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Reclaiming Land and Dignity on Easter Island
For the past two weeks, 500 Indigenous Peoples in Rapa Nui--a place more commonly known as Easter Island--have been occupying more than two dozen buildings over a land dispute that dates back to 1888. In 1888, the remote island, known around the world for its monumental statues, called Moai, was annexed by a naval Officer, [...]
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Sickening call to indoctrinate Jarawa children
An Indian Member of Parliament (MP) has called for the forced removal of all children from the Indigenous Jarawa People on Andaman Island, off the coast of India, so that they can be indoctrinated into living and behaving like Indian citizens. "Indigenous people around the world have reacted furiously to the move, which echoes the [...]
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Barriere Lake Algonquins have the right to govern themselves
The Canadian government is getting ready to dispose of the Barriere Lake Algonquin's traditional governance system, using a rarely invoked piece of the Indian Act known as Section 74. As if jumping back to 1876, the Canadian government has invoked Section 74 of the Indian Act, a draconian measure that grants the minister of Indian [...]
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Papua New Guinea: Indigenous People stripped of land rights
Indigenous Landowners have been stripped of their Constitutionally-protected land rights by the government of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Without any warning or consultation, on 27 May 2010, the government of PNG introduced emergency legislation that dissolves the Constitutional rights of all landowners in PNG, including the right of Indigenous People to own land, challenge resource [...]
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Thousands of Tibetans mobilize to defend Sacred Mountains
A massive police crackdown may be imminent in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), where thousands of Tibetan villagers have mobilized to defend their sacred mountains from exploitation. According to reports from Radio Free Asia (RFA), the villagers are attempting to halt three separate gold mines in Tsongshen, Choeten, and Deshoe in Markham county, TAR. As [...]
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Urgent: Join tribes at Sacred Eagle Rock in Michigan to prevent Acid Mine
Indigenous People and non-native supporters have set up a protest camp at the base of Sacred Eagle Rock in northern Michigan. The multi-tribe encampment, it is feared, "could be raided by mine guards and police at any moment". If you are in the area or willing to travel, you are encouraged to visit the site [...]
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Indigenous People issue warning of bloodshed over Amazon dam approval
Indigenous leaders have issued a warning that "bloodshed" is imminent now that Brazil has granted rights to build the controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the Amazon. The Auction was rushed through on Tueday, April 22, following a set of court injunctions that blocked and then unblocked the auction process. About 500 Indigenous people, environmentalists [...]
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Bangladesh military opens fire on Indigenous Jumma People
Eight people are dead and more than two dozen have been injured after the Bangladesh military, on Feb. 20, 2010, opened fire on a group of Indigenous Jumma villagers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh. Four villages sponsored by the United Nations were also burned to the ground by a group Bengali settlers [...]
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Pregnant Anti-Mining Activist Murdered in El Salvador
On December 26, Dora “Alicia” Sorto Recinos, an active opponent of Pacific Rim's El Dorado gold mine in El Salvador, was shot and killed as she returned home from doing her laundry. Sorto Recinos was eight months pregnant and carrying her two-year old child at the time. The child was also shot, in the foot, [...]
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Amazon natives move to evict U.S. Oil company
Some three hundred indigenous people from the Peruvian Amazon region of Madre de Dios are on their way to the town of Salvacion to evict the Texas-based company Hunt Oil from their ancestral territory. According to reports on mongabay.com, hundreds of Peruvian police officers are waiting in the town for their arrival. Last month, Indigenous [...]
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