NATIVE-L (December 1995): Re: Siberian Indigenous Peoples If you want to know more about this, ask those, who attended this year smeeting of the UNWorking group on indigenous peoples. Our sami teacher was http://bioc09.uthscsa.edu/natnet/archive/nl/9512/0131.html
Indigenous People Of Russia Publication Announcement sami Potatoes offers a shared Canadian-sami vision of Northernpeoples in Russia Excerpt There are 30 indigenous peoples living in http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/russia.html
Saami Of Scandinavia for Rights of indigenous peoples. On this site you will find information about thecentre and its activities. You will also find reports on sami rights and on http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/sami.html
Extractions: By Veli-Pekka Lehtola The Sami: Reindeer People of Alaska The Yupiit Piciryarait Museum in Bethel, AK has asked the Saami Baiki Foundation of Oakland, CA to prepare an exhibit called "The Sami: Reindeer People of Alaska" to commemorate the history and contributions of the Sami ("Lapp") herders in Alaska. The project has just been awarded a planning grant from the Alaska Humanities Forum. Who-Am-I? Program Olof T Johansson homepage Excerpt: The history of the Sami people has been one of colonisation, missionising, prohibitions, sanctions and forced assimilation. However, our history has also been characterised by increased awareness of our cultural identity, increased self-respect, the fight for recognition and for our rights, and also the struggle to be allowed to take responsibility for the development of the Sami community. If the Sami culture is to survive we must guard its values and protect its resources. Saami College
INDIGENOUS PERSON FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA CLAIMED IN US GOVERNMENT at the Beijing Women s Conference, sami indigenous women from the Nordic countriesadded their voice to the dozens of indigenous peoples organizations that http://www.spunk.org/library/colon/sp001144.txt
Extractions: * INDIGENOUS PERSON FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA CLAIMED IN US GOVERNMENT PATENT * "Another major step down the road to the commodification of life" says Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) Director Pat Mooney. * RAFI moves to take the life patenting issue to the World Court. * Patenting Indigenous People In an unprecedented move, the United States Government has issued itself a patent on a foreign citizen. On March 14, 1995, an indigenous man of the Hagahai people from Papua New Guinea's remote highlands ceased to own his genetic material. While the rest of the world is seeking to protect the knowledge and resources of indigenous people, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is patenting them. "This patent is another major step down the road to the commodification of life. In the days of colonialism, researchers went after indigenous people's resources and studied their social organizations and customs. But now, in biocolonial times, they are going after the people themsleves" says Pat Roy Mooney, RAFI's Executive Director, who is at The Hague investigating prospects for a World Court challenge to the patenting of human genetic material. The Hagahai, who number a scant 260 persons and only came into consistent contact with the outside world in 1984, now find their genetic material - the very core of their physical identity - the property of the United States Government. The same patent application is pending in 19 other countries. Though one of the "inventors,"resident in Papua New Guinea, apparently signed an agreement giving a percentage of any royalties to the Hagahai, the patent makes no concrete provision for the Hagahai to receive any compensation for becoming the property of the US Government.. Indeed, the Hagahai are likely to continue to suffer threats to their very survival from disease and other health problems brought by outsiders. RAFI's Jean Christie has recently returned to Australia after consultations with the governments of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands (one of whose citizens is also subject to claims in a related US Government patent application). On her return from Port Moresby and Honiara, Christie said "This outrageous patent has provoked anger in the Pacific and is a matter of deep concern worldwide." In response to 1993 investigations by the Government of the Solomon Islands and RAFI, NIH's Jonathan Friedlander (Physical Anthropology Program Director) wrote to the Solomon Islands Ambassador to the United Nations, allaying their concerns by saying that the patent applications "will likely be abandoned entirely or not allowed." Contrary to Friedlander's indication, in the course of routine research prior to Christie's trip to the Pacific RAFI discovered that the patent was issued 6 months ago. Linked to the "Vampire Project"? The first-ever patent of an indigenous person comes as an international group of scientists are embarking on the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP), which aims to draw blood and tissue samples from as many indigenous groups in the world as possible. While the Hagahai are not specifically mentioned in the draft "hit list" of the HGDP dubbed the "vampire project" by its opponents worldwide it has targeted over 700 indigenous groups, including 41 from Papua New Guinea, for "sampling" by researchers. Friedlander, who wrote that the patent application would likely be withdrawn, participated in the development of the HGDP and was among those at its founding meeting. Within weeks of the patent's issue, Friedlander returned the Pacific on business related to the collection of blood samples. At the same time, indigenous people and NGOs from across the Pacific are working on the implementation of a "Lifeforms Patent-Free Pacific Treaty." As recently as last week's UNESCO Bioethics Committee meeting, HGDP Director Dr. Luca Cavalli-Sforza claimed that the project did not support the patenting of indigenous peoples' DNA. In contrast, at the Beijing Women's Conference, Sami indigenous women from the Nordic countries added their voice to the dozens of indigenous peoples' organizations that have denounced the project as a violation of their rights. "The thin veneer of the HGDP as an academic, non-commercial exercise has been shattered by the US government patenting an indigenous person from Papua New Guinea," said Edward Hammond, Program Officer with RAFI-USA in North Carolina. The Value of Human DNA: Mining Indigenous Communities for Raw Materials NIH's patent (US 5,397,696) claims a cell line containing the unmodified Hagahai DNA and several methods for its use in detecting HTLV-1-related retroviruses. The team that patented the cell line is headed by the 1976 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, Dr. D.Carleton Gajdusek. Recent cases have concretely demonstrated the economic value of human DNA from remote populations in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and development of vaccines. Blood samples drawn from the asthmatic inhabitants of the remote South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha were sold by researchers to a California-based company which in turn sold rights to its as yet unproved technologies for asthma treatment to German giant Boehringer Ingelheim for US $70 million. NIH patent claims on indigenous people's genetic material are pursued abroad by the National Technical Information Service, a division of the US Department of Commerce. Ronald Brown, the US Secretary of Commerce has left no question as to his interpretation of the controversy, stating "Under our laws... subject matter relating to human cells is patentable and there is no provision for considerations relating to the source of the cells that may be the subject of a patent application." The Hagahai, and millions of other indigenous people, in other words, are raw material for US business. RAFI believes that this is only the beginning of a dangerous trend toward the commodification of humanity and the knowledge of indigenous people. Whether human genetic material or medicinal plants are the target, there is scarcely a remote rural group in the world that is not being visited by predatory researchers. Indigenous people, whose unique identity is in part reflected in their genes, are prime targets of gene hunters. Says Leonora Zalabata of the Arhuaco people of Colombia: "This could be another form of exploitation, only this time they are using us as raw materials." RAFI Challenges the Patenting of Human Beings RAFI has been closely following the patenting of indigenous people since 1993, when pressure from RAFI and the Guaymi General Congress led to the withdrawal of a patent application by the US Secretary of Commerce on a cell line from a Guaymi indigenous woman from Panama. RAFI is currently investigating prospects to bring the issue of human patenting to the World Court at the Hague as well as the Biodiversity Convention and relevant multilateral bodies. CONTACTS: Pat Mooney, Executive Director Ottawa, ONT (Canada) (613) 567-6= 880 Jean Christie, International Liaison Queensland, Australia (61) 79 394-792 Edward Hammond, Program Officer Pittsboro, NC (USA) (919) 542-1396 DATE: 4 October 1995
Arctic Council - Indigenous Peoples Involvement Ritva Torikka from the sami Council mentions, the concern that indigenous peoples knowledge is used as a political weapon, because there are not enough http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/NatResources/Policy/tennberg.html
Extractions: The Arctic Council, which was established in September 1996, will take over the activities of the AEPS. The final AEPS ministerial meeting will be held next summer in Norway. During the negotiations to establish the Council the rules of participation developed under AEPS were renegotiated and the role of indigenous peoples' organizations in the cooperation was discussed. Olav Schram Stokke described the proposal to establish the Arctic Council as "an institutional knot tying together the various-level cooperative processes in the Arctic. The proposal aims to merge two parallel processes in the Arctic: internationalization and transnationalization." These transnational processes include cooperation between scientists (International Arctic Science Committee, IASC), among indigenous peoples (Arctic Leaders Summit) and within the organization of local and regional governments in the Circumpolar North (the Northern Forum). Institutions such as the Arctic Council are interesting because of the constitutive rules that are created through institutionalization. Michel Foucault situated institutions within "the thin but entangling web of power relations." Power is a name that is given to the complex strategic situation in a society. At some particular time, power relations may be crystallized into a certain institution. Institutions are "the most readily definable macro-objects, grosser instruments for the finer, more elemental workings of power." Thus, it is a question of analyzing institutions from the standpoint of power and not from a standpoint of institutions.
Permanent Forum On Indigenous Issues 197378 Executive member of the Nordic sami Council 1976-78 Delegate to thefounding conference of the World Council of indigenous peoples(WCIP), Port http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/aboutPFII/members_magga.htm
Extractions: PUBLICATIONS SPEECHES Message of the Chairperson of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on the occasion of the International Day of The Worlds Indigenous Peoples, 9 August 2003 Mr. Magga's Speech on "Indigenous People's Perspectives on Quality Education" SPEECHES International Day of The Worlds Indigenous Peoples, 9 August 2003
Permanent Forum On Indigenous Issues Board 197378 Executive member of the Nordic sami Council 1976-78 Delegate to thefounding conference of the World Council of indigenous peoples(WCIP), Port http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/pfii/members/olemagga.htm
Rainbowbody Indigenous People Links Baiki Journal of the North American sami peoples,. are the 100,000 Indigenousinhabitants of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Russian Kola Peninsula. http://www.rainbowbody.net/Ongwhehonwhe/indiglink.htm
Extractions: RA IN BO WB RI DG E for future generations . Aboriginal Voices Media Abya Yala Net Abya Yala means "Continent of Life" in the language of the Kuna peoples of Panama and Colombia. Here you will find much information on Indigenous peoples in Mexico, Central, and South America. See also below links for Leonard Pelletier, Dennis Banks, John Trudell, wounded kneee, Fire in the Prairie, Pine Ridge, and Russell Means. AIM - The American Indian Movement : Grand Governing Council. AIM - Suggested Reading List AIM - Confederation of Autonomous Chapters Akwesasne Notes is a Journal for Native and Natural Peoples. Of the best quality and many articles by John Mohawk. Part of the Mohawk Nation AKWESASNE TASK FORCE ON THE ENVIRONMENT (ATFE) at http://www.Mohawknation.org
Sami People political institutions. Compared with other indigenous peoples in theworld, the sami today enjoy a strong position. Nevertheless, they http://www.vasterbotten.se/english/arkives/samipeople.htm
Extractions: German French Italian Portuguese Spanish Facts Environment EU regional IT Education County Council ... County Adm inistration Communications Tourism Trade and industry Webeditor: christer.abrahamsson@vasterbotten.se Tel. +46 This guide is a joint effort by the County Administrative Board, the County Council and the municipalities of Västerbotten. Did you know that the Sami people have eight seasons a year? The reindeer breeding year is divided into eight seasons in the Sami language. Each season is a separate phase of reindeer breeding. These seasons start in the late winter March and April when the reindeer are moved from the winter grazing ground in the low lands to the mountain areas where calving will take place. The year progresses through the various phases that include calving, building of corrals, marking the calves, grazing, mating, slaughtering of the bulls, and ends in December-March when the herds are divided into smaller groups. The reindeer are moved to winter grazing where the white reindeer moss is easier to find in the snow. Reindeer herding is run on a modern basis. Nowadays, modern equipment like helicopters, snowmobiles, motorcycles, GPS and mobile slaughterhouses are used to make the herding more efficient. Truly an indigenous people in tune with the times. Picture: Mountain Landscape from Samiland.
Barents Presentation of indigenous peoples expresses their deep concern about the desperate and humiliatingfinancial situation within the Barents Cooperation. Read more sami Flag http://www.barsek.no/?deptid=1435
Extractions: of the Sami Parliaments By declaring the years 19952004 as the International Decade of the Worlds Indigenous People, the General Assembly of the United Nations has expressed the will to place indigenous matters on the international agenda for a period of ten years. When the UN member states now undertake to improve the living conditions of indigenous peoples, there is also a great challenge to the indigenous peoples themselves to give the Decade a concrete content that will produce results. The Sami Parliaments of Finland, Norway and Sweden are prepared to take on the inherent responsibilities by presenting own initiatives to the UN system, the nation states, and in the collaboration with other indigenous peoples. Through various international conferences, such as the World Conference on Women, the World Conference on Environment and Development, the World Conference on Human Rights, and other important meetings, the UN has addressed the demands and rights of indigenous peoples. The increasing focus on the situation of indigenous peoples world-wide forms the basis of the United Nations International Decade of the Worlds Indigenous People. The Sami Parliaments will also participate in, and assume responsibility for this development, on their own terms. The framework of the Sami Parliaments work will in part be the formalised programmes on which the Decade is based, but also to a large extent the Sami culture and way of thinking; in other words, the very foundation of the Samis existence as a people.
UNESCO - Education Rights Of Indigenous Peoples To Be Discussed At UNESCO of the sami Parliament, from 1989 to 1997. Several representatives of Mexican indigenousgroups (the Tzeltal, Purepecha, Mixe, Zapotec and Amuzgo peoples) will http://portal.unesco.org/es/ev.php-URL_ID=17168&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.
Extractions: new COOL("menu1", MENU_ITEMS_MULTIPLE1) Français English Inicio - Media Services UNESCOPRESS ... Comunicados de prensa var static_ko="17168"; var static_section="201"; var static_langue="es"; Nuevo Correo de la UNESCO Cultural Events Publications UNESCO Servicios de información ... Versión para imprimir Media are free to use and reproduce UNESCOPRESS outputs UNESCO Nurturing the democratic debate. Education rights of indigenous peoples to be discussed at UNESCO Editorial Contact: Cristina L'Homme, Bureau of Public Information, Editorial Section. Tel: +33 (0)1 4568-1711 - Email 12-11-2003 4:45 pm "The right to education for indigenous peoples" is the topic of a discussion to be organized by UNESCO at its Headquarters on November 17 (Room XI, 2.30 p.m.) as part of the 1995-2004 International Decade of the World's Indigenous People, who number 350 million in more than 70 countries. Two leading defenders of indigenous peoples' rights will take part. One is Rodolfo Stavenhagen, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples, who teaches sociology at the Colegio de Mexico, in Mexico and has done research on social development, agrarian problems, ethnic conflicts, indigenous peoples and human rights. The other is Ole Henrik Magga, President of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, who teaches Sami linguistics (Lapp) at Sami University College in Guovdageaidnu (Kautokeino), Norway, and was the first president of the Sami Parliament, from 1989 to 1997. Several representatives of Mexican indigenous groups (the Tzeltal, Purepecha, Mixe, Zapotec and Amuzgo peoples) will also be present.
Indigenous Peoples: University Of Waikato Law Library ground breaking report on Australian indigenous Cultural and rights of the Romani(Romany Gyspy) people. sami People, Information on the sami people (sometimes http://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/resources/law/s_indig.shtml
Extractions: Documentation Project The mission of the Fourth World Documentation Project is to document and make available to tribal governments, researchers and organizations, important documents relating to the social, political, strategic, economic and human rights situations being faced by Fourth World nations and create a historical archive of the political struggles waged by Indigenous Peoples to assert their rights as sovereign nations. NativeWeb A good starting point for finding information of indigenous peoples all around the world. Indigenous Peoples and the Law Latest articles and news items on law affecting indigenous peoples (especially strong in Maori resources) Hosted by Victoria University of Wellington. ILO (International Labour Organisation) Recent developments in the ILO concerning indigenous and tribal peoples with full text of documents such as the Convention no. 169 on Indigenous Peoples (1989) and Convention no. 107
Indigenous Peoples Circumpolar Conference, which represents Inuit people from Greenland, Canada, Alaskaand Russia and the sami Council, which represent sami People from Sweden http://www.itpcentre.org/trad_sami.htm
Baiki specific dates can be applied to the precontact pre-historic eras of the Inuitand Yup ik or Eskimo, peoples of Alaska, or the indigenous sami, or Lapp http://members.tripod.com/Baiki/alaska.htm
Extractions: HOME , or select a page: Alaska chronology About BAIKI About the library Audio and video Baiki feature of the month Contents of back issues Email us Home page How to subscribe How to order back issues Latest issue Links Maps and documents North American Sami community events A Saami glossary Saami Spirit T-shirt then press: THE TIME OF ORAL TRADITION Prior to contact with Europeans, most Indigenous languages did not contain words meaning "time" in the Western sense. Therefore no specific dates can be applied to the pre-contact ["pre-historic"] eras of the Inuit and Yup'ik or "Eskimo," Peoples of Alaska, or the Indigenous Sami, or "Lapp," People of Scandinavia. However, their oral histories indicate that they formed complex, satisfying, spiritually-based and technologically-developed cultures that did not destroy the Arctic environment. Then Europeans who based their religion and technology on the domination of nature and the subjugation of Indigenous Peoples began to move in. 15TH AND 16TH CENTURIES: An environmental crisis develops in Sápmi ["Finnmark"] when Russian and other European trappers begin the wholesale slaughter of the wild life there in order to capitalize on the growing European market for furs. The introduction of firearms among the Sami further intensifies the exploitation. The traditional Sami way of life is altered because their natural sources of food, clothing and implements are used up. In response to this crisis, reindeer nomadism - the domestication and herding of reindeer - becomes the new subsistence alternative for the Sami by the 17th century.
Colummn Published Dec 1998 . the creation of a sami tribal park Sweden would finally begin to follow the internationaltreatys and conventions for the rights of the indigenous peoples. http://www.oloft.com/tribalpark.html
Extractions: Olof T. Johansson The time have come to look at new ideas. Around the world the indigenous peoples are allowed some variety of selfdetermination, everywhere but in Sweden. The creation of a tribal park might be an interesting challenge which might become a proof that we're able to manage the preservation and developement of our mountains. With this fact known, the locals as well as the native communitys have been rather sceptical to these plans. When the state administration then failed to present a plan for the creation of a national park my friend in the Sami community Per-Erik Jonasson stated: "Well lets create a Sami tribal park instead." After considering this proposition for a while, i arrived at the conclusion that it is a splendid suggestion. It could be the first step toward a Sami territory under our own management. Trough the creation of a Sami tribal park Sweden would finally begin to follow the international treatys and conventions for the rights of the indigenous peoples. It is six years since Sweden participated in the Rio conference, and it might be time that the nation shows that they were serious by proclaiming that they intend to "acknowledge and strengthen the rights of the indigenous people as well as their society." The Swedish government are investigating if they are going to sign the ILO-convention 169, in which there's several paragraphs about native propertyrights, as well as landrights to traditional lands. Also the rights of the indigenous rights to participate in the preservation and developement of such lands. Something that corresponds with the idea of a tribal park.
Arbeiderpartiet-The Sami People Of Norway The Convention has been translated into the Norwegian and sami language. Article7 states that indigenous peoples shall have the right to decide their http://www.dna.no/index.gan?id=15353
Www.environment.fi - Sami People Commercial Use. indigenous peoples. sami People. Public Education and Awareness. www.environment.fi LUMONET indigenous peoples sami People. sami People. http://www.ymparisto.fi/default.asp?node=5461&lan=en
Indigenous Peoples And Conservation Lapland and the indigenous sami culture, and impressed with indigenous peoplesbotanical just like industrialized peoples, indigenous peoples have sometimes http://www.plant-talk.org/stories/25edit.html
Extractions: The importance of indigenous peoples to conservation was explicitly recognized in the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD). Article 8j requires the signatory nations to a) respect, preserve, and maintain traditional knowledge, b) promote wide application of traditional knowledge, and c) encourage equitable sharing of benefits from traditional knowledge. Other than that brief mention, however, indigenous peoples and the importance of indigenous knowledge were largely ignored by the CBD, a situation which perhaps might be redressed in Rio +10. Yet the prospects for international recognition of indigenous peoples as stewards of threatened biodiversity are not good. Many otherwise progressive countries who have ratified the CBD remain reluctant to discuss indigenous issues, which sometimes bring up unpleasant memories of poor relationships with indigenous peoples in their own lands. Indigenous knowledge systems are imperilled perhaps even more than threatened plants. Linguists estimate that over half of all indigenous languages disappeared in the 20th century. Of those that remain, 80% are spoken only by elderly individuals. A tongue that is no longer spoken by little children is the linguistic equivalent of an endangered species. As these indigenous languages disappear the important cultural insights they contain in conservation also disappear.
Jentoft, Svein: Indigenous Peoples Einar Eythórsson 9. From Norwegianization to Coastal sami Uprising Ragnar Nilsen10. The Challenge and the Promise of indigenous peoples Fishing Rights http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/16348.ctl
Extractions: Jentoft, Svein, Henry Minde, and Ragnar Nilsen, editors Indigenous Peoples Resource Management and Global Rights . Distributed for the Eburon Publishers, Delft. 328 p. 6_3/10 x 9_1/2 2003 Paper BENE $27.50tx 9-05166-978-X Spring 2004 Rapid industrial development and urban growth increasingly threaten indigenous peoples and their ways of life. As a result, a grassroots movement is spreading among indigenous cultures, and the 1992 Rio Earth Summit catalyzed a UN legal investigation. Indigenous Peoples challenges the assumption that these processes are empowering indigenous peoples in tangible ways by examining the ongoing work, and offers a detailed analysis of the legal, political and institutional implications. This volume is an engaging study of the issues involved in indigenous peoples' rights. Table of Contents
