The Wampis Nation strikes back against deforestation

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Uphold human rights of Indigenous peoples, allow traditional knowledge to lead land decisions, U.N. delegates say

The Tacuara'i want to return home after being violently evicted from their ancestral territory

Tensions are rising between states and indigenous peoples

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Trump’s unflagging interest in Pipeline construction

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Bolivia: Indigenous Seize Gas Pipeline

by John Ahni SchertowSeptember 5, 2006

This item comes from Weekly News Update on the Americas, No. 856, 8/27/06. www.americas.org During the week of Aug. 14, some 500 indigenous Guarani people began an occupation at the Parapeti station of the Yacuiba-Rio Grande gas pipeline (GASYRG) near Charagua, in the eastern Bolivian department of Santa Cruz, to demand that the Transierra company […]

COLUMBIA: Indigenous rights violated by state forces

by John Ahni SchertowSeptember 5, 2006

Following meetings with local spiritual and institutional indigenous authorities, the observers of the Mission in Support of the Kankuamo Indigenous People express a strong condemnation for the evident violations of human rights persistently made against the Kankuamo indigenous people in Colombia. After gathering direct testimonies from the families of men and women who have been […]

The dollars and sense of Shared Responsibility

by John Ahni SchertowSeptember 1, 2006

(Contributed by Derek Lane) NIT SPECIAL FEATURE, Issue 88: If you believe the Howard government’s figures – and we’ll explain a little later why you shouldn’t – then the Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination will spend almost its entire $97 million annual budget administering Shared Responsibility Agreements that have been signed with Aboriginal communities. And […]

Navajo Nation, Cuba negotiate trade agreement

by John Ahni SchertowAugust 31, 2006

by: Brenda Norrell / Indian Country Today HAVANA – The general manager of Navajo Agricultural Products Industries, a member of the first trade delegation to Cuba since Fidel Castro temporarily stepped down, has signed a letter of intent to sell food products to Cuba. ”We are honored that our products will help feed the Cuban […]

EZLN: We Are Preparing Our Next Steps

by John Ahni SchertowAugust 29, 2006

Words of the Sixth Comission of the EZLN for the Second Indigenous Gathering of the Yucatan Peninsula By Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, The Other Mexico SECOND PENINSULAR INDIGENOUS REUNION Candelaria, Campeche, Mexico August 2006 Compañeras and compañeros: We thank the Peninsular Indigenous Coordination and the National Indigenous Congress, who have given us a space for this […]

Postpone the passage of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act Bill

by John Ahni SchertowAugust 29, 2006

(contributed by Derek Lane) I found another article at ENIAR – http://www.eniar.org/news/hreoc11.html which is admittedly old (before the legislation was passed) but by a bloke who seems to know the reality and puts it quite well… 11 August 2006 – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma has grave concerns about the […]

Oglala Sioux President Alex White Plume sees the old ways as better

by John Ahni SchertowAugust 28, 2006

Posted: August 28, 2006 by: David Melmer / Indian Country Today STURGIS, S.D. – Alex White Plume, president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and a traditional Lakota, has a history of doing things differently, or rather, doing things the traditional way. White Plume focuses on his tiospaye, extended family, and works to create a solid […]

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