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• Innu block access to mining projects on their territory

  

  June 14, 2010  1,014 views 15 comments Share

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  Innu communities are blocking access to two mining projects in northeastern Quebec and western Labrador in an attempt to protect their Indigenous rights and ensure no mining can proceed on their territory without their prior consent. At the moment, roughly 100 Innu from the communities of Matimekush-Lac John and Uashat mak Mani-Utenam are attending the [...]

  Filed Under blockades • Canada • Indigenous Peoples • Innu • mining

• Underreported Struggles #15, June 2008

  

  July 1, 2008  1,927 views 0 Comments Share

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  A Canadian court paves the way to reclassify 16 lakes as mine waste dumps; The US Supreme court issues at least three rulings against indigenous rights; Police in Australia bar Indigenous People from visiting scared site; the O’odham of Gila River become the first Indigenous Community in the US to ratify the UN Declaration on [...]

  Filed Under alaska • America • Australia • blockades • Brazil • Canada • Dene • Energy • environment • forestry • gold • Guatemala • Indigenous Peoples • Innu • Kenya • Malaysia • MST • oil • Orissa • Peru • Philippines • struggles • underreported • uranium

• Urgent: Innu People Threatened with Evictions

  

  June 11, 2008  3,616 views 1 comment Share

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  Following a lawsuit filed by dozens of Innu seeking to establish title to their traditional lands, the provincial government of Newfoundland Labrador has issued eviction notices to more than 100 Innu families; giving them 60 days to "remove all structures from Crown land and restore the site to its original conditions." If they fail to [...]

  Filed Under ALERT • Canada • displacement • evictions • Indigenous Peoples • Innu • jurisdiction • struggles

• India – Innu Reaches out to Jarawa

  

  February 21, 2007  1,265 views 0 Comments Share

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  Survival At Stake by George Rich, Innu Nation published on www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com The Jarawa tribe of the Andaman Islands has long captured imaginations around the world, especially among other tribal peoples like my people, the Innu of north-eastern Canada. Since the final years of the twentieth century, when they stopped resisting with lethal arrows any contact [...]

  Filed Under Energy • hydro dams • India • Indigenous Peoples • Innu • Jarawa