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In Memoriam: Dr. Rudolph C. Rÿser, Founding Chair, CWIS

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The Voice of Biafra International (VOBI) broadcasts, News Analysis

The Voice of Biafra International (VOBI) broadcasts, News Analysis

July 6, 2007

We are encouraged by your steadfastness in our struggle to liberate our people and to take charge of our own destiny and take charge of running our own affairs, using…

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Indonesia: Remove indicted colonel from West Papua

Indonesia: Remove indicted colonel from West Papua

June 28, 2007

The presence in Papua of a senior Indonesian army officer indicted on crimes against humanity charges in East Timor (now Timor-Leste) endangers human rights defenders and political activists and is…

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Standing Silent Nation, Airing July 3rd on PBS

Standing Silent Nation, Airing July 3rd on PBS

June 27, 2007

A Co-production of Native American Public Telecommunications. Alex White Plume and his extended Lakota family, or tiospaye, are known on South Dakota

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Mapuche confront U.S. oil and gas companies in Argentina

Mapuche confront U.S. oil and gas companies in Argentina

June 22, 2007

Martin Velasquez Maliqueo breathed a sigh of relief June 19. He, and the four other Argentine Mapuche who stood trial with him, will not be going to prison.

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Indigenous refugees part of a newly discovered people

Indigenous refugees part of a newly discovered people

June 18, 2007

BRASILIA, Brazil – Fleeing gunfire and further pursuit by ”white men,” a group of previously unknown indigenous people arrived in a small western Brazilian town in the last week of…

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Indian status can be traced through mother, court rules

Indian status can be traced through mother, court rules

June 16, 2007

VANCOUVER — The B.C. Supreme Court has wiped out one of the most contentious aspects of the federal Indian Act, striking down part of Ottawa’s definition of a status Indian…

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Empowering Indigenous People in the Peruvian Amazon

Empowering Indigenous People in the Peruvian Amazon

June 8, 2007

The Shipibo of the Pucalipa region of Central Amazon in eastern Peru plan to host a gathering of Fourth World communities of the Ucayali Rio on June 21-23 to call…

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A Gathering for the Eulachon

A Gathering for the Eulachon

May 29, 2007

The Nuxalk Nation of Bella Coola in conjunction with the Wuixiniwx and Kitasoo-Xai

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Chief 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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