NATIVES
A Canadian Branch of Anonymous Is Standing Up for Anti-Fracking Protesters
They're particularly mad about an RCMP officer who, at the protest, said: "Crown land belongs to the government, not to fucking Natives."
Human Safari
Tourists on India's Andaman Islands are taken by the busload to stare at the Jarawa tribe.
Tidbits
According to the most recent Equal Opportunity Survey by the Defense Manpower Data Center, there are 22,864 Native Americans in the armed forces. That’s two percent of the total number of soldiers. Most Natives (39 percent) are in the Navy. Only 1...
Snow Place Like Home
I've just finished my education. I have a master of technology, with computers as my major. I've broadened it with business administration and law.
Arctic Birdie
Kulturkraft is a school project that has been initiated to make Swedish, Saami and Finnish culture meet without people cussing at each other. As a part of this project one class of Saami kids are making contributions to an art exhibition that will open...
Vice Fashion - Saami Boarding School
In 1964 the board of education decided it was time to right some wrongs—like forcing kids to live in weird, exotic tents instead of houses and giving them shitty teachers—and built modern dormitories for Saami students whose parents lived far away.
Teaching The Teachers
The first ever church built in Gällivare was the Lapp Church. They collected one penny of every person in Sweden and built it in 1747. It was a part of the christening of the Saami.
Staring At The Sea
If you live on Barra, the only jobs here are fishing or crofting (farming). I started fishing here when I was 14 and since then I’ve made thousands of pounds and become known as the best fisherman on the island.
No More Firewater
I was addicted to alcohol. I’ve been to five treatments. I did meth too. That doesn’t get you anywhere. It takes everything away from you. Your kids, your house… your entire life. It’s a bad drug. It’s taking over Native communities lately.
Herd And Destroy
Up here it's all about metal. You can see for yourself, as soon as a band strays ever so slightly from that monotonous, fast drumming, as soon as they become the least bit inventive, the floor clears at live shows.
Tidbits
They look like baby bird abortions, but these little rock-clinging squidgy guys oooked in garlic butter and seasoned with lemon and pepper is the second most delicious snack on the island after the black pudding.