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President-elect Barack Obama has a few private moments in a small holding room in the capitol, moments before getting ready to step out into his Inauguration, January 20, 2009. Photo by Charles Ommanney/Getty Images.

WASHINGTON - JANUARY 20: the President elect-obama practices his salute on staff member reggie love while michelle looks on with lincoln bible in hand. , before going out to his inauguration . january 20, 2009. (Photo by Charles Ommanney/Getty…

WASHINGTON - JANUARY 20: president-elect Barack H. Obama and President Bush share a laugh before they leave the white house to go on route to the capitol for the inauguration. (Photo by Charles Ommanney/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON - JANUARY 20: First Lady Laura Bush takes Michelle Obama for a private tour of the artwork in the East wing (Green room) of the White House during a coffee morning with congressional leaders before Barack Obama is sworn in by Chief Justice…

WASHINGTON - JANUARY 20: Obama listens to Presdient G.W. Bush . In the last moments of their administration President George W. Bush, first lady Laura Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynn welcome Barack H. Obama and his wife Michelle…

On January 20th 2009 Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States. This inauguration signaled the end of the Bush years. The young president was to inherit two wars, a raging recession and teeming unemployment. The pressure was…

An arhuaco girl rests on hay outside her home in Nabusimake. The Consultancy for Human Rights (CODHES) estimates that 4.5 million Colombians have been uprooted since 1985 due to the armed conflict. The indigenous communities of the Sierra Nevada de…

Fredi Montero, a nineteen-year-old wiwa, sells fique fiber to a neighbour in the small village of Potrerito. Fique is used to weave handbags and hammocks.

A wiwa loads goods on the back of his mule in Tezhumake.

Wiwa boys and girls attend class in Tezhumake. Schooling indigenous children is the source of unresolved conflict in their communities. Many fear that learning to write will limit the ability of the young to preserve the oral tradition of the wiwa…