenous groups such as the Yanomamo, yet she does not ignore the role that northern institutions and structures had in creating the problems the Yanomamo faced (Ramos, 1998). Ramos address the racism and classism that shaped the Brazilian government into what it is today, and critiques the paternalistic attitude toward Indigenous groups that the government has set forth (Ramos,

Nikola Tesla was born in a small town called Smiljan, in what is now Croatia, during a lightning storm. Some would say that this would prove significant later in his life. He grew up the son of a Serbian Orthodox Reverend, and was one of five children. He was an avid reader, and would often memorize entire books.