"If the island sinks, I will sink with it," Delfino Davies says, his smile unwavering. But the silence that surrounds him on Gardi Sugdub, his ancestral home, speaks volumes. "Before, you could hear children shouting… music everywhere, neighbors arguing," he recalls. "But now all the sounds have gone." His community, the Guna, are the first in Panama to be displaced by the … [Read more...] about ‘We left pieces of our life behind’: Indigenous group flees drowning island
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Proud Aboriginal Man Travels 2,000 Miles To Watch His Granddaughter Graduate
Graduation ceremonies are often a family affair, but few stories resonate as deeply as that of Gali Yalkarriwuy Gurruwiwi, an Aboriginal elder from Australia. In 2016, Gali traveled nearly 2,000 miles from the remote island of Galiwin’ku, part of the north-east Arnhem Land, to Healesville, Victoria, to attend his granddaughter Sasha's graduation from Worawa Aboriginal College. … [Read more...] about Proud Aboriginal Man Travels 2,000 Miles To Watch His Granddaughter Graduate