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From Ecuador to Nigeria to the Gulf of Mexico

Oil industry sycophants, with their dollar store logic, are quick to tell us that oil spills are one of... Read More

World Rainforest Movement, Bulletin 152

The World Rainforest Movement’s latest Bulletin, Women on the March, offers several unheard stories on the struggles of indigenous,... Read More

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada is no steward of the land

The Auditor General of Canada, Ms. Sheila Fraser, has singled out Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) for its... Read More

Shell Bribes its way out of responsibility

Shell’s decision to pay out $15 million dollars to the Ogoni People this week has been hailed an important... Read More

Underreported Struggles #24, March 2009

In this month’s Underreported Struggles: Alarming levels of arsenic found near Goldcorp mine; 25,000 Indigenous people March in Oaxaca;... Read More

Women raise their voices against tree plantations

The monoculture pulp and paper industry has great impact on local communities, who must often bare witness to the... Read More

Nigeria: Where Tires Grow on Stolen Land

In May 2007, the transnational company Michelin, the world’s second largest producer of tires, was granted rights to more... Read More

Underreported Struggles #17, August 2008

In this month’s Underreported Struggles: Indigenous peoples in Mindanao call for autonomy, 65 Communities Declare Victory in Peru, Chavez... Read More

The people of Nigeria versus Shell

The people of Nigeria versus Shell is a short 5 minute video that discusses a new legal effort against... Read More

Underreported Struggles #16, July 2008

Indigenous peoples and farmers faced multiple attacks in Guatemala last month; while in Brazil, the government began preparing to... Read More

China’s Colonizing Africa, While We Talk Charity

“From Nigeria in the north, to Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Angola in the west, across Chad and Sudan in... Read More

The Ogoni Call For An Independant State

January 4th of this year marked the 16th anniversary of the day more than 300,000 Ogonis participated in “a... 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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Taiaiake Alfred
Professor of Indigenous Governance at UVIC and author of Wasáse
Hair of the Dog