September, 2008
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First Nation “Days of action” campaign begins
Centered on ushering in "a new era of first nations relations with the Crown," the "days of action" campaign is now officially underway. On Sunday, "protesters representing Treaty 4 First Nations brought traffic on Highway 1 east of Regina to a crawl and barricaded the road leading into a pipeline construction compound," reports the Saskatchewan [...]
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TransCanada must prove it respects Lubicon rights
Chief Bernard Ominayak of the Lubicon Cree Nation has (once again) informed TransCanada that the Lubicon are "prepared to consider talking with TransCanada about [their] proposal to build a major new gas pipeline across unceded Lubicon Territory," in a letter dated September 9, 2008. However, Chief Ominayak states that such a meeting depends on the [...]
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Call on Congress to protect Native sacred sites
A group of Tribal Nations, Native Rights Organizations, and Social/Environmental Justice Allies have joined forces to address the US federal governments' lack of cooperation and consultation when it comes to corporate development on Indigenous Territories. "Corporate development of federal lands that overlap sacred Tribal ancestral lands not only further the desecration and destruction of sacred [...]
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Media Alert: Saskatchewan Day of Action, September 28
Information is scarce, but there's apparently a day of action in Saskatchewan tomorrow, September 28, 2008, directed at two oil pipeline sites held by the Calgary-based Enbridge corporation. Explained in this video: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=OxDBCCYcQL0, posted on youtube this morning, the action is backed by "The First Nations United Front", a collective of Indigenous nations from the [...]
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Nuclear Waste Dump site proposed in Taiwan
Tawian's Ministry of Economic Affairs recently announced three proposed sites for nuclear waste. Two of these sites are located near indigenous communities in the counties of Pingtung and Taitung in southern Taiwan. As TITVWeekly explains in the following 2-minute news brief, the governments of all three counties have said they will conduct environment evaluations and [...]
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Tribal members concerned about proposed oil refinery
Tribal community members from the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations have major concerns about the dangers they will face if the Council of the Three Affiliated Tribes (TAT), along with Triad Engineers Limited (of Linden, Utah and Calgary, Alberta, Canada), go ahead with their plan to build a new oil refinery on the Fort Berthold [...]
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Sarawak government deposes Penan leaders
In an attempt to break the resistance to logging in the rainforests of Sarawak, the government has officially announced that it will no longer recognize tribal leaders in some Penan communities. These leaders include: 1. Saund Bujang from the community of Long Benali, who successfully led an effort to stop the timber company Samling from [...]
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