World Indigenous NewsAdoption
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Fears adoption could spark new Stolen Generation (5/13/2013)
(Australia) -- The Northern Territory Chief Minister's suggestion Aboriginal children should be adopted when necessary for their protection has been met with an...
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Australian Prime Minister Apologizes For Forced Adoption Policy (3/23/2013)
(Australia) -- Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has formally apologized for the forced adoptions that took place in the country from the late-1950s to the 1970s.
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Mining & Drilling
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Guatemala cracks down on anti-mine protests (5/3/2013)
(Guatemala) -- Guatemala's government declared a state of emergency and banned public gatherings in four townships east of the capital Thursday following several...
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Australia's boom is anything but for its Aboriginal people (4/28/2013)
(Australia) -- Eleven miles by ferry from Perth is Western Australia's "premier tourist destination". This is Rottnest Island, whose scabrous wild beauty...
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Amazon Indians unite against Canadian oil giant (3/14/2013)
(Peru) -- Amazon Indians from Peru and Brazil have joined together to stop a Canadian oil company destroying their land and threatening the lives of uncontacted tribes.
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Balancing Economic and Social Development in Peruvian Mining Communities (3/14/2013)
(Peru) -- In January 2013, at least a dozen people were injured in clashes between police and members of a Quechua community at Candente Copper Corporation's...
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Minas Conga referendum plans disputed (3/9/2013)
(Peru) -- Authorities have rejected attempts to mount a referendum on the Conga gold and copper mine in Cajamarca, northern Peru. Locals in Cajamarca, northern Peru, are...
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Miner testifies about blasting near sacred site (3/5/2013)
(Australia) -- The former manager of a Northern Territory Manganese mine has given evidence about explosive blasting that may have damaged an Aboriginal sacred site.
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Pluspetrol denies Peru reserve gas push (2/15/2013)
(Peru) -- Pluspetrol of Argentina has denied reports it plans to look for gas within Peru’s Manu nature reserve, an area of the Amazon declared a World Heritage...
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“To get the gold, they will have to kill every one of us” (2/10/2013)
(Ecuador) -- Of the thousands of “Avatar” screenings held during the film’s record global release wave, none tethered the animated allegory to reality...
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Ecuadorian tribe gets reprieve from oil intrusion (1/18/2013)
(Ecuador) -- An indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Amazon has won a reprieve after building up an arsenal of spears, blowpipes, machetes and guns to fend off an...
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Mining industry successfully scuppered Aboriginal land rights in Australia during the 80's (12/31/2012)
(Australia) -- The mining industry successfully thwarted efforts to expand Aboriginal land rights in the early eighties with the collusion of Western Australia's...
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VIDEO: 'Carbon cowboy' swindles Peruvian tribe on land deal (12/28/2012)
(Peru) -- Many tribal leaders from across the world allege that a UN-backed programme to reduce deforestation is instead creating incentives for people to steal their...
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Guatemala Indigenous group suing Canadian mining company (12/4/2012)
(Canada) -- An Indigenous group from Guatemala is taking a Canadian mining company to court over human rights violations. The Guatemalans are launching three civil...
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Maori tribe want mining exploration halted (11/28/2012)
(New Zealand) -- Local residents living in and around Northland, New Zealand are protesting against hard rock mining in the area.
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Zapatistas: Halt hate campaign by silver mining against Wixarika (Huicholes) (11/25/2012)
(Mexico) -- Zapatistas have issued a demand that a misinformation campaign by a silver mining company targeting the Wixarika be halted. Currently, there is a dangerous...
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A Colombian Tribe Fights Mining Multinationals with Bows and Arrows (10/13/2012)
(Colombia) -- When a new baby is born in Tamaquito II, a Wayúu indigenous settlement in La Guajira, in northern Colombia, the child’s family digs a hole near its...
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Peru top court puts tribal sovereignty ahead of mining, logging (9/26/2012)
(Peru) -- Peru's top court has affirmed the right of an Amazon indigenous community to block outsiders from entering its lands - a ruling that could foil resource...
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Perenco gets Peru OK for oil work despite concern about tribes (8/23/2012)
(Peru) -- Perenco said on Thursday it will start producing oil next year in block 67 of Peru's jungle after the government approved its environmental study for the...
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Peru: more protests over mining, water (8/12/2012)
(Peru) -- More than 500 residents in the campesino community of Tumpa in Yungay province of Peru's central Andean region of Áncash, began blocking roads leading to...
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Victory for Indians as court blocks oil project (8/11/2012)
(Ecuador) -- The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of Ecuador’s Kichwa Indians in a case against a controversial oil project that has...
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Reopening Silver Mine Could Save Town, But Destroy the Sacred Site of the Huicholes (8/7/2012)
(Mexico) -- The lands that comprise the Wirikuta Reserve in the San Luis de Potosí state of Mexico are full of covetable wonders. On the surface grow the plump peyote...
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Judge halts rail project close to Earth’s most threatened tribe (8/5/2012)
(Brazil) -- A judge has ordered Brazil’s largest mining company to suspend plans to double a controversial railway track, which would have put the livelihoods of...
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Oil Company Under Fire in Amazon: New Inquiries, Exposés and Penalties Fuel Indigenous Movement (7/30/2012)
(Peru) -- The world that PlusPetrol has built in Peru’s Amazon over the last 16 years seems to be crumbling under the weight of the company’s alleged crimes.
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Protest against Canadian mining firm turns deadly in Bolivia (7/6/2012)
(Bolivia) -- Bolivian officials say a Quechua Indian was killed and six people injured in a clash with police in a remote region where locals have seized five workers...
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Sacred sites 'safe' from iron ore mine road (6/27/2012)
(Australia) -- The Northern Territory Government says it will ensure that a dirt road from a Roper Bar iron ore mine to Bing Bong port near Borroloola will not disturb...
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Oil exploration challenged in court (6/4/2012)
(New Zealand) -- A breach of Te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi) will be one of the arguments used in court when an iwi and Greenpeace seek to delay or stop...
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Risk of oil spill not considered, court told (6/4/2012)
(New Zealand) -- A Government minister issued an oil exploration permit without investigating the possible dangers an oil spill might pose to the east coast of the North...
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An American Indian's Tragic Account Of How The Oil Boom Changed His Town (5/21/2012)
(Canada) -- The oldest story in modern American history—of the white man taking land from the natives—is still happening.
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The age of extreme oil: ‘This used to be a forest?' (5/21/2012)
(Canada) -- One grey Thursday at the end of April, a plane touched down in Fort McMurray, Alta., carrying four Achuar Indians from the Peruvian Amazon. They had flown 8,...
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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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Idle No More
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Idle No More stirs in Australia (1/20/2013)
(Australia) -- The Idle No More campaign continues to spread across the globe. The fight for Indigenous rights campaign has been adopted by Indigenous communities in...
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Norway: The Saami Parliament In Norway Expresses Its Sympathy With The Indigenous Peoples In Canada (1/10/2013)
(Norway) -- Indigenous peoples in Canada and others who sympathize for the indigenous demands have during almost two months staged ongoing demonstrations throughout the...
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OP/ED: Toward a New Era: End-of-Year Message by Grand Chief Edward John, Chair of the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (1/6/2013)
(Canada) -- Grand Chief Edward John, Chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, released a holiday message as 2012 wound down.
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Native Voices
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CHAMPAGNE: Massive Land Losses Coming (8/30/2012)
(California) -- One of the biggest shortcomings of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is that it does not actually define...
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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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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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Other News
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Mapuche of Chile Continue Struggle for Land Rights; A Leader in Prison (5/19/2013)
(Chile) -- Daniel Melinao used to draw water from a well on the land near his small, wood-frame house. Now a fire truck has to come once a week to pump 264 gallons of...
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How Walmart Paid $24 Million In Bribes To Build On Sacred Mayan Ruins (VIDEO) (5/18/2013)
(Mexico) -- As the old saying goes, the three main requirements for success in retail are, “location, location, and location.” No wonder Walmart’s top...
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A Conversation with Shari Sebbens of 'The Sapphires' (5/18/2013)
(Australia) -- In the Australian hit movie The Sapphires, Shari Sebbens plays Kay, a “white-looking” Aboriginal girl who is stolen from her family to live...
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Road-builder bulldozes one of biggest Maya pyramids in Belize; police open criminal probe (5/13/2013)
(Belize) -- A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-...
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Efrain Rios Montt, Former Guatemalan Dictator, Convicted Of Genocide (5/11/2013)
(Guatemala) -- A Guatemalan court convicted former dictator Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity on Friday, sentencing him to 80 years in...
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Genocide conviction of ex-Guatemalan dictator hailed as historic by activists, survivors (5/11/2013)
(Guatemala) -- Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt’s conviction of genocide is a historic moment in a country still healing from a brutal, three-decade civil war and...
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Guatemalan Ex-Dictator Found Guilty of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity (5/11/2013)
(Mexico) -- A three-judge panel Friday convicted former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt of genocide, saying his military regime used “extreme terror”...
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Landmark operation evicts illegal ranchers from Yanomami land (5/11/2013)
(Brazil) -- The Brazilian authorities have begun an operation to remove eleven illegal ranches from the Yanomami territory in Brazil, and return the land to the Indians.
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Indigenous Colombian Authorities Arrest and Sentence FARC Guerrillas (5/9/2013)
(Colombia) -- On Monday, April 29th an indigenous council in Northern Colombia sentenced two members of the FARC guerrilla forces to 40 years of prison for the recent...
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Brazil clips wings of Indian affairs office in land dispute (5/8/2013)
(Brazil) -- The Brazilian government sought to appease the country's powerful farm lobby on Wednesday by broadening the decision-making process used to designate...
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European and Asian languages traced back to single mother tongue (5/8/2013)
(UK) -- Languages spoken by billions of people across Europe and Asia are descended from an ancient tongue uttered in southern Europe at the end of the last ice age,...
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Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’ (5/8/2013)
(UK) -- You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother. And no spitting in the ashes! It’s an odd little...
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Teotihuacan 'Orbs,' Metallic Spheres, Found By Robot Under 'Temple Of The Feathered Serpent' In Mexico (5/5/2013)
(Mexico) -- For centuries, Mexico's ancient city of Teotihuacan has concealed a mysterious secret, only recently revealed by the help of robots equipped with lasers...
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200 indigenous people take control of key Belo Monte construction site (5/5/2013)
(Brazil) -- On Thursday roughly 200 indigenous people launched an occupation of a key construction site for the controversial Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian Amazon.
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Amazon Indians occupy controversial dam to demand a say (Photos) (5/5/2013)
(Brazil) -- Amazon Indians on Friday refused to end their occupation of a building site that has partially paralyzed work on the world's third largest hydroelectric...
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Throwing Maori plight into new focus (5/5/2013)
(New Zealand) -- While still in his 50s, Parekura Horomia observed that as a Maori man he probably had only about a decade left to live. His words were as prophetic as...
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President Morales Expels USAID on Charges of Interference (5/4/2013)
(Bolivia) -- For the second time since 2008, Bolivian President Evo Morales has said he would expel the United States Agency for International Development (USAID),...
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Aboriginal actors racially abused in Melbourne (5/1/2013)
(Australia) -- A group of Aboriginal actors say they were refused service by four Melbourne taxis and racially abused on a tram within a 24-hour period.
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Oxfam Scot on plight of tribe in one of Earth's most remote outposts (4/29/2013)
(Nicaragua) -- FOR two days, Kathryn Porteous travelled into the depths of Nicaragua to reach one of the most remote tribes on the planet. The Oxfam fundraiser had...
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Oldest Maya Sun Observatory Hints at Origin of Civilization (4/28/2013)
(Guatemala) -- The oldest ancient Maya ceremonial compound ever discovered in the Central American lowlands dates back 200 years before similar sites pop up elsewhere in...
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