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I’m happy to say that I uploaded the intro to the Oneidas For Democracy video to Youtube… It’s not the greatest quality, but it gets the job done…

Background: As you may know, the Oneidas are one of Six Nations that make up the Haudenosaunee Confederacy….

Ray Halbritter, the CEO of TurningStone Casino and Indian Country Today — and one of the richest people in New York State, unilaterally assumed power over what’s often called the “Oneida Nation of New York” (but it’s not really a Nation. The Oneida People are the Nation. This is a community) …

Zapatistas Announce Intercontinental Summit
To be hosted by the Yaqui of Vicam in Sonora, Mexico
Oct. 11 — 14, 2007

By Brenda Norrell - RANCHO EL PENASCO, Sonora, Mexico – Indigenous Peoples from Mexico and the United States met with Subcomandante Marcos and Zapatista Comandantes to establish the Indigenous Intercontinental Conference for 2007.

The Intercontinental gathering will be held in the Yaqui community of Vicam in Rio Yaqui, Sonora, on the northwest coast, Oct. 11 – 14, 2007.
Comandante David, Mayan from Chiapas, welcomed the world’s Indigenous Peoples to the intercontinental gathering.

“At this moment, we want to let the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico, Canada, …

From Nordis BAGUIO CITY (Apr. 18) - “Long live international solidarity!” hailed more than 70 delegates from 10 countries including the Philippines, as they gathered for the opening program of the founding conference of the Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network (APIYN).

The delegates, mostly youth from Japan, India, Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia, Russia, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Thailand and the Philippines are here for a five-day conference held at the various universities and venues here. The conference aims to further unite and uphold the rights of indigenous youth.

The APIYN was organized in 2002 and started …

As mentioned on this page, Pit River Tribe members along with supporters were to deliver an eviction notice to Calpine Energy Corporation on January 29, to demand “they drop their decades-long attempt to build polluting power plants in the Medicine Lake Highlands near Mount Shasta…” See below for a video, the delivery of the Eviction Notice.

Updates
On 2/21/07 the US Department of Justice (DOJ), acting on behalf of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Forest Service (FS), requested that the 9th Circuit Court review the issues involving the …

Cucapa camp report: The first month
detodos-paratodos.blogspot.com
March 28, 2007

Constructing Spaces for Exchanges
Together with the adherent family to The Other Campaign and members of the community it was decided to construct a space for the camp as well as for use of the community.

We first leveled an area of 40 by 45 meters using a tractor that by it’s age and condition didn’t provide the results we anticipated but it was good enough to be able to finish the rest by hand and then add a layer of 4 – 6 inches of sand to provide a cushion for those camping …

Alliances fight for Huichol land
Philip Burnham, ICT
March 26, 2007

NUEVA COLONIA, Mexico - When Indians lose land, conventional wisdom says, they never see it again. In central Mexico, a grass-roots organization is working to prove the old wisdom wrong.

The Jalisco Indigenous Groups Support Association assists central Mexican tribes in filing land claims and achieving economic self-sufficiency. AJAGI has devoted much of its attention to the Huichol, a people isolated in the western Sierra Madre who have lost land to loggers, planters, ranchers and narcotraffickers.

AJAGI founder Carlos Chavez described the delicate work of partnering with tribes: ”We don’t give them a …

Traditional chiefs meet in Sudan’s Rumbek to restore authority
By Manyang Mayom, www.anyuakmedia.com
March 15, 2007

50 traditional chiefs from the different part of the Lakes State are participating in the First conference traditional authorities in order to discuss the organization of the eroded traditional authorities.

For the first time since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), a conference for the traditional and local cheffery is held in the capital of the Lakes state to restore the authority of traditional chiefs and to rejuvenate support to culture and language and promotion of dialogue and peaceful coexistence amongst different communities.

Southern Sudan constitution …