September 3-10th 2010, Honolulu hosts the 6th annual “Healing Our Spirit Worldwide.” an Indigenous cultural celebration that will focus on successes, wise practices and common issues in health, healing and addictions within Indigenous communities. The Sixth Gathering will radiate the wisdom of our kupuna (elders) and the aloha of the land and the Indigenous people of ka pae ‘aina Hawai‘i.

Healing Our Spirit Worldwide is an Indigenous cultural celebration that will focus on successes, wise practices and common issues in health, healing and addictions within Indigenous communities. The Sixth Gathering will radiate the wisdom of our kupuna (elders) and the aloha of the land and the Indigenous people of ka pae ‘aina Hawai‘i.

The 2010 gathering in Honolulu will continue the tradition of HOSW—to strengthen and heal Indigenous families and communities worldwide.

April 16, 2010 by Peter DizikesEnlarge

A farm in the Peruvian Andes. An MIT economics student has shown that there are deep historical roots of poverty and wealth among Peru’s agrarian communities.

To an economist, a map of southern Peru has a peculiar appearance. If you draw a line forming a kind of jagged oval, outlining a chunk of the Andes running from northwest to southeast, you have enclosed a region of relative poverty lying among areas of greater wealth. Yet there is no readily apparent explanation for this disparity; the well-off districts do not appear to have more natural resources than the poor ones, for instance.

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