The Ballad of Ira Hayes is a song written by Peter La Farge in honor of Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who served in the US Marines during World War II. You can read more about him at wikipedia. The footages included in this video appear to have been taken from the movie, Flags of Our Fathers which stars Adam Beach, the Ojibwa actor we blogged about a year ago.
Entries Tagged 'Indigenous World' ↓
The Ballad of Ira Hayes
May 17th, 2008 — Indigenous World
Happy Easter From My Hometown — Not
March 22nd, 2008 — Indigenous World, Sagada
This photo is actually from Sagada in Dagestan, Russia. We mentioned Sagada, Dagestan in an earlier post (What? Sagada is Not Unique?) that a reader didn’t like hehe. Photo credit: tsumada.ru
In the Sweet By and By
March 17th, 2008 — Indigenous World
Performed by our Manobo brothers from Mindanao. Uploaded by an e-Mankayan based in Canada. Viewed by all of us to start our week in a prayerful mood. Don’t you just love the internets?
The Sumilao Farmers’ March for Justice
December 13th, 2007 — Activism, Indigenous World, National Affairs
Is there hope for this country? Of course, but you won’t find it in our “leaders” or in our politicians.
Instead, you will find it in ordinary people like the Higaonon farmers of Sumilao, Bukidnon who walked (and are walking) from Mindanao to Manila.
Why are they doing this? Are they crazy? Of course not. They are doing this historic walk to ask the government to give them titles to their land. Under the agrarian reform law, this land should have been awarded to them years ago.
Quote of the Day: Vicky Tauli-Corpuz
August 13th, 2007 — Activism, Igorot Achievers, Indigenous World, Outside Cordi
Vicky Tauli Corpuz, chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples, on how multinational companies are blocking the passage of a U.N. document that would recognize the rights of indigenous peoples:
“[These firms] were against the declaration because they would like [to keep] their business interests in countries where indigenous peoples wanted to assert sovereign rights on their territories. They were afraid that the declaration would stop them from extracting the resources in indigenous peoples’ communities,” she said.
