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One year ago today, the OPP raided a site occupied by Six Nations People, in a failed attempt to end the protest that began at the end of February 2006, to compel Canada and Ontario to uphold The Two Row Wampum — and Respect the Haldimand Proclamation by ceasing a development project and vacating the region, now known as Kanonhstaton.

The past year has been a consistently tense, empowering, and educational experience for people both in support of, and in opposition to the Reclamation Project, and Indigenous Peoples struggles everywhere.

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The following is yet another situation where corporations are illegally encroaching on the land of Indigenous People — however, in Jharkhand, India, it’s amidst raging subterranean coal fires.

From www.peacefulsocieties.org
Coal mining in India’s Jharkhand state threatens to destroy the forests that the Birhor, and other aboriginal groups, depend on. A detailed report in an Indian paper issued on February 23rd explains the background of the mining practices in this area and the ways they affect the tribal peoples.

Evidently the Jharia mining district in eastern Jharkhand has India’s richest deposits of coking coal, …

The Orang Asli are those Indigenous to Peninsular Malaysia. Numbering over 100,000, the Orang Asli are comprised of 18 different communities - most of whom hold their own Languages and Traditions.

Living primarily in the Forests of Malaysia, the Orang Asli (which means ‘Original People’ in Malay) have had an historical experience not unlike the Indigenous with the Colonial States of Canada, America, and Australia…

In the 18th and 19th centuries slavery was a ‘common feature’ among the Orang, who were commonly viewed as as ‘kafirs’, and ‘non-humans.’

The modus operandi was basically to swoop down on a settlement and kill off …

Game parks threaten Africa’s indigenous people: UN
By Laura MacInnis, www.reuters.com
March 20,2007

GENEVA (Reuters) - Indigenous communities in Africa are “on the brink of destruction” due to the expansion of national game parks and insufficient law enforcement, a United Nations expert said on Tuesday.

Rodolfo Stavenhagen, a special rapporteur on the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, said reserves in countries such as Kenya and Botswana had disrupted hunter-gatherer and pastoralist populations, such as the Maasai.

Many of the countries have enacted laws formally entrenching the rights of indigenous populations in maintaining their lifestyles and culture, but their governments have done …

Land and Natural Resource Alienation in Cambodia
www.focusweb.org
March 8. 2007

Land is the repository of memory and keeps traces of the past in the absence of a strong written tradition. It is perceived as an open book from which anyone can read and learn about local history: place names, old roads, legends and stories attached to places. For local people, bulldozing the landscape is seen as erasing their history, and disturbing social organisations and traditions - Shalmali Guttal, Focus on the Global South, December, 2006.

Ask any Cambodian what s/he considers the foundation of society and life in Cambodia and the answer …

Penan Blockade Demolished: Samling bulldozing new logging road, destroying community’s primary rainforests
BRIMAS, Miri, - 8 February 2007

PENAN LOGGING BLOCKADE REMOVED

A group of Malaysian Police Force together with the personnel of the Samling Timber Corporation has completely removed the Penan logging blockade in upper Baram, Sarawak on 7th February 2007 (Wednesday).

The Penan village of Long Benali and several other Penan villages in the interior of Baram district have set up the blockade since 2004. They put up logs and wooden structures tightened with rattans across the logging road. A hut was also built and used by the Penan …