Education Corner - Indigenous Peoples: International Year Of Freshwater 2003 22k The inhabitants of a small village in chile, after having indigenous peoples UN Cyberschoolbus Website dedicated to teaching students and teachers about http://www.wateryear2003.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=5549&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=2
Extractions: Since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, environmental and water-related conferences have often highlighted the role of indigenous peoples in their proposals for action they detain a precious knowledge, and for centuries have been developing ways of living in harmony with their environment, and as such they have little by little been recognized, as major players in ensuring sustainable development at the local level. Yet indigenous people still have to struggle for their rights over the water resources they have been using and protecting for generations.
OneWorld News Service - Indigenous Peoples chile/indigenous PEOPLE Fears of Violent End to indigenous Land Occupation.The chile/indigenous peoples A dam of destruction Building http://www.oneworld.org/news/world/indigenous.html
Extractions: From Environment News Service (ENS), featured on the OneWorld News Service 17 May 1999 INDIGENOUS RIGHTS/US: Whale hunt piles pressure on prosecutor A prosecutor in Washington state is seeking federal help to deal with a battery of legal actions against a controversial whale hunt which began this week.
Indigenous Tremembe people of Almofala, Miskito, Sumu, and Rama, Tupay Katari, indigenous Nationalitiesof Ecuador, Mapuche in chile, indigenous peoples and Nations of http://globalcircle.net/00indigenous.htm
Extractions: "I did not know how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream... "The nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead."
Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights explicitly denied, and even now the chilean Constitution does not recognize the distinctpolitical and cultural identities of indigenous peoples within chile. http://160.94.193.60/indig/reports/mapuche.htm
Extractions: The Mapuche People of South America Background For most of the time since independence, Chile has pursued policies explicitly meant to take control of Mapuche territories. The political, cultural and social independence of the Mapuche was explicitly denied, and even now the Chilean Constitution does not recognize the distinct political and cultural identities of indigenous peoples within Chile. However, in 1993 a law was passed to recognize, protect and support indigenous peoples (Law 19.253 for the Protection, Promotion and Development of Indigenous People). There are five main foci of the law: political participation, education, land rights, cultural rights, and development rights. These are meant to address the rights and freedoms of indigenous peoples as set by UN Convention No. 169: The Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention. Current Struggles Hydroelectric development: Perhaps one of the most important struggles for the Mapuche is the movement against hydro-electric development in their territories, on the Bío Bío River. In the Bío Bío project, the energy company ENDESA, S.A. (owned by Spanish parent company Enersis Group) plans to build six dams along the Bío Bío River for hydro-electric power. The project began with the Pangue dam, and construction of the second dam (Ralco) is currently underway. The Mapuche were not included in the planning for this project. In fact, two Mapuche representatives in the Chilean government were dismissed because of their resistance to the project. After their dismissal, the president appointed a non-Mapuche to the position, and the project was approved.
7th Indigenous Film And Video Festival Of The Americas The indigenous peoples Of chile invite Producers, filmmakers and organizationsinterested in indigenous audiovisual communication http://www.nativenetworks.si.edu/clacpi7th.htm
Extractions: The Indigenous Peoples Of Chile invite: Producers, filmmakers and organizations interested in indigenous audio-visual communication and indigenous issues throughout the hemisphere, to participate in the 7th Indigenous Film and Video Festival of the Americas , which will take place June 18 - 24 in the city of Santiago de Chile. We invite you to share our cultures, experiences and projects, and look forward to learning about your own projects and points of view. We are convinced that indigenous organizations and communities need to generate their own proposals, agreement mechanisms and forms of dialogue and exchange through media. At the Festival, we hope to share communicational strategies involving indigenous communities, and design common working plans among indigenous communicators and organizations. Through the Festival, the host organizations are seeking to generate access to new audio-visual communication technologies for the use and benefit of Native peoples.
Untitled Document At odds over chile s indigenous peoples. By GONZALO BAEZA. SANTIAGO, chile,May 2 (UPI) chile s native peoples are once more at a crossroads. http://www.caymannetnews.com/Archive/Archive Articles/May 2003/Issue 397 Tue/At
Extractions: This was never more evident than this week at the Chilean Senate, when in a heated voting session Wednesday, legislators rejected an initiative from the administration of socialist President Ricardo Lagos to grant constitutional recognition to the country's indigenous people. Rightist political parties contended that granting a specific legal recognition to the indigenous people would amount to fostering divisions amid the Chilean society. The Lagos government had deployed an intense lobby effort in the Senate to offset the opposition, spearheaded by Secretary General to the President Francisco Huenchumilla, himself a direct Mapuche descendant. Huenchumilla bitterly denounced how the government coalition which has been ruling Chile since the country's return to democracy in 1990 had failed to keep its promises to the Mapuche and other ethnic groups striving for recognition. Indigenous people have been waiting for 13 years for a decision from Congress," said Huenchumilla, adding "this is the time to make a statement on this issue."
SerIndigena - Pueblos Originarios De Chile Documents and Bibliography. Links Directory with more than 300 usefullinks to a lot of indigenous peoples sites. The links are http://www.beingindigenous.org/regions/help/welcome_tour.htm
BeingIndigenous - De Chile and Bibliography. In the Links Directory you will find more than 300useful links to a lot of indigenous peoples sites. The links http://www.beingindigenous.org/regions/resources/resources.htm
MPRI - LIBRARY The objective of this program is to achieve the levels of recognitionand respect of the indigenous peoples rights in chile. One http://www.iipm-mpri.org/biblioteca/index.cfm?action=listar&by=descriptor&cod=56
MPRI - LINKS Cultural Indígena de Santiago is the headquarter of the Indianist national Coordinator,the only organization in chile that groups indigenous peoples with non http://www.iipm-mpri.org/enlaces/index.cfm?action=listar&by=cat&cod=18&lang=eng
Andes Tours:Chile central valley. The lush Lake District to the south is the homelandof chile s indigenous peoples, the Araucarias. Also part of http://www.andestours.com/chile.htm
Extractions: MAGAZINE i ARCHEOLOGY The Inca Trail I The Inca Trail II The Purification Trail The Sacred Valley of the Incas A stroll around Cusco Ollantaytambo ... The Royal Tombs of Sipan i ECOLOGY Peru- Land of Butterflies Peruvian Orchids Parts of an Orchid Gallery of Orchids ... Birdwatching in Perú I Birdwatching in Perú II Lake Titicaca The Jungles of Manu The Coast of Ica Ica: Ocean of Sand The Vicuña Trujillo i ADVENTURE Manu Ayacucho Urubamba, river rafting The Amazon ... Tumbes i PHOTO GALLERY LEARN SPANISH Currency: 1 Chilean peso (Ch$) Chile in Brief For anyone who has ever been fascinated by geography, the long, impossibly thin line of Chile has always produced a tiny moment of astonishment. Chile stretches over 4 300 km (2700 mi.) along the southwestern coast of South America, a distance roughly the same as San Francisco to New York, or Moscow to Lisbon. At the same time, its width never exceeds 240 km (150 mi.), making the country more than eighteen times longer than its widest point. The most obvious factor in Chile's remarkable slenderness is the massive, virtually impassable wall of the Andes; a mountain range that is still rising and contains more than fifty active volcanic peaks
Amnesty International Report 2002 - Americas - CHILE had been thrown into the sea, rivers and lakes in chile. indigenous peoples Longstandingland conflicts in southern regions generated increasing tension http://web.amnesty.org/web/ar2002.nsf/amr/chile?Open
Mapuche International Link/English | News indigenous leaders criticised the report as colonialist and assimilationist becauseit failed to propose selfdetermination by chile s native peoples MORE. http://www.mapuche-nation.org/english/news.htm