The food crisis is doubtlessly the most dramatic symptom of global economic refraction. It does not rival the quantity of dollars in this field of losses, but the tens of the millions of human menaced existences hunger death and the millions of these, which run before the hunger as an immigrants for a better life to unknown and unfriendly world. The defeat of the hunger still depends on the present level of the production of the food. The problem is especially important for contemporary Africa.
The present text serves as an introduction to RIAS Vol. 12, Spring–Summer № 1 /2019, dedicated to Indigenous social movements in the Americas. It outlines the major areas of interest of the Contributors, explaining ways in which the issue explores selected cases of Indigenous resistance to oppressive forms of environmental, socio-economic, linguistic, and cultural colonialism. Looking at both multi-tribal and single-tribal contexts, the authors look at the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, the novels of Lakota/Anishinaabe writer Frances Washburn, the Two-Spirit movement in the U.S., and the Indigenous food sovereignty movement in the U.S. and Peru as sites of creative forms of decolonizing resistance, and analyze the material, discursive, and cultural strategies employed by the Indigenous activists, writers, and farmers involved.
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