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Colombia: Court suspends eco-tourism project in Tayrona National Park

A controversial eco-tourism project was halted last week in Colombia’s Tayrona National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona) for... Read More

Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai’i

Millions of tourists flock to Hawai’i each and every year, to spend a few short days basking in the... Read More

Buried Voices

Buried Voices provides insight into the Ohlone, Miwok and Yokut Peoples’ ongoing struggle to protect one of their most... Read More

Victory! The struggle to protect Koongarra uranium is nearly over

There was a major victory this week in the struggle to protect the Koongarra uranium deposit in Australia’s Northern... Read More

Close to our Ancestors: Gabon forest peoples map their land

In 2002, El Hajj Omar Bongo Ondimba, then President of the Republic of Gabon, signed into existence thirteen National... Read More

Survival in the “Modern” World: The Compromise

Video journalist Maggie Padlewska reports on the current situation facing two Embera communities in Panama, who find themselves today... Read More

Peru: Traditional Indigenous Way of Life Threatened by Proposed Road in Purús

As the struggle to defend the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory And National Park (TIPNIS) in Bolivia lingers on, another... Read More

Kenya Government ‘Punishes’ Samburu After Court Blocks New National Park

A Samburu community’s struggle to hold on to their ancestral land and their grazing rights on a property known... Read More

Flooding Our Future: Megadams of the Peruvian Amazon

The Indigenous Peoples of the Ene-Tambo river basin are now facing an uncertain future, thanks to a series of... Read More

Belize government defies Supreme Court ruling; grants oil company permit to Maya lands

The government of Belize has quietly granted an American oil company drilling rights to protected Maya lands inside the... Read More

Bolivia: Indigenous peoples mobilize against highway through the rainforest

Indigenous peoples in the eastern lowlands of Bolivia are set to begin a 600-km march to Bolivia’s capital city... Read More

Underreported Struggles #51, June 2011

In this month’s Underreported Struggles: 1000 Indigenous people in Colombia warned that they would be killed if they tried... 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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