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Opposition to a controversial Bush administration proposal that would dramatically alter the federal trust relationship is mounting.

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee has been holding meetings across the country to solicit input on a bill that would settle the Cobell trust fund lawsuit. Most tribes support that goal but they are criticizing a sweeping set of changes, unveiled just last week, that would go much further.

With time running out to pass the bill, tribal leaders said they were broadsided by the proposal. “Where is the dialogue? Where is the respect to Indian Country?” asked Ernie Stensgar, the president of …

Stuart Rintoul, October 14, 2006

ABORIGINAL people in Queensland and NSW are preparing legal action against their state governments over wages they should have been paid as labourers or servants, but which they never received.

This is despite a $55.5million offer to settle the stolen wages cases by the Beattie Government, which drew widespread condemnation when it was capped at individual payments of $4000; a NSW scheme that over the past year has accepted $400,000 in claims of up to $25,000; and a Senate inquiry into the matter.

Aborigines also learned this week that NSW archivists had discovered 139 boxes of …

SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE
5 October 2006

COLOMBIA: AMAZON NOMADS ASK TO GO HOME

The nomadic Nukak tribe, who were recently moved by Colombian authorities to a new camp far from their traditional lands, have asked to return to their own homes.

The plea comes after the death of a nine year old Nukak boy and a severe flu epidemic which struck down almost a quarter of the tribe.

In the new camp the Nukak are forced to live together in one place which, as experts had warned, has led to outbreaks of disease; traditionally they live in small, nomadic groups. …

From the Mexican news agency APRO, Sept. 20 via Chiapas95 (our translation):
JALAPA - Protesting the failure of authorities to indemnify hundreds of families left homeless by a flood this past June, and to complete public works in the region, hundreds of indigenous people of the Sierra Soteapan closed the valves of the Yuribia Dam that supplies water to an important southern zone of Veracruz.

The occupation of the Yuribia installations since last Sunday leaves the municipalities of Coatzacoalcos, Minatitlan and Cosoleacaque without drinking water.

No agreement has been reached to re-establish the supply, confirmed the governor, Fidel Herrera Beltran.

The inhabitants of various …

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Ahee’ hee’ to everyone for their support!

PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release:
September 14, 2006
Contact: coalition(at)savethepeaks.org

Hundreds Show Support For Native American Sacred Sites & Human Rights

Navajo Nation President and Tribal Leaders, Among Many, at 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

San Francisco, CA - Hundreds of people gathered today in front of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, unified in efforts to save a sacred mountain in Arizona from desecration by a proposed ski resort development. The courts …

By Michelle Chen, Sept. 14 - After a long campaign by indigenous-rights and public-interest groups, the federal government has dismissed corporations’ plans to create a nuclear-waste dump on an Indian reservation in Utah.

The decision by the US Department of the Interior (DOI) all but ends a decade-long controversy that divided an indigenous community and threatened to turn native land into a repository for deadly radioactive waste.

Last Thursday, DOI’s Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Indian Affairs concluded that the plan to establish a major storage facility for irradiated nuclear waste on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation had failed to …

This item comes from Weekly News Update on the Americas, No. 856, 8/27/06. www.americas.org

During the week of Aug. 14, some 500 indigenous Guarani people began an occupation at the Parapeti station of the Yacuiba-Rio Grande gas pipeline (GASYRG) near Charagua, in the eastern Bolivian department of Santa Cruz, to demand that the Transierra company pay the Guarani people $9 million in exchange for allowing the pipeline to operate on their land. Transierra agreed in a 2005 accord to provide that amount to benefit the Guarani people; the company says the funding was to be distributed over a 20-year period, …