aerial view of the Amazon river

Current Issue

Indigenous Voices: Heritage, Challenges, Rights
Spring/Summer 2023 | Volume XXII, Number 3

Cover image by Eliel Sánchez

Table of Contents

Editor’s Letter →

by June Carolyn Erlick

Heritage

Blossoming Words

Blossoming Words

English + Español
Nawa Nika, or Nelita Rodríguez Campos (as she’s known in Spanish), gets up every morning very early to light the kitchen fire. Some fireflies still leave halos of light on the horizon and the stars are beginning to fade into morning.

Challenges

Rights

Book Reviews

A Review of Yerba Mate: The Drink that Shaped a Nation

A Review of Yerba Mate: The Drink that Shaped a Nation

On any given day, millions of South Americans—in the subcontinent and around the world—would engage in the same ritual. We heat water (making sure it doesn’t boil), prepare the mate, and sip, sip and sip. But where does that green, earthy, addictive, and for many outside South America exotic, drink comes from?

A Review of Escape a los Andes

A Review of Escape a los Andes

In Escape a los Andes, journalists Raúl Peñaranda and Robert Brockmann seek to reconstruct the efforts by Mauricio Hochschild, better known as Bolivia’s tin baron, to facilitate the massive entry of Jewish refugees escaping from the Nazi racial policies of the 1930’s.

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