Migration is Beautiful

Migration is Beautiful symbolizes a commitment from the creative community to see, show, and celebrate the humanity of the migrant story. See on migrationisbeautiful.com

“Fences and borders can’t stop the flow of rivers, migration of butterflies, or the movement of people, and won’t stop the spirit of freedom.”
– Tania Willard, Indigenous Secwepemc artist

 

Aaron Huey: America’s native prisoners of war | Video on TED.com

Aaron Huey’s effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people — appalling, and largely ignored — compelled him to refocus.

 

http://modernsmile.com/about/testimonials/ Community Village‘s insight:

In Clear Lake county California there were Native Americans in a row of old run down houses. As a kid I would look at those houses from the back seat as my parents drove by them. They never explained who those people were and I never thought to ask :/

This video is a sort of condensed version of the documentary movie 500 Nations – but with modern photographs.

See on www.ted.com