DTE Special Issue / Oct 99: The International Alliance is a network of indigenous peoples organisations in africa, Asia and the Americas. It was was set up http://dte.gn.apc.org/SIngo.htm
Extractions: Down to Earth Special Issue, October 1999 The 1999 Congress was the result of a three year period of planning and organising involving indigenous peoples' groups and local and national NGOs which had supported indigenous communities' fight for their rights over a number of years. By the mid-1990s there were an increasing number of opportunities for indigenous peoples to express their own views at international forums and to contribute to policy decisions by important multilateral development banks like the World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB), yet the indigenous peoples of Indonesia had no organisation through which they could speak to the international community in a truly representative way. Furthermore, there was no body which drew indigenous peoples together at the national level, so they could press their case for a greater say in their future with the Indonesian government. In the words of one activist "Those who oppress indigenous people are organised. If the indigenous peoples themselves are not organised, how can they win?" In general, central and local government efforts to supplant adat systems with a uniform system of control have eroded the power of traditional community leaders and prevented customary practices which protected local culture, land rights and natural resources. Nevertheless, many indigenous communities in Indonesia have maintained their integrity through strong traditional institutions and customary laws. Among the best known are the Baduy people of West Java, who do not even permit participation in national censuses or general elections. In recent years, a small number of regional indigenous alliances had grown up within Indonesia, such as AMA in West Kalimantan and JAGAT in East Nusa Tenggara.
ENVIRONMENT-RIGHTS: US Groups Pledge To Continue Defense Of U'wa To subscribe, please contact us at africa, Asia, Caribbean, Europe, Latin as courageous defenders of the environment and the rights of indigenous peoples. http://www.oneworld.org/ips2/mar99/19_57_076.html
Extractions: To subscribe , please contact us at: Africa Asia Caribbean Europe ... North America By Danielle Knight WASHINGTON, Mar. 8 (IPS) - Environment and indigenous rights groups pledged Monday to carry on the work of three US activists who were killed in Colombia last week while on a mission to help the U'wa people. ''We are grieved and shocked by the tragic news,'' said a statement by a coalition of organisations including the Amazon Coalition and the Rainforest Action Network, a California-based environmental watchdog. ''Their deaths will not be in vain,'' they said, vowing to continue the work of the U'wa Defense Working Group, an organisation founded by Terence Freitas, one of the murdered activists. The bodies of Freitas, Ingrid Washinawatok and Lahe'ena'e Gay were found in Venezuelan territory on Friday, 30 metres from the Colombian border, bound and blindfolded, and riddled with bullets. The activists, member of the Hawaii-based Pacific Cultural Conservancy International, had been invited by the U'wa leaders for a week long visit when they were kidnapped.
Extractions: This piece is based on the process of forging links and building a movement of solidarity between immigrant/ refugee communities and the Kahniankehaka aka Mohawk community in the Occupied Territories of Montreal) In numerous and lengthy phone conversations and meetings at the âWhite Houseâ (a youth center) in Kahnawake between members of Mohawk Eastern Society (MES) and No One is Illegal, we sought to explore links and overcome several tensions inherent in our work. Questions that had been lingering and avoided for over six months were finally confronted in the organizing of the No One is Illegal March (which took place on July 27, 2003). The callout for the march read âA celebration of resistance- The No One Is Illegal March will focus on the frontline struggles of indigenous peoples, immigrants and refugees and demonstrate our clear opposition to war and occupation, whether in Iraq or Palestine, Colombia or the Philippines, in Chiapas or on Turtle Island.â Discussion centered around two fundamental questions âWhat is the link between immigrant struggles and indigenous peoples beyond just a seemingly common enemy? While we can understand the suffering of displaced and colonized people in the South, how can indigenous communities in the North tangibly support people who settle on our land and further entrench our ongoing dispossession from our homes?â
Africa:Forests Under Threat indigenous peoples Declaration Declaration by the indigenous peoples of Central africa to the 2nd Conference on Central african Moist Forest Ecosystems http://www.wrm.org.uy/countries/Africa/trouble2.html
Extractions: Publications Africa: Forests under threat index Africa: forests under threat On analysing the situation of forests in Africa, it is first necessary to begin by clarifying some false assumptions. The first has to do with their location. On looking at maps focussing on the subject, a large green area covering the tropical region of the continent will be seen. The impression it gives is that forests only exist in that area. However, this is not so, as almost all African countries have part of their territory covered by some type of forest, from Mali to South Africa. Clearly the forests of Mali and South Africa are not the same as the gigantic forest masses of Gabon or the Congo, but this does not mean that they are less important, either from an ecological or from a social standpoint. The fact is that Africa possesses an enormous diversity of forest ecosystems, extending over a major part of the continent. The second assumption is related to the state of these forests. Here the advertised image does not focus on the tropics, but on the arid, semiarid and savannah regions, where the role of impoverished populations eliminating forests to increase areas for their crops or for cattle-raising, while cutting down the few trees left to provide firewood is underscored. The generalisation of this image is also totally erroneous.
The Last Survivors indigenous peoples and environmentalists are discussed in Stevens (1997). Daniel Nettle is an anthropologist who has conducted extensive fieldwork in africa. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~romaine/The Last Survivors.htm
Extractions: The Last Survivors How would it feel to be the last speaker of your language on earth? Most English speakers could scarcely imagine the possibility: Marie Smith, the last Eyak Indian of Cordova, Alaska, explained how she felt at being the only full-blooded Eyak and the only remaining speaker of her language: I dont know why its me, why Im the one. I tell you, it hurts. It really hurts. . . . My father was the last Eyak chief, and Ive taken his place. Im the chief now, and I have to go down to Cordova to try to stop the clear-cutting on our land. (Davidson, 1993) Like many indigenous people, Marie Smith has a heavy burden to bear. She is engaged in a struggle to defend the ecological integrity of her homeland from outsiders who want to exploit its natural resources. It is a battle not just about the land, but about life and death. At stake is the right of a people to survive and to maintain their distinctive cultural and linguistic identity. Where people have lost their traditional authority over their land or have been forced from it, large scale transformations of the environment have occurred, accompanied by cultural and linguistic decimation. The Penan people of northeast Sarawak are nowadays lucky to find a monkey to eat because the loggers have scared them away; trucks and bulldozers have muddied the waters, and poisons in the bark of fallen trees have killed the fish. Like the once-thriving forests in which they lived, the Penan, too, are disappearing. In 1970, there were 13,000; two decades later, there were fewer than 500. Soon there could be none.
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Extractions: A B C D ... Z Abagusii see Gusii Kenya Aban see Shor Abandoned settlements Abashevo culture Abbasids see also Islamic empire Abduction Abelam Abenaki North American Indians (Algonquian) Northeast Abetalipoproteinaemia Abidjan Ability Abkhazia Abnormalities ABO blood-group system Abolitionists Abominable snowman see Yeti Aboriginal studies Abortion Abrasion Absahrokee language see Crow language Absaraka language see Crow language Absaroka language see Crow language Absaroke language see Crow language Absolutism see Despotism Abu Hureyra site Abusir site Abydos site Academic controversies see also Scientific controversies Academic freedom Academic publishing see Scholarly publishing Academic status Academic writing Academics Acadians (Louisiana) see Cajuns Accents and accentuation Accidents see also Traffic accidents Acclimatisation Accra Accreditation Acculturation see also Assimilation Acetylcholine receptors Achaemenid dynasty (559-330 BC) Achaemenid empire Ache see Guayaki: Acheulian culture Achik see Garo Achinese language Achuar Achumawi Acidification Acquiescence Acquired immune deficiency syndrome see AIDS Acronyms Action theory Acupuncture Adam and Eve Adamawa emirate Adapidae see also Notharctus Adaptation Adat Adena culture Adhesives Adipocere Adisaiva see Adisaivar Adisaivar Adivasi Adjectives Adjustment (psychology) Administration see also Government, Management, etc.
15 Pre-scramble Period station and activities would not interfere with their labour supply and with their techniques of coercing the indigenous people. Trade in africa traders were http://husky1.stmarys.ca/~wmills/course316/15Pre-scramble.html
Extractions: - the interest was both commercial/economic and intellectual. The curiosity about the world was also resulting in the development of science (i.e., systematic observation and experimentation); Intellectual curiosity and economic interests were often interlinked; e.g., the foundations of biology were often linked with attempts to improve agriculture and farming.
Our 'Zuni Connection' Grows Mandela and ended their studies of africa by performing an described the project, The First People Project has of which is the Global indigenous Art Exchange. http://www.iearn.org/hgp/aeti/aeti-1997/zuni-connection.html
Extractions: Farnosh Family, Cold Spring Harbor High School Over the past two years, the children and teachers of A:Shiwi Elementary School in Zuni, New Mexico have corresponded with students here at Cold Spring Harbor High School, New York. Together, we have participated in the "Prejudice Project" that Cathy proposed last year to the <iearn.tolerance> conference. The children (ages 6-9) with the help of their teachers Cathy Bullock, Juanita Edaakie, and Pam Tsadiasi, have learned about acts of hatred, not only toward Zuni people, but also toward South Africans during the Apartheid, and toward Jews during the Holocaust and afterwards. Their studies have also included some of the people who have taken a stand against such injustices and tyranny. Pam Tsadiasi, and Students This year, their elementary school focus was on the dangers of apartheid and the lives of indigenous people. For the first part of the year, students read literature that dealt with apartheid like Journey To Johannesburg by Beverly Naidoo. Through this book, students learned about the passbooks that were necessary for blacks to have in order to move around the country. Here are some of the comments the children made after reading: "They had to use a pass in South Africa like we use a pass to go to the restroom. Except here nobody stops you or arrests you."
Voices From Africa The Masai pastoralists of East africa have lost large tracts of land to game He says because of this growing industry, indigenous people are either pushed onto http://www.unsystem.org/ngls/documents/publications.en/voices.africa/number6/vfa
Extractions: Number 6: Sustainable Development Part 2 Contents: INTRODUCTION While the African continent faces many of the same problems which trouble its northern neighbours, these problems are compounded by African's closeness to their natural environment. Poverty, overcrowding, pollution, soil degradation, over- and under development;what sets these apart in Africa is the intensity with which they affect a continent already stretched to its survival limits. In Voices from Africa 5, African authors from a variety of backgrounds expressed their own visions of their continent's march towards sustainable development. This volume, the sixth in the series, takes a further look at the environmental state of Africa and the continent's attempts not to stray from sustainable development despite crushing constraints. The book's first article explains how, to deal with managing the environment, Ghana has set up a framework, the National Environmental Policy. Mike Anane examines how his country is working to come to grips with its legacy of environmental destruction and its future of sustainable development. He looks at the birth of the environmental movement in Ghana, and the government's environmental role. Part of the problem, he says, is lack of environmental awareness.
LiP | Feature | An Indigenous View Of North America | Print Version you to consider that the longterm issues of indigenous people s rights to of the main strategies we used to support the people of South africa s right to http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featladuke_68_p.htm
Extractions: RETHINK YOUR GEOGRAPHY a little bit, set aside your thinking, and try to think about North America from an indigenous perspective. In doing so, what I'd like to ask is that you think about it in terms of islands in a continent. I live on one island, White Earth reservation. It's thirty-six miles by thirty-six miles. It's a rather medium-sized reservation, as they go in North America. That's one island. A little bit west of me is Pine Ridge, a slightly larger reservation. Rosebud. Blackfeet. Crow. Cheyenne Navaho. Hopi. Some of the larger islands are further north. When you go north of the fiftieth parallel in Canada, which is somewhere a little north of Edmonton, you'll find that the majority of the population is native. 85% of the people who live north of the fiftieth parallel in Canada are native people. In terms of land occupancy, we retain a large portion of land in that region. How that is perhaps best reflected is in a place called Northwest Territories. Northwest Territories, a couple of years ago, was split into two territories. One of those territories is now called Nunavat because the people who live there are Inuit. They are the people who are the political representatives. They are the administrators of the school boards. They are the firemen. They are the doctors, the physicians. They have a form of self-governance in Nunavat where the majority of decisions are made by Inuit people. That area, Nunavat, is, including land and water, five times the size of Texas. It is a large area of land. It is the size of the Indian sub-continent.
Problems Of The Twenty-First Century and continuing in the present, indigenous lands in africa, the Americas, Asia and the South Pacific, were stolen at the point of the gun. The people were hunted http://bernard.pitzer.edu/~hfairchi/essays/21stCent.html
Extractions: At the turn of the last century, WEB DuBois wrote, The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line,the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. Today, we can write, The problem of the twenty-first century remains the problem of raceracism, race relations, and racial exploitationin virtually every corner of the globe. The history of the West of Europe and the Americas is a history of racial and ethnic exploitation. It is history of murder, rape, mutilation, enslavement and human and environmental degradation. The great accumulation of wealth in Europe and the Americas (especially in North America) was fueled by the unrestrained killing of indigenous peoples, the enslavement of Africans, the stealing of land and resources, and the subjugation of women. It is a great paradox that, today, ethnic minority groups are urged to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, when virtually the entirety of the worlds resources has been eaten by the capitalist expansion of the West. Multi-national corporations, the product of 400 years of exploitation, have deeded the world to themselves. In a vain attempt at self-congratulation, the winners of the war for land and resources have created an ideology of meritocracy; the idea that merit is properly rewarded. But on closer inspection, we should recognize that the true definition of merit is best contained within the phrase, might makes right.
Extractions: Brazil's population includes the largest number of people of African descent in the entire Western Hemisphere. How did Africans get to Brazil, a country in South America ? As in Mexico and India, in Brazil, Africans were transported to the country as slaves. Here, slavery lasted longer than in any other country in the New World. When the Portuguese arrived in Brazil in 1500, 2 - 5 million indigenous Brazilians were living in the territory. To learn more about Portuguese colonization, click here . The Indians and the Portuguese battled for land, and the Indians resisted against the Portuguese as they tried to enslave them. The growing Portuguese presence in Brazil after 1530 brought with it more disease and caused an increase in the number of slave raids. Many of the Indians were killed and many others were forced to migrate into the interior of the country. Teacher Note : In some countries in Latin America, the indigenous population do not like being call "Indian." However, in Brazil "Indian" is an acceptable designation for the indigenous people.
SciDev.Net the country s economy at the expense of indigenous people s rights. In contrast, some parts of the previously colonised world, such as africa, the Caribbean http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/index.cfm?fuseaction=printarticle&dossier=7&polic
Cultural Survival IWGIA was formed by a group of anthropologists who had heard disturbing reports of the annihilation of indigenous peoples in South America and decided to fight http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/csq/csq_article.cfm?id=00000123-000
BioTech IMC | CBD: Access And Benefit Sharing Since 1994, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has been promising benfit sharing to indigenous peoples in return for access to biodiversity (for http://www.biotechimc.org/es/2004/02/2474.shtml
Extractions: "We are lacking equity. There is to much access and too little equity." Since 1994, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has been promising "benfit sharing" to Indigenous Peoples in return for access to biodiversity (for example to collect samples for pharmceutical production, bioprospecting). During these ten years, Indigenous Peoples and farming communities have worked long and hard to realize this goal. Governments' response has come in the form of the so-called Bonn Guidelines . These guidelines turned the CBD into a global enclosure system instead of a benefit sharing mechanism and they have undermined the historic resilience of Indigenous Peoples by encouraging curtailment of their customary system of resource-exchange.
Some Of Tribal Link’s Accomplishments, 1993-2001 and Related Intolerance that was held in South africa in September 2001 and a preparatory consultation on the Permanent Forum of indigenous People. http://www.tribal-link.org/TLFaccomp.htm
Extractions: 1992 - The seed for the creation of Tribal Link was planted in the course of proparations for the June 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro (also know as the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development). Tribal Link played a major role in documenting and publicizing the First World Conference of Indigenous Peoples at Kari Oka, held just before the Earth Summit, which helped focus attention on the importance of indigenous people, their knowledge and culture, and the extent of threats to their survival. In October 1993, in honor of the International Year of the World's Indigenous People and United Nations Day, Tribal Link, in collaboration with the UN Information Center and the US Congressional Caucus on Human Rights coordinated an exhibit of William Coupon's (who shot over 100 portraits of indigenous leaders at the Kari-Oca. These portraits also appeared in Life magazine) photographs in the Russell Rotunda of the U.S. Senate. The exhibit was followed by a reception with Rigoberta Menchu Tum, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, as Guest of Honor, and included presentations by Congressman John Edward Porter and Tom Lantos, Co-Chairmen of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, and Senator Daniel Akaka from Hawaii. The event was attended by approximately 500 guests. Senator Akaka's participation led to his sponsoring a successful Bill on Indigenous People (H.R. 510) that passed in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
