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- Hardenburg, Walter Ernest. Putumayo, the Devil's Paradise: Travels in the Peruvian Andes an Account of the Atrocities Committed upon the Indians Therein. T. Fisher Unwin, 1912. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45204/45204-h/45204-h.htm#Footnote_123_123
This book was written by Walter Hardenburg during his travels to the Putumayo region during the rubber boom era.
- Moloney, Anastasia. “Indigenous Tribes Launch Emergency Motion to Protect 80% of Amazon Rainforest.” Global Citizen, 30 Aug. 2021. https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/indigenous-amazon-iucn/
This article discusses how Amazon tribes have filed a formal motion to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in efforts to protect 80 percent of the Amazon by 2025.
- Native Youth Sexual Health Network and Women’s Earth Alliance. Violence on the Land, Violence on Our Bodies: Building an Indigenous Response to Environmental Violence. 2014. http://landbodydefense.org/uploads/files/VLVBReportToolkit2016.pdf.This guide was written by Indigenous women and youth who draw connections between environmental harm, cultural disintegration, and gender-based violence to produce a new framework.
- OAS. Situation of Human Rights of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Pan-Amazon Region, OAS, 29 Sept. 2019. https://oas.org/en/IACHR/reports/IA.asp?Year=2019 .
This Inter-American Commission report covers the legal frameworks and public policies that affect Indigenous people of the Amazon Basin.
- Trask, Haunani Kay. “The Color of Violence.” Social Justice 31, No. 4 (2004): 8–16.
This article offers a groundbreaking theory of violence against Indigenous people from the perspective of U.S. colonialism in Hawaii.
- Tuhiwai Smith, Linda. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2021.
A warning against the history of imperialistic research, this book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in researching Indigenous livelihoods and cultures in a decolonial way.
- “Uncontacted Tribe under Threat after Senator’s Secret Plot to Open up Their Territory.” Survival International, 27 Jan. 2021. https://www.survivalinternational.org/news/12523
This website documents how current land protections in Brazil are being revoked by the government to open up possibilities for more industrial extraction projects.
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