Solidarity in cyberspace: Indigenous peoples online

From: NACLA Report on the Americas | Date: March 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

REPORT ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Have new electronic technologies fulfilled the promise they once seemed to hold for indigenous peoples? The answers are yes, and no.

"A future with traditions," was the slogan the indigenous movement popularized during the 1992 Quincentennial, the 500th anniversary of Europe's discovery of the Americas. The slogan was a sign that even as indigenous peoples were turning to tradition, to the past, as a means of "re/membering" themselves as viable cultures and peoples, they were also looking to information technology--computers, e-mail and then-embryonic forms ...

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