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This past June, José Aviles and Rubén Naichap, two Ecuadorian men who claim to be leaders of indigenous organizations in Ecuador, accused Ottawa-based Mining Watch Canada of supporting ‘the Economic, Cultural and Social Genocide of the Shuar people’; and of helping to keep ‘the Indigenous People of the Amazon in Poverty.’

In one of two letters written to Mining Watch, Mr. Naichap also says they “endorsed, promoted, and supported a small group of individuals who marched on the EcuaCorriente camp (December 3, 2006)”, allegedly …

Following the recent decision by a Canadian Joint Panel that rejected Northgate Minerals’ Kemess North Project, the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council (CSTC) has discovered several racist and highly offensive comments made towards First Nations people from three different sources: on a Northgate investor website, from a recent editorial in the Northern Miner magazine, and in comments by Northgate Minerals CEO Ken Stowe at a Mining forum in Denver, Colorado.

The CSTC sent out a Press Release (pdf) today, providing the details:

1) On a forum within the Business Section of Yahoo, Northgate investors are quoted using hateful comments, …

On January 22, 2006, twenty two Mayan indigenous Community Leaders had charges laid against them by GoldCorp, with arrest warrants being issued for seven of them.

Incidentally, the charges were layed the very same day Goldcorp promised to establish a dialogue with the local Indigenous Population–upon the condition that they lifted the 10-day-old blockade they had set up. The Mayans agreed, and took down the blockade; but then on January 24 Goldcorp shamefully reneged on its commitment; and them on February 13, two of the seven were violently detained. The …

Earlier this week, the Ecuadorian government held a press conference where it announced that Canada’s Ascendant Copper must suspend all its activities at the controversial Junin project, an open pit copper mine located in the Tropical Andes of Ecuador, for violating the country’s mining laws. This is the fourth stop work order since last December.

Immediately after the conference, Ascendant issued a statement emphatically denying it has violated any laws, and even says the Minister of Oil and Mines just doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

Should …

Some positive news came out of British Columbia this week. The Kemess North Mine Joint Review Panel released its report regarding the Kemess North Copper-Gold Mine–recommending against the Kemess mine, worth $8 Billion, which would turn Amazay Lake into a toxic waste dump. This is quite possibly the first mine in Canadian history the government has made a recommendation against.

On top of that, the Review Panel has also given–or rather confirmed Indigenous Nations in BC have veto power over resource development projects on their respective territories.

This is by all …

On Sunday, members of the Hollow Water First Nation set up a blockade near Highway 304 in Manitoba, preventing access to a cottage development being constructed on Traditional Territory.

Some cottages were already occupied by Canadians, whom were given four hours to vacate the area. No one has been allowed back in since then.

Chief Ian Bushie said on Monday that Hollow Water has not been consulted at any point. All the government has done so far, is send letters and faxes telling them their plans. Now Hollow Water …

A group of nomadic Navajo en route to support the Tyendinaga Mohawks were recently arrested in Ontario, as Suspected Terrorists.

The group of 28—who were unarmed and ranged between the ages of two and 72—travelled from the Arizona desert to British Columbia and then across Canada with several horses in tow.

The whole journey was without incident, but once they arrived in Ontario, they started getting pulled over. First in Wawa, then in Sault St. Marie, and finally in Kaladar (see map) where they were all arrested and put …