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D'ERRICO: Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: What’s in a Name? Say It (5/10/2012)
(USA) -- One of the most significant declarations ever to emanate from the United Nations, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, is belittled—mocked...
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NORRELL: Hacked e-mails reveal Mexico manipulating climate change facts, destroying Indian sacred lands (2/17/2012)
(Mexico) -- The hacked e-mails of Mexico’s mining industry of Camimex exposed by Anonymous reveal that the government of Mexico is manipulating climate change...
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Mining & Drilling
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Native People in Argentina Demand a Say in Lithium Mining (3/31/2012)
(Argentina) -- Native communities in northwest Argentina turned to the Supreme Court to claim their right to be consulted about projects for prospecting and mining of...
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Indian anti-mining activists claim harassment (3/21/2012)
(Ecuador) -- The lands of the Shuar Indians in the Amazon are rich in wildlife such as tapirs, toucans and red howler monkeys. They also hold treasures more coveted by...
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Hundreds March in Ecuador for Water Safeguards and Mining Protests (3/16/2012)
(Ecuador) -- Hundreds of demonstrators – both indigenous people and members of the political opposition – began a two-week march from Ecuador’s...
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Mexico: Indigenous Sacred Land Saved as Mining Project Suspended (3/3/2012)
(Mexico) -- A Mexican court has ordered the suspension of 38 mining projects in the sacred indigenous area of Wirikuta in the northern Mexican state of San Luis Potosi.
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Long Live Wirikuta! Mexico Judiciary Suspends Mining Concessions On Wixarika Lands (2/28/2012)
(Mexico) -- The Wixarika people, after campaigning for seventeen straight months to protect their sacred territory, have been granted a major reprieve by the federal...
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Hundreds of Mexico’s Huichol Indians trek to their sacred ground seeking to stop silver mine (2/26/2012)
(Mexico) -- Huichol Indians believe the sun was born in a spot high in the arid Sierra de Catorce mountain range of northern Mexico. For them, that spot — the...
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Huichol ‘cosmic portal’ peyote ceremonies threatened by silver mine (2/14/2012)
(Mexico) -- For the Huichol Indians, the desert mountains here are sacred, a cosmic portal with major mojo, where shamans collect the peyote that fuels the waking dreams...
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BLOG: Anonymous hacks Mexico mining industry in defense of Indigenous (2/12/2012)
(Mexico) -- Anonymous hacked Mexico’s mining industry in defense of Indigenous Peoples struggling to protect their sacred lands, and their fellow campesinos who are...
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Indigenous Leaders Call for Ecuador Government to Stop Oil Leasing Plans (2/12/2012)
(Ecuador) -- Indigenous leaders from Ecuador’s Amazonian lowlands are calling for the government to drop plans to auction 21 leases near the Peruvian border for...
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Panama Indians win withdrawal of dam, mines law (2/11/2012)
(Panama) -- Legislators in Panama have agreed to reconsider a law on dams and mining that set off disruptive protests by Indians and their supporters.
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Indians block Panama roads in debate over mining (2/2/2012)
(Panama) -- Members of an Indian tribe in Panama are blocking roads in two provinces on the border with Costa Rica in a dispute over mineral exploitation on their lands.
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Tribal Villages, Mining Firms Fight for Land In Indonesia (1/9/2012)
(Indonesia) -- Members of two tribal communities in Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara, say they are being driven from their homes by the authorities as part of a land dispute...
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Aboriginal group battles with Fortescue Metals (12/30/2011)
(Australia) -- A West Australian Aboriginal group has gone to the State Administrative Tribunal to try to stop Fortescue Metals Group proceeding with a mining project in...
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Native title law expert says court decision won't stop James Price Point gas precinct (12/7/2011)
(Australia) -- Native title law professor and QC, Greg McIntyre, says the Supreme Court decision on compulsory acquisition is unlikely to have a major impact on the...
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Filipino tribe protests against mining venture (11/27/2011)
(Philippines) -- Members of a Filipino tribe are protesting after the country’s second richest businessman agreed to enter a joint mining venture on the island of...
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Indigenous group protests Northern Territory iron ore plan (11/25/2011)
(Australia) -- Aboriginal elders angry about plans to pipe iron ore slurry through sacred areas have presented a petition to Northern Territory parliamentarians.
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Aboriginal dissent intensifies over Cape York coal mine (11/22/2011)
(Australia) -- ABORIGINAL dissent is intensifying over plans to build Cape York's first working coal mine, ahead of a crucial meeting on the peninsula today.
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Activist nun who fought Indian mining companies brutally murdered (11/17/2011)
(India) -- Sister Valsa John wanted to go home. Living in self-imposed exile hundreds of kilometres away, she pined for the hut in an aboriginal village where she had...
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Nothing for tribals in Mining Bill (10/9/2011)
(India) -- A hefty 26-per cent share of mining profits would perhaps lift drooping tribal sentiments and lull the apprehensions of those championing their cause.
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Labor & Unions
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International Labor Organization Concerned With Lack of Indigenous Input on Belo Monte (3/10/2012)
(Brazil) -- Continued construction of the Belo Monte dam, a huge and controversial hydroelectric plant on Brazil’s Xingú River raised red flags for a committee of...
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First Nations Politics
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B.C. aboriginals ask China to raise human-rights issues with Harper on PM's visit (2/6/2012)
(British Columbia) -- Aboriginals from British Columbia have asked China's president to quiz Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Canada's human rights record during...
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Keystone XL Pipeline
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Indigenous Activists from Canada Protest Tar Sands Oil at Durban Climate Change Summit (12/6/2011)
(South Africa) -- This morning in Durban, South Africa, a group of youth and indigenous activists from Canada gave delegates to the U.N. climate talks mock gift bags...
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Bigfoot
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Experts in Russia ’95 percent sure’ Bigfoot exists (10/11/2011)
(Russia) -- Nothing is certain, but a team of scientists meeting in Russia say they’re pretty darn certain Bigfoot exists and is roaming the icy Siberian tundra.
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Other News
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PHOTOS: Yawalapiti tribe living traditionally in the Amazonian jungle of Brazil (5/15/2012)
(Brazil) -- Yawalapiti youth chief Anuia (front) leads a dance in the Xingu National Park, Mato Grosso State on May 7. In August the Yawalapiti tribe will hold the...
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Dam Project Threatens a Way of Life in Peru (5/15/2012)
(Peru) -- Along the murky waters of the Ene River, in a remote jungle valley on the verdant eastern slopes of the Andes, the rhythmic humming of an outboard motor draws...
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Peru’s Indigenous Band Together to Protect Their Lands and Water Rights (5/15/2012)
(Peru) -- As a teenager two decades ago, Ruth Buendía saw the Asháninka communities in Peru’s central Amazonian lowlands torn apart by violence as the Shining Path...
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Nepal's mystery language on the verge of extinction (5/14/2012)
(Nepal) -- Gyani Maiya Sen, a 75-year-old woman from western Nepal, can perhaps be forgiven for feeling that the weight of the world rests on her shoulders.
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BLOG: As the Clock Ticks, Trees Fall in Brazil’s Amazon (5/14/2012)
(Brazil) -- As Brazil braces for president Dilma Rousseff’s forthcoming decision on whether to sign or veto recent legislation that would alter the country’s...
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Ancient Cultures Strive to Modernize ‘Medieval’ Western Notions at UNPFII (5/13/2012)
(New York) -- As the 11th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) dissected the Doctrine of Discovery this week, peoples from ancient...
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BLOG: Indians ‘cry with happiness’ at Brazilian Court ruling (5/13/2012)
(Brazil) -- The Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãe Indians of Brazil are celebrating a Supreme Court decision to allow them to live undisturbed on their land. The Pataxó, of Bahia state,...
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Bolivia’s Economy Grows, but Challenges Still Persist (5/13/2012)
(Bolivia) -- Evo Morales promised a new economic policy based on indigenous principles and an aggressive redistribution of natural resource wealth to benefit all...
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The Grammar of Happiness: How an Indigenous Tribe Changed a Missionaries Views Airs May 12 (5/12/2012)
(Brazil) -- When twenty-five year old missionary Dan Everett landed among the Pirahãs Tribe in 1977, with the intention of evangelizing the lost Amazonian community, he...
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Doomsday Busted: Mayan Calendar Looks Ahead 7,000 Years (5/12/2012)
(USA) -- A team of archaeologists has discovered a series of murals deep in the Guatemalan jungle, one of them a calendar that looks far into the future, the scientists...
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Threatened Pataxo Indian Tribe of Brazil Celebrates Supreme Court Decision (5/12/2012)
(Brazil) -- The Pataxo Ha-Ha-Hae Indian tribe, residing in Brazil, has been allowed by a Supreme Court verdict to live undisturbed in their area. The court has asked the...
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Ancient Maya workshop for astronomers discovered (5/11/2012)
(Guatemala) -- Archeologists have discovered Maya astronomical tables that are hundreds of years older than any previously discovered — and which pour more cold...
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Mother Earth Should Not Be "Owned, Privatised and Exploited" (5/10/2012)
(United Nations) -- For centuries, indigenous peoples and their rights, resources and lands have been exploited. Yet long overdue acknowledgment of past exploitation and...
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Native Peoples Aim to End Historic and Current Injustices (5/10/2012)
(United Nations) -- Leaders of the world's 370 million indigenous people are urging governments not only to replace laws that violate the natives' rights to...
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Video: Steve Newcomb Delivers North American Caucus Statement at UNPFII (5/10/2012)
(New York) -- Steve Newcomb, (Shawnee/Lenape) delivers the North American Caucus intervention at the 11th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous...
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‘Doctrine of Discovery’, Used for Centuries to Justify Seizure of Indigenous Land, Subjugate Peoples, Must Be Repudiated by United Nations, Permanent Forum Told (5/10/2012)
(New York) -- The Doctrine of Discovery had been used for centuries to expropriate indigenous lands and facilitate their transfer to colonizing or dominating nations,...
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Maya calendar workshop documents time beyond 2012 (5/10/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- Archaeologists have found a stunning array of 1,200-year-old Maya paintings in a room that appears to have been a workshop for calendar scribes and...
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Unprecedented Maya Mural Found, Contradicts 2012 "Doomsday" Myth (5/10/2012)
(Guatemala) -- In the last known largely unexcavated Maya megacity, archaeologists have uncovered the only known mural adorning an ancient Maya house, a new study says...
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War of words over tribal tongue (5/10/2012)
(Brazil) -- It wasn’t long after his translation of the Gospel of St Mark failed to interest the Pirahã tribe members he was trying to convert to Christianity that...
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Maori lay claim to Bay beaches (5/9/2012)
(New Zealand) -- Three Maori groups are claiming customary title to Motiti Island under the Marine and Coastal Bill. All three claims to the 10kmsq island are being made...
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