OPEN STACKS | #22 Indigenous Peoples' Day: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Ramesh Srinivasan & Andy Carter
This week on Open Stacks, we celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day. First, we hear from Ramesh Srinivasan on Whose Global Village, as he discusses ways that new technologies can benefit or subject indigenous communities around the world. Then, an interview with activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States and All the Real Indians Died Off and Twenty Other Myths about Native Americans. Then, Virgilio Vicente and Andy Carter discussing Margarito's Forest, the story of one Mayan man whose conservation efforts continue to shape his village of Saq Ja'.
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