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RIGHTS: Go Green, Save the Indigenous
African indigenous peoples are important custodians of their natural environments with valuable local knowledge and skills, but are struggling to survive, according to a report.
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CHILE: Emerging Party Seeks Self-Government for Mapuche People
Wallmapuwen, which means “people of the Mapuche land” in the language of that indigenous group, aims to formally become a political party in July this year in the southern Chilean…
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I have often marveled at writers who could create beautiful stories from adversity–powerful works of art exhibiting the dignity of creativity under duress. I have also often wondered if guardians…
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Robert Tim Coulter of the Indian Law Resource Center notes that an apology from Congress to American Indians for past discrimination rings hollow absent a willingness by Congress to cease…
Read moreRe-founding Nation-states
There are other indigenous movements that do not demand autonomies but the re-founding of nation-states based on indigenous cultures. This is the tendency most apparent in the various movements in…
Read moreCreative Funding
The art of financing is a highly complex product of human creativity. Undoubtedly those of us who are masters of this art can be extremely influential. Especially so in the…
Read moreIndigenous Movements in the Americas: From Demand for Recognition to Building Autonomies
Latin America is living a time of autonomy movements, especially for indigenous autonomy. The demand became a central concern in national indigenous movements in the 1990s and intensified in the…
Read moreLeap of Faith
“At the heart of evolutionary anthropology lay the assumption that the human mind was guided by universal, not culturally specific, impulses…This assumption had two important methodological implications. First, it allowed…
Read moreEliminating Racial Discrimination
International Indian Treaty Council has sent a report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination documenting constitutional and institutional discrimination against indigenous peoples in the United States….
Read moreDo No Harm
The Aboriginal Women’s Action Network has come out in opposition to the legalization of brothels in British Columbia to service sex tourism at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. More information about…
Read moreChief George Manuel Memorial Indigenous Library
The library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.
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