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Marking the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, on Saturday, August 9th, Indigenous Peruvians launched an indefinite, state-wide protest against a set of new government policies that threaten their collective land rights.

“In the southern Amazonian province of Cusco, hundreds of indigenous protesters occupied Lot 56 of the controversial Camisea gas field, forcing the company to cease extraction there. Argentine company Pluspetrol, which operates the field, evacuated its workers from the site,” writes the activist group, Root force.

“In Loreto, another southern Amazonian province, 800 indigenous protesters occupied an …

On August 11 the Association of Indigenous Authorities of Northern Cauca (ACIN) received a letter of terror, signed by the CEC (Campesinos Embejucados del Cauca, or ‘Furious Peasants of Cauca’), announcing that “at approximately 00:00 tonight, you will receive information regarding the murders at the hands of peasants of paHECES [excrement] and the ex-guerrilla heads of the CRIC, which will be confirmed by phone and a consequences of their disrespect.”

The Nasa communities believe the letter comes from landowners and paramilitaries working in collusion with the government; and they have a called a Maximum Alert, urging the Peoples and Popular …

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued its long awaited ruling surrounding Arizona’s San Francisco Peaks, and the religious freedoms of 13 Indigenous Nations who hold the Peaks sacred.

In a split decision, the court decided to reverse the previous March 2007 ruling that opposed the Arizona Snowbowl’s plan to add fake snow made from treated sewage wastewater on to the Peaks so their resort can play host to an extended Ski season.

“The Court found that using reclaimed sewer water to make snow for skiing on an admittedly sacred site posed no ’substantial …

Yakoana - The Voice of Indigenous Peoples, is documentary film about the First World Conference of Indigenous Peoples, which took place in the jungles of Brazil in the summer of 1992.

Bringing together nearly 1000 representatives from 92 Indigenous Nations around the world, the conference was organized in lieu of United Nations Earth Summit, which took place on week after the conference, in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.

The Earth summit was attended by leaders from all major industrial States to discuss the world’s growing environmental crisis - however, only one indigenous representative was permitted to speak. …

With today, August 9th, being the United Nations International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, I thought I would highlight a few of the Struggles facing Indigenous People… the vast majority of which the United Nations seems to completely ignore.

North America
Algonquins of Barriere lake - Located about 400 km north of Montreal, Quebec, the Algonquin community is struggling to regain control after the government unjustly deposed their traditional government and placed them under third party management.

Mi’kmaq and Maliseet - These two Indigenous Nations, along with so many others in Canada, are poised …

The Barriere Lake Solidarity collective is asking groups and organizations to endorse a list of demands issued by the Algonquins of Barriere Lake.

Located about 400 km north of Montreal, Quebec, the Algonquin community was unjustly placed under third party management earlier this year by the Federal Government.

The Algonquins are demanding that the government revoke this management status (something that should be reserved for bankrupt corporations, not indigenous communities with sovereign rights) and that it stops interfering with their internal governance practices. Among other demands, they are also urging the Province …

The US company Allied Energy Systems (AES) is trying to get funding from the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) for the Chan 75, a hydro project in Panama that threatens to displace more than 1,000 indigenous Ngobe from their lands, and cause significant destruction to the environment.

Panama’s Alliance for Conservation and Development (ACD) explains in a recent article, “The dam’s construction is currently taking place in the Palo Seco Protected Forest within the La Amistad Biosphere Reserve, in the Bocas Del Toro region of Panama. Yet the Chan 75 project does …