Sentence examples for indigenous consciousness from inspiring English sources

Indigenous consciousness and activism has been on the uptick in Canada since Idle No More first erupted at the end of 2012, and this year saw a lot of the movement's gains consolidated.

In episode 1 of The Score, we delve into Minnesota's Native American hip hop scene, where members of the Ojibwe tribe are fusing stories of struggle and indigenous consciousness to create a unique sound and a wholly modern native identity.

Recent laws governing the employment of laborers from Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines has led to an increased atmosphere among urban aborigines of xenophobia and encouraged the formulation of a pan-indigenous consciousness in the pursuit of political representation and protection.

The 1970s was a time of enormous change in the consciousness of Indigenous people.

"There has been nothing comparable in all my years here in terms of the growth of political consciousness among indigenous groups," said the Rev. Joaquín García, 70, a priest from Spain who arrived in Iquitos 41 years ago and directs the Center of Theological Studies of the Amazon, which focuses on indigenous issues.

The Yolngu world has come to heavily instruct how I (a white bloke of Irish ancestry who grew up with no consciousness of Indigenous Australia) have come to view and write about my country's hidden history – both its brutal and magical past.

Ms. Bello chucked her successful public relations company, In-Press Communications, and big-name clients (Mary Chapin Carpenter, the Chieftains, Sisters of Mercy) in exchange for a life devoted to bringing indigenous music to the world's consciousness.

The 2014 Indigenous Language Challenge tries to raise consciousness about minority languages by an icebucket-like Facebook campaign.

Since Ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic brew native to indigenous Amazonian communities, came into mainstream consciousness, the ancient ritual has often been stripped of its sacred tradition and painted as a recreational psychedelic.

"My hope, is that when the project is complete, it will serve to educate the nation and shift the collective consciousness toward recognizing our own indigenous communities," she adds on her current Kickstarter page.

The issue broke through into the public consciousness earlier this year, when a 10-year-old Indigenous girl suicided in remote Western Australia.