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Western Shoshone Nation Attends Historic Indigenous Gathering
Continental Indigenous Summit Abya Yala
March 28, 2007

Iximche, Guatemala

Arriving this morning (Wednesday) in Guatemala City to attend the III Continental Indigenous Summit in Iximche, Western Shoshone National Council member Joe Kennedy established diplomatic precedent for the hemisphere by entering the Maya Territories on his Western Shoshone passport. The continental summit of Nations and Pueblos of the Indigenous Peoples of the continent Abya Yala (the Americas) is now taking place at the sacred ceremonial precinct of Iximche, some 80 kilometers from Guatemala City. The event is being attended by indigenous delegations from Alaska to Argentina with …

by: Steven Newcomb / Indigenous Law Institute

Once in a while, a book comes along that holds your attention so well that you cannot put it down. ”Unlearning the Language of Conquest: Scholars Expose Anti-Indianism in America,” edited by Four Arrows (Don Trent Jacobs), is such a book. A tertiary subtitle reads: ”Deceptions that influence war and peace, civil liberties, public education, religion and spirituality, democratic ideals, the environment, law, literature, film, and happiness.” The book, published by the University of Texas Press, exposes in a mere 280 pages such deceptions while delivering much-needed illumination on many issues dealing with indigenous …

take place in Honolulu on Friday, October 13, 5:00 pm, in front of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, 1184 Bishop St. (at the top of Fort Street Mall). Indigenous peoples and supporters from around the world are encouraged to organize a small ceremonial event and symbolically burn or tear-up copies of the May 4, 1493 papal bull “Inter Caetera” in response to the October 12 “Columbus Day”/”Discoverer’s Day” fiasco.

The document can be downloaded from our website at:
http://bullsburning.itgo.com/papbull.htm

Sponsoring organizations include: Kosmos Indigena, Ka Pakaukau, Matsunaga Institute for Peace, Ahupua’a Action Alliance, Hawai’i Institute for Human Rights, and …

Thanks to Brenda Norrell for passing this on to me.

Some MP3 files are about half way down the page - and if you catch this post in the next couple days, you can listen to the Summit live: (stream 1) (stream 2)

Border Summit of the Americas
Tohono O’dham Nation
Live From Tucson Arizona
Sept 29th to Oct 1 2006

Arizona Border Rights Foundation
Fundacion de Derechos Fronterizos de Arizona
P.O. Box 1286 Tucson, AZ 85702
Phone: (520) 770-1373 Fax: (520)770-7455

Contact:
Derechos Humanos: 520-770-1373; e-mail: kat@derechoshumanosaz.net
Mike Flores: 520-235-7599 e-mail mmiranda@tocc.cc.az.us

Border Summit of the Americas
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Tohono O’dham communities have …

Summit: Doctrine of Discovery was ‘political fiction’
Posted: August 14, 2006
by: Brenda Norrell / Indian Country Today

PHOENIX - Indigenous in the Americas are demanding that the ”doctrines of discovery,” the papal bulls that led to the seizure of American Indian homelands, be rescinded.

At the Summit of Indigenous Nations on Bear Butte in South Dakota, delegations of indigenous nations and nongovernmental organizations passed a strongly worded resolution condemning the historical use of the doctrine of discovery as an instrument of genocide.

Tupac Enrique Acosta, coordinator at Tonatierra in Phoenix, said the effort at Bear Butte continues the indigenous battle to halt genocide …

NEW YORK - There is no ambiguity in the language of the 15th-century papal bulls issued by the popes of the Roman Catholic Church as they encouraged the kings of Portugal and Spain to conquer ”undiscovered” lands, enslave their non-Christian populations and expropriate their possession and resources.

Now, more than 500 years later, the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues has called on Pope Benedict XVI to revoke and renounce those documents.

The bulls, according to the forum, formed the ”doctrine of discovery” - a philosophy that sanctified the massacre of millions of indigenous people and continues to influence U.S. Supreme Court …