The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued its long awaited ruling surrounding Arizona’s San Francisco Peaks, and the religious freedoms of 13 Indigenous Nations who hold the Peaks sacred. In a split decision, the court decided to reverse the previous March 2007 ruling that opposed the Arizona Snowbowl's plan to add fake snow made [...]
Yakoana - The Voice of Indigenous Peoples, is documentary film about the First World Conference of Indigenous Peoples, which took place in the jungles of Brazil in the summer of 1992. Bringing together nearly 1000 representatives from 92 Indigenous Nations around the world, the conference was organized in lieu of United Nations Earth Summit, which [...]
With today, August 9th, being the United Nations International Day of the World's Indigenous People, I thought I would highlight a few of the Struggles facing Indigenous People... the vast majority of which the United Nations seems to completely ignore. North America Algonquins of Barriere lake - Located about 400 km north of Montreal, Quebec, [...]
The Barriere Lake Solidarity collective is asking groups and organizations to endorse a list of demands issued by the Algonquins of Barriere Lake. Located about 400 km north of Montreal, Quebec, the Algonquin community was unjustly placed under third party management earlier this year by the Federal Government. The Algonquins are demanding that the government [...]
The US company Allied Energy Systems (AES) is trying to get funding from the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) for the Chan 75, a hydro project in Panama that threatens to displace more than 1,000 indigenous Ngobe from their lands, and cause significant destruction to the environment. Panama's Alliance for Conservation and Development (ACD) explains [...]
Following-up last week's story about Vedanta and the Dongria Kondh, the company recently held it's Annual General Meeting (AGM) in London, where it assured shareholders and the attending Kondh that it will not proceed with it's bauxite mine in the sacred hills of Nyamgiri without the tribe's consent. "I can only promise that we will [...]
Canada's Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. David Butler-Jones, released his first Annual Report on the State of Public Health in Canada a few weeks ago. There's been little to no commentary about the report since it was released -- be it from the government or the general public. It's almost like it doesn't even exist [...]