March, 2008

• Indigenous Law and Legal Systems in Canada

  

  March 22, 2008  1,574 views 0 Comments Share

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  Here is a 5 minute summary of a two-day conference held last year at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law. Some of the topics discussed at the conference included: Indigenous Nations and the Legal Relativity of European Claims to Territorial Sovereignty in North America; Indigenous Law and its Contribution to Global Pluralism; Aboriginal Traditions [...]

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• The People of Kitchenuhmaykoosib won’t give up

  

  March 20, 2008  1,852 views 3 comments Share

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  Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) have responded to the recent sentencing of Chief Donny Morris and 5 other members of the community. In no uncertain terms, they will continue to struggle for their land and rights. See the full Press Release below. PRESS RELEASE March 20, 2008 Kitchenuhmaykoosib, Ontario - We are saddened today that our leaders [...]

  Filed Under blockades • Canada • Indigenous Peoples • jurisdiction • KIFN • moratorium • Ontario • struggles • Traditions

• Indian Affairs Out of Barriere Lake!

  

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  The Algonquins of Barriere Lake have sent out an urgent call for support, asking people to help them prevent Canada from illegally replacing their Traditional Government. Canada is attempting to do so by taking advantage of a leadership problem that began last September, according to the Ottawa Citizen, "when former chief Jean Maurice Matchewan stepped [...]

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• Benetton Trying to Evict Mapuche from their Lands

  

  March 19, 2008  1,863 views 2 comments Share

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  On March 4th, the Italian textile consortium Benetton filed a lawsuit in an Argentinian court that seeks to evict a Mapuche community from the land known as "Santa Rosa." In February of last year, the Mapuche reclaimed the land after being violently evicted 5 years earlier. The company claims the tract of land should be [...]

  Filed Under Argentina • business • evictions • Indigenous Peoples • jurisdiction • Mapuche • reclamation • struggles

• KIFN Members Given Six Months.

  

  March 18, 2008  1,890 views 2 comments Share

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  Six of the seven members of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation were sentenced yesterday to six months in jail for opposing unsanctioned development on their Traditional lands. (video) KIFN has yet to make any formal statements about the ruling, but Deputy Grand Chief Glen Hare, representing the 42 member communities of the Anishinabek Nation, [...]

  Filed Under Canada • Indigenous Peoples • justice • KIFN • Ontario • struggles • Traditions

• News and Video Roundup on Tibetan Uprising

  

  March 16, 2008  2,312 views 0 Comments Share

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  With Tibet exiles attempting to return home, the Chinese government is in the midst of conducting a "people's war" of violence and propaganda against Tibetan Buddhists and anyone who supports the Dalai Lama. Since this began, about one week ago, anywhere up to 300 demonstrators have died and hundreds more have been detained. By the [...]

  Filed Under campaigns • China • genocide • Indigenous Peoples • justice • Olympics • sovereignty • struggles • Tibet

• All opposed to Indigenous Rights, say “Sorry”

  

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  In the last month, two of the four States that opposed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People issued "apology resolutions" for the historical crimes they committed against indigenous people. First it was Australia on February 13th; and then America threw up an apology of it's own a couple weeks later, on [...]

  Filed Under America • Australia • colonialism • Indigenous Peoples • justice • racism • residential schools • youth