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Article: Chiapas peace talks raise call for Native autonomy
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- November 30, 1995
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Anita Snow
News From Indian Country
11-30-1995
Chiapas peace talks raise call for Native autonomy.
Mexican Natives, ruled for centuries by the laws of their conquerors, are demanding the right to govern themselves and control their ancestral lands.
From Sonora state in the north to Chiapas in the south, the Otomi, Zapotec, Chol, Purepecha and Huichol peoples have issued a nationwide call for native autonomy.
"Today, brothers, without autonomy we look down at the feet of the white man," said Julio Atenco Vidal, a Nahua from the gulf state of Veracruz, one of scores of Indian activists attending the latest round of peace talks here.
"But with autonomy, we can look them in the eye," Atenco Vidal ...