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2,000 indigenous leaders register for third American indigenous peoples’ summit - February 19, 2007

Some 2,000 indigenous people’s leaders across the Americas have registered for the third Continental Summit for Indigenous People slated for March 26-30 in Guatemala’s Tecpan, according to reports on Sunday.

Domingo Hernandez, a leader of the National Maya Convergence Waq’ib Kiej and a member of the organizing committee, told media in Guatemala City that the main topics for the conference would be globalization and indigenous peoples’ political participation.

The meeting would discuss how to recover indigenous peoples’ autonomy and rights over natural resources, he said.

Bolivian President Evo Morales and …

Media release from Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTAR)

Amendments to the Native Title Act being debated in the House of Representatives today would increase the powers of the Minister and Native Title Tribunal at the expense of traditional owners, their representative bodies and the Federal Court, according to Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR).

ANTaR National Director, Gary Highland said the amendments would further limit the ability of Indigenous people to have their native title rights recognized. Instead they will create greater uncertainty, conflict and confusion by threatening the independence of native title representative bodies, compromising the …

From No One Is Illegal-Montreal Radio (February 2007) Part of CKUT’s Open Conspiracy for Social Change - 90.3FM in Montreal.

This interview is with Katienies, who was recently described as “lawless” by an official of the Canadian Border Services Agency. She is a member of the Akwesasne Community, part of the Mohawk Nation, and is currently wanted on an arrest warrant, from the Superior Court of Justice in Cornwall, Ontario, for refusing to appear on customs and border violations.

Katienies refuses to recognize the authority of the Canadian courts, or any colonial courts and border officials, until they have clearly …

From Zoe, www.zoeblunt.gnn.tv

The Kwakiutl First Nation has called for a demonstration at the Legislature on Monday at 11 am to protest the Province’s decision to transfer land in its territory without consultation. The transfer is part of a deal between Western Forest Products and the Province to take private land out of Tree Farm Licenses on northern Vancouver Island. The Kwakiutl Band Council states that it was informed about the application, but it was not consulted, and it is still waiting for official notice of the decision that was made January 31. Western Forest Products stands to make millions …

Court dismisses collective native title claim
ABC News Online
Feb. 5, 2007

The Federal Court has dismissed a native title claim over 160,000 square kilometres of land north of Kalgoorlie, in southern Western Australia.

The claim mainly involved the Wongatha group and another seven overlapping claims.

In handing down his decision, Justice Kevin Lindgren said the groups did not all have a similar cultural attachment to the land, and there was no way they could collectively prove such a connection.

But he left the door open for future claims, saying he believed some native title did exist on the area of land, but it would be …

The following article was written by Arthur Manuel, and published in The First Nations Strategic Bulletin (see below)

Human Rights: Recognition and Coexistence of Aboriginal Land Rights in Canada

In order to better understand the federal Comprehensive Claims Policy, the British Columbia Treaty Process, Negotiation Loan Funding, the Agreements-in-Principles and the 3 initialed Final Agreements of the Lheidli T’enneh, Tsawwassen and Maa-nulth, it is important to know that regardless of wherever you go there will always be collaborators who will let Human Rights violations happen.

The Federal Comprehensive Claims Policy should not only be rejected based on the ‘common law’ recognition of Aboriginal …

The following was written by Hillary Bain Lindsay for The Dominion.

On January 1, 2007, the people of Six Nations arrived at their Council House, and walked inside.

The event did not make media headlines, but the significance of the day was not lost on those crowded into the long line of cars, bearing Iroquois Confederacy and Unity flags, that lead up to the Council House.

“Even before Canada declared itself a country, we had a meeting place down here for traditional governance,” says Janie Jamison, one of the spokespeople for Six Nations. For generations, Chiefs representing the Confederacy Council gathered in …