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• The Ampilatwatja Walkoff Continues

  

  October 31, 2009  1,262 views 0 Comments Share

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  In July 2009, a group of 30 indigenous elders and leaders from Ampilatwatja, in Australia’s Northern Territory, walked away from their community to escape the Northern Territory Intervention and regain control over their own lives. 3 months later, the Ampilatwatja Walkoff continues. In October, Ampilatwatja’s spokesperson, Richard Downs, conducted a speaking-tour along the east coast of [...]

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• Undercover report on West Papua independence

  

  July 4, 2009  1,731 views 1 comment Share

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  An undercover report broadcast on the BBC about the independence movement in West Papua – where the local indigenous population has been struggling since 1962 to gain independence from brutal Indonesian rule. West Papua is the western half of the island of New Guinea. It borders alongside the independent state of Papua New Guinea [...]

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• Underreported Struggles #26, May 2009

  

  May 31, 2009  3,080 views 4 comments Share

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  In this Month’s Underreported Struggles: 7,000 delegates gather in Peru for the IV Continental Indigenous Summit of Abya Yala; Hundreds of Tibetan villagers face off against armed police ; dozens of indigenous communities in Ecuador struggling after February oil spill; San Carlos Apache speak out against Land Exchange and proposed Copper mine May 30 – Continental [...]

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• Immoral Leadership and Self-Determination

  

  January 22, 2009  1,958 views 4 comments Share

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  Julia Good Fox, a faculty member in the Indigenous Nations and American Indian Studies department at Haskell Indian Nations University, is currently writing a six-part series of essays on understanding, confronting, and replacing Immoral Leadership, one of the main obstacles preventing us (Onkwehonwe, Indigenous People) from achieving authentic self-determination. In her FOREWARD for the series, Good [...]

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• Alberta Chiefs Unanimously Support The Lubicon

  

  November 17, 2008  1,645 views 1 comment Share

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  The Assembly of Treaty Chiefs, which represents Chiefs from Treaty 6, Treaty 7 and Treaty 8 territories in Canada, have issued a unanimous resolution of support for the Lubicon Lake Cree Nation in their ongoing land rights struggle with TransCanada, the Alberta Utilities Commission, and the Provincial and Federal governments. “Notably, Treaty 8 covers the lands [...]

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• Venezuala’s Yukpa attacked by armed “agressors”

  

  August 25, 2008  1,850 views 3 comments Share

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  The Yukpa, an indigenous community in the northwestern region of Venezuela, were attacked last week by hundreds of armed aggressors. “According to the Yukpa, the aggressors were hired by elite landowners to evict the indigenous population from the vast, largely idle pastures in the region known as the Sierra de Perijá near Venezuela’s northwestern border with [...]

  Filed Under accountability • business • indigenous • reclamation • sovereignty • Venezuela • violence • Yukpa

• Police in Ecuador evict 300 Indigenous families

  

  August 24, 2008  1,815 views 2 comments Share

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  Anywhere up to 1,000 police officers in Ecuador were sent last week to evict 300 Kichwa, Shuar and Huaorani families from a 70-hectare lot of land which the Indigenous People had reclaimed early last year. The officers used force to remove the families after they refused to leave on their own. At least one person was [...]

  Filed Under displacement • Ecuador • indigenous • protests • reclamation • sovereignty • struggles • violence