February, 2007

• Re-possession not occupation – Hauraki Maori

  

  February 28, 2007  1,356 views 0 Comments Share

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  Re-possession not occupation - Hauraki Maori By Reon Suddaby - Waikato Times February 27, 2007 Protesters occupying a 1100ha block of Crown-owned Coromandel Peninsula land say they will stay as long as it takes to get back what they see as rightfully theirs. The group of Hauraki Maori moved on to Whenuakite Station, between Whitianga [...]

  Filed Under Maori • New Zealand

• Peru-Brazil – Uncontacted Indians Flee Logging onslaught

  

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  Peru-Brazil - Uncontacted Indians Flee Logging onslaught www.survival-international.org Feruary 28, 2007 The Brazilian government has discovered signs of some of the world's last uncontacted tribes living near the border with Peru. The Indians are believed to have fled illegal mahogany logging sweeping through Peru's rainforests, destroying the Indians' homelands and forcing them out of their [...]

  Filed Under Brazil • business • forestry • Indigenous Peoples • Peru • uncontacted

• Mapuches Return to Benetton-Held Land

  

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  Mapuches Return to Benetton-Held Land by Marcela Valente, www.ipsnews.net February 27, 2007 BUENOS AIRES, Feb 27 (Tierramérica) - Mapuche Indians in the southern Argentine region of Patagonia, who in 2002 took part in a land dispute against the Italian textile group Benetton, have returned to occupy land belonging to the firm, reclaiming their ancestral rights. [...]

  Filed Under Argentina • business • Indigenous Peoples • Mapuche

• Hunted Like Animals

  

  February 27, 2007  3,025 views 3 comments Share

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  Hunted Like Animals is an eye-opening documentary about an ongoing, but unknown, genocide - against the Hmong people in the jungles of Laos. Coerced into joining the CIA's anti-communist efforts during the Viet Nam war, this ethnic minority became a Secret Army. When the U.S. pulled out of Southeast Asia in 1975 and the Lao [...]

  Filed Under genocide • Hmong Lao • Laos • Thailand • video • Vietnam

• Vietnam – Politburo Continues to Oppress Indigenous Peoples

  

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  Vietnam's Politburo Continues to Oppress Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Minorities By David M. Kinchen, Huntington News Network February 25, 2007 - Hardliners in Vietnam's politburo in Hanoi are obsessed with punishing, oppressing and even eliminating peoples -- such as the Khmer Krom, Montagnards and Hmong Lao, that aligned themselves more than 30 years ago with the [...]

  Filed Under Cambodia • China • Indigenous Peoples • Khmer-Krom • Laos • reports • Vietnam

• Arawak nation to open North American consulate

  

  February 26, 2007  1,515 views 0 Comments Share

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  Arawak nation to open North American consulate www.caribbeannetnews.com January 27, 2007 WASHINGTON, USA: The first peoples to suffer the consequences of Columbus's arrival in the 'New World' are boldly stepping into the 21st century. As of February 4, 2007, Taino-Arawak Elder Cyril Taylor will become the Honorary Consul of the Lokono-Arawak Nation of South America [...]

  Filed Under Arawak • Indigenous Peoples • sovereignty

• Protests Mount Against Mining Giant

  

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  Protests Mount Against Mining Giant Stephen Leahy, www.ipsnews.net February 24, 2007 TORONTO, Feb 24 (Tierramérica) - Dangerous levels of lead and arsenic have been found in the blood of Honduran villagers living downstream from a controversial gold and silver mine owned by Canada's Goldcorp Inc., the world's third largest gold mining firm. According to the [...]

  Filed Under business • gold • Honduras • Indigenous Peoples • mining • toxins