Now, with four decades of filmmaking under her belt, the indigenous singer, artist, activist, and storyteller of Abenaki descent has seen her fair share of indigenous struggle, "Poverty, hurt… all terrible stuff".
Northeast India is an ethnically distinct and geographically isolated part of the country characterised by a longstanding civil insurgent struggle, poverty and unemployment.
After 1949, Communist China's first 30 years were engulfed in revolutionary fervor, internal power struggles and poverty.
We perhaps talk too easily about "struggling artists"; but there is no denying that Clare's struggles with poverty were all-encompassing and lifelong.
Exhausted by endless recession, disgusted with the politicians, unable to imagine a future, people retreat into private struggles with poverty and depression.
By the 1930s, Eatonville emerged as a model of black self-sufficiency, despite its continuing struggles with poverty, illiteracy and the hostility of the segregated world around it.
Violence in the Central African Republic and the world's newest country, South Sudan, is a sobering reminder of its past, and the familiar litany of struggles -- poverty, hunger, and AIDS -- remains.
Despite the characters' struggles with poverty and class, von Stroheim followed the naturalist technique of portraying characters whose lives are driven by fate and their inner nature.
The book details his struggles with poverty, drugs, fame, heartbreak and depression, and includes stories of his rise to fame and commentaries on past controversies.
Isatou's family struggles against poverty and both parents are living with HIV.
