January, 2008

• Kenya’s Ogiek tribe caught up in violence

  

  January 30, 2008  2,645 views 0 Comments Share

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  Today, Survival International released an alert explaining that Kenya's honey-hunting Ogiek are being targeted in the escalating post-election violence in Kenya. "An Ogiek leader said today, ‘We the Ogiek people have suffered police shooting, intimidations and threats…. Currently five of our youth have been shot and injured as hundreds of families fled their homes…. We [...]

  Filed Under Africa • business • Energy • evictions • Indigenous Peoples • Kenya • land • Ogiek • oil • struggles

• Grants for Filmmakers of Indigenous Descent

  

  January 29, 2008  1,841 views 2 comments Share

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  For those who may like to know, National Geographic has an ongoing initiative called the All Roads Film Project, in which they offer grants ranging up to $10,000 for "indigenous and under-represented minority culture filmmakers, as well as filmmakers who can demonstrate that they have been designated by indigenous or minority communities to tell their [...]

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• Dams in Burma to displace thousands

  

  January 27, 2008  3,103 views 3 comments Share

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  The Shan Herald reports that the first construction phase of the Tasang Dam is nearing completion. According to a source from the Thai/Burma border, Chinese dam builders have been at the site since last November, and have so far installed about 90% of the dams pillars. The Tasang is the largest of 4 dams currently [...]

  Filed Under Burma • China • displacement • Energy • hydro dams • Indigenous Peoples • land • petition • reports • youth

• Poison Wind

  

  January 26, 2008  2,472 views 0 Comments Share

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  The following video is six-minute clip is from Poison Wind, a documentary that examines the devastating impact Uranium mining has had on Indigenous People in the four corners region of New Mexico and Northern Arizona. "As a government’s cruel secret is carried on the face of the wind," writes Jenny Pond, one of the film's [...]

  Filed Under America • Canada • genocide • Indigenous Peoples • land • mining • Pueblo • struggles • toxins • uranium • video

• Indigenous People detained for promoting culture to tourists

  

  January 25, 2008  2,115 views 1 comment Share

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  On Saturday, January 12, seven indigenous people from Raposa Serra do Sol land were detained and abused by Brazil's Federal Police after inspecting and promoting cultural awareness among tourists at Caracaranã Lake, an area that's frequently promoted in tourist packages. According to a recent statement by CIMI, the "tourists leave a lot of garbage, offend [...]

  Filed Under Brazil • campaigns • criminalization • Indigenous Peoples • land • Makuxi • struggles • tourism

• Indigenous Communities step up land protection effort

  

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  Indigenous Communities in the Philippines have been recently forced to step up their efforts to defend their lands against foreign mining interests. There were two separate blockades last month, both in Nueva Vizcaya, Northern Luzon. The first blockade was set up on Thursday, December 10th, shortly after the Ifugao, Ibaloi and Kalanguya got word the [...]

  Filed Under Australia • blockades • Didipio • gold • Indigenous Peoples • land • mining • petition • Philippines • struggles

• Highway means death to the Jarawa

  

  January 24, 2008  2,628 views 0 Comments Share

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  The Andaman Trunk Road, a 200 mile-stretch of concrete that breaks through one of India's most pristine landscapes, is being used now more than ever. According to recent figures, there has been a threefold increase in traffic since 2001 - "from 17,315 to 37,505 in 2006. A total of 27,674 vehicles travelled the road in [...]

  Filed Under India • Indigenous Peoples • Jarawa • land • struggles