Coca: an Andean Cultural Tradition. Background on the coca plant, tradition of the Andeans dealing with the coca plant, the virtues of coca, confusion between coca and drugs, against eradication…

Description of the Nuxalk Nation. Standards for defining groups as indigenous populations. International standards for indigenous land rights.

The Indigenous Delegates response to the declaration regarding human rights for its people. The WCIP asks for more support from other indigenous people and the United Nations. The Indigenous Delegates…

Comments about the incompetentcy and ineffectiveness of a democratic government. The United States Government fails to support the “sioux” Lakota Nation because it was not designed by the Lakota people…

A list of rights and principles of the Indigenous People. Indigenous nations and peoples have, in common with all humanity, the right to life, and to freedom from oppression, discrimination…

Promting of the awareness of na Hawai’i sorvereignty and self-dtermination. Discussion over the 100th year since the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy by the United States.

The Tremembe Mission, the geographical and demographic background. The “aldeamento” (Indian Settlement) and the collective memory and cultural tradition. Resistance and teh fight for the land.

The Borucas, Costa Rica and Boruca Dam. The Kalinga, Bontac, Phillipines and the Chico Dam. A change in multilateral development bank strategies: the conflict between concepts of development

Thailand: Hill-tribe welfare and development. Government policies and measures to assist the hillt-tribes. Results of hill-tribe welfare and development policies.

Geographical backgroud and a brief history of the Kanak people. Political status of the territory. The current political situation and conclusion