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Amazon People’s Unique Fishing Customs Could Be At An End

The Enawene Nawe in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state, recently began the Yãkwa, an important seasonal custom that provides the... Read More

Panama: Indigenous, Labor, Environmental Groups Need Your Support

Indigenous Peoples, environmental groups and labor organizations across Panama have turned to the international community for support in their... Read More

Underreported Struggles #42, September 2010

In this month’s Underreported Struggles: 20 thousand peasants mobilize for agrarian reform in Indonesia; Indigenous Peoples from Brazil, Peru... Read More

Six Dozen Guarani ‘Prisoners on Their Own Land’

More than six dozen indigenous people from the Guarani Kaiowá Y’poí in Brazil have effectively been turned into prisoners... Read More

Underreported Struggles #38, May 2010

In this month’s Underreported Struggles: Eagle Rock Defenders camp ‘crushed’ by Police; Indigenous People call on FARC, army to... Read More

Call on authorities in Brazil to protect the Guarani People

The indigenous Guarani community of Kurussu Ambá is at grave risk of violence and destitution unless the Brazilian government... Read More

Brazil: Kayapo blockade heads into second month

It’s been exactly one month to the day since a group of Kayapo set up a ferry blockade across... Read More

Canada’s Goldcorp to be tried by the Permanent Peoples Tribunal

One of Canada’s most notorious mining companies, Goldcorp, will be tried this week in Madrid, Spain, by the Permanent... Read More

Underreported Struggles #37, April 2010

In this month’s Underreported Struggles: Paramilitaries attack peaceful caravan in Oaxaca; Kayan People win 12-year battle against oil palm;... Read More

Indigenous People issue warning of bloodshed over Amazon dam approval

Indigenous leaders have issued a warning that “bloodshed” is imminent now that Brazil has granted rights to build the... Read More

Underreported Struggles #35, February 2010

In this month’s Underreported Struggles: Indigenous People in Ecuador Call for a “Permanent Mobilzation”; 5,000 Dongria Kondh protest against... Read More

Join the Campaign in Defense of the Xingu River

The Brazilian Environmental Justice Network has launched an international campaign to demand President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva and... Read More

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Not to mention the fact that Indigenous Peoples have specific needs that settler populations generally do not posses, like requiring access to specific land areas to maintain culture, language, the...
It's true in a sense--we're all indigenous to somewhere--however, there are fundamental differences between populations who identify as "indigenous" and those who no longer follow a traditional way of life....
There is a need to recognize that all people are indigenous to this planet. We are one human race beholden to the mother that nurtures us. We must unite under...
Well, I think, unfortunately, passive complaints of PM Harper selling our land & water for basically nothing, are getting nowhere. Time to move up the ladder of complaining. Watch your...
It is instructive to see how mental, spiritual and physical health coincide in the indigenous philosophy, while the progressive view remains trapped in a treatment rather than preventive mode. It...
Kia ora, I would like to say unless they, ( those who say no more Full- Blooded Maori), know the whakapapa of every single Maori in Aotearoa, they should just...
Mohawk??I stand and prepared to back my people at any and all cost...
I have worked with, lived with, and been around Copala Triquis for the past 12 years, and have researched extensively the political oppression in teh region - ever since the...

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