Category: Global Exchange

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The National Conference of American Indians has dropped out of a scheduled joint meeting in Maine with the National Conference of State Legislatures in solidarity with Wabanaki tribal leaders, and…

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There is growing international alarm over the arrest of Chilean filmmaker Elena Varela, who was taken into custody by police a month ago while working on an investigative documentary on…

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Travellers have voted unanimously to mount a national campaign demanding State recognition for travellers as a distinct ethnic minority group.

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In the 19th Century, Japanese people called the northern island of Hokkaido “Ezochi”. It meant “Land of the Ainu”, a reference to the fair-skinned, long-haired people who had lived there…

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Patterson: Issues of tribal sovereignty, self-sufficiency are universal CHEROKEE, N.C. – With judicial and state assaults on tribal sovereignty, and failed federal policies in Indian country, the nations need to…

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The Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) recieved a press release from the Biafran News Agency announcing that Biafrans Celebrate 41st Independence Day.

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More than 5,000 indigenous and peasant communities in Peru launched a petition drive this week with the aim of getting President Alan Garc

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Sea lice from Norwegian-run salmon farms are killing off vital wild salmon stocks in Canada and Chile, according to a delegation that visited Oslo last week. It accuses Norway’s government…

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The time was right. On April 23, a television station that once was the voice of the Guatemalan military dictatorship that had massacred thousands of Mayans showed the glyph of…

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On April 11, a new academic organization officially came into existence at what will one day be called (by future academics, of course) a ”historic” meeting held at the University…