My motivation

I found this photo on the Facebook page of Survival International (http://www.survivalinternational.org/), one of my favourite websites and organizations. When writing my 60 page independent study unit in grade 11 entitled The Mistreatment of Indigenous Peoples Worldwide (I had no idea how large of a topic it was going to be when I got started), I looked to this website for case study information, accurate information about corporate involvement in the health of Indigenous peoples' lives, and for an illuminating look into what it means to be an indigenous person in the world today.

This photo can currently be found on The Boston Globe's website as one of the fifty news photographs of the century (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/the_decade_in_news_photographs.html)

Here is the photo from another angle where you can see the state policeman who intends to hit this woman out of the way:

These photos are uncomfortable and painful to look at for me. However, these photos and others alike are my motivation to keep pursuing a very emotionally-taxing area of work: social justice and indigenous rights.