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Why aren’t we more upset about racism against Native Americans?

Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner (Kansas) and Randall S. Bate (Florida A&M): International and Domestic Law Dimensions of Climate Justice for Arctic Indigenous Peoples. Esma Mneina (Ottawa): Indigenous Resistance in Latin America a Dynamic Part of the Globalization Process: The Case of Guatemala. Thomas M. Antkowiak (Seattle): Rights, Resources, and Rhetoric: Indigenous Peoples and the Inter-American Court. Sebastien Grammond (Ottawa): Equally Recognized? The Indigenous Peoples of Newfoundland and Labrador. From Vanity Fair, the Last of Eden: On one of the last islands of intact rain forest in Brazil’s eastern Amazon, the Awa Indians face the seemingly inexorable eradication of their home; Alex Shoumatoff hits the forest trails with the most endangered tribe on earth, while photographer Sebastiao Salgado captures the Awa’s world. At last: Brazil begins long-awaited operation to save Earth’s most threatened tribe. Energy investing: Carol Smith on the indigenous rights bubble. Neither medicine man nor chief: David Martinez on the role of the "intellectual" in the American Indian Community. Andrew Woolford reviews Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life by James Daschuk. The missing women you don’t hear about: Lauren Chief Elk on how the media fails Indigenous communities. Tanyanika Samuels on reviving a fading language called Quechua: Former teacher and social worker Elva Ambia is trying to save a centuries-old language. Why aren't we more upset about racism against Native Americans? Leah Pickett wants to know. We must give the land back: Steven Salaita on how America’s brutality toward Native Americans continues today.