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Canadian First Nations, US-based Tribal Governments and Indigenous Advocacy Groups Endorse Mass Civil Disobedience Action to Protest Canadian Tar Sand2011-09-22
Canadian First Nations, American Indian Tribes, Territorial, Provincial and Federal First Nations Governments and Advocacy groups have added their support for a rally featuring a civil disobedience si...
Cauca's indigenous community radios appeal for help2012-07-10
As fighting between guerrillas and the army intensifies once again in the Cauca department in south-western Colombia, indigenous communities and their communications infrastructure are more than ever ...
Dene Nation Becomes Part of International Accord Opposed to Keystone XL Pipeline2011-09-21
Dene National Office
Dene Nation Becomes Part of International Accord Opposed to Keystone XL Pipeline.
Sacred fire at Queen's Park marks 10 years of the Grassy Narrows logging blockade2012-12-02
Grassy Narrows Asubpeeschoseewagong Anishinabek
Grassy Narrows Blockaders and their supporters are celebrating the 10 year anniversary of what is now the longest running Indigenous logging blockade in Canada.
Sources welcomes Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)2008-12-13
Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
The Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to strengthening Canadian relations with Latin America and the Caribbean.
University of WINNIPEG AWARDED MAJOR GLOBAL PROGRAM IN INDIGENOUS DEVELOPMENT 2010-05-04
University of Winnipeg
The University of Winnipeg has been selected to become the international hub for the study of Indigenous peoples and communities joining a prestigious world-class network of universities.
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Adivasi Movements in India: An Interview with Poet Waharu Sonavane Patankar, Prachi
Article
2012
Toward Freedom
Waharu is a Bhil Adivasi, long-time poet and activist. Since the 1970s, he has been organizing for Adivasi self-sufficiency among his community near his hometown in western India.
Black WarWikipedia collective
Article
2017
Wikipedia
The Black War was the period of violent conflict between British colonists and Aboriginal Australians in Tasmania from the mid-1820s to 1832. The conflict, fought largely as a guerrilla war by both si...
Borneo's Killer DamsMega-Dams in Sarawak Threaten Indigenous Tribes with Ethnocide
Stephenson, Amanda
Article
2014
Counterpunch
Sarawak, Malaysia, is home to thousands of endemic species, forty indigenous groups, and one of the largest transboundary rainforests remaining in the world. The state is also suffering from one of th...
Cherokee freedmen controversySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
An ongoing political and tribal dispute between the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and descendants of the Cherokee Freedmen regarding tribal citizenship.
Connexions Library: Central America and the Caribbean FocusWebsite
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Central America and the Caribbean.
Connexions Library: Native Peoples/First Nations FocusWebsite
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on first peoples and aboriginal issues.
Corporate India Versus Indigenous PeopleViolent in the Name of Development
Peebles, Graham
Article
2013
Counter Punch
The state has more or less abandoned rural people (70% of the population) and turned the countryside over to corporate India. Mineral extraction, dam building, infrastructure projects, water appropria...
Ecuador's New Indigenous Uprising Becker, Mark
Article
2015
Upside Down World
Ecuador's Indigenous movements have launched an uprising to challenge the government's opposition to bilingual education and its support for an extractive-based economy.
Ethnic Conflicts in NicaraguaVandermeer, John; Bradford, David
Article
1998
Against the Current
WITH LITTLE INTERNATIONAL notice, the winds of war are picking up on the eastern seaboard of Nicaragua. This time, however, it will not be a clear class-warfare case with a popular revolution struggli...
Genocide in Plain Sight: Shooting Bushmen From Helicopters in BotswanaEvans, Lewis
Article
2016
CounterPunch
In a healthy democracy, people are not shot at from helicopters for collecting food. They are not arrested, stripped bare and beaten while in custody without facing trial. Nor are people banned from t...
Guatemala 1962 to 1980sBlum, William
Article
1995
Common Courage Press
An account of the United States' repeated intereventions in Guatemala.
Healing the Dark Legacy of Native American FamiliesTolson, Michelle
Article
2014
Inter Press Service
Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA) - educational issues among indigenous families.
India's Indigenous Peoples organise to protect forests, waters and commonsAchanta, Pushpa
Article
2015
Ecologist
India's neoliberal government is attempting the mass seizure of indigenous lands, commons and forests in order to hand them over for corporate exploitation with mines, dams and plantations. But tribal...
Indigenous Communities in Guatemala Fight Against the Privatization of Sacred Sites Abbott, Jeff
Article
2016
Upsidedownworld
In recent years, the popular tourist attraction of Semuc Champey in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz has become a point of social conflict for the indigenous Q'eqchi' Mayan communities surrou...
Indigenous Intellectual PropertySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Indigenous population growing rapidly, languages surging: censusData also reveals on-reserve First Nation housing getting worse
Barrera, Jorge
Article
2017
CBC.ca
The Indigenous population in Canada continues to rapidly outpace the growth of the rest of the country while Indigenous languages are showing a strong resurgence, according to census data released Wed...
Kalahari Bushmen unite to end oppressionEede, Joanna
Article
2013
Ecologist
Representatives of the Basarwa or Bushman peoples of Botswana step up their fight to end structural oppression of their communities.
The Leap ManifestoA Call for a Canada Based on Caring for the Earth and One Another
Article
2015
We start from the premise that Canada is facing the deepest crisis in recent memory. so we need to Leap.
Legal Ruling Will Allow Rain Forest Indigenous Peoples to Pursue Chevron in CanadaEscobar, Santiago
Article
2014
BASICS
Ontario Court of Appeal says communities of Ecuador affected by Chevron can enforce Ecuadorian rulings in Canada.
Moken nomads leave behind their 'sea gypsy' life for a modern existenceBrought to the world's attention by the 2004 tsunami, the seafaring tribe is struggling to reconcile tradition and modernity
Hodal, Kate
Article
2012
The Guardian
The Moken, deep-sea divers off Thailand, find their way of life threatened by modern trawlers and voracious property developers.
Native & Aboriginal Topic Index in Sources Directory of ExpertsSpokespersons, Experts, and Resources
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Sources
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on Native, Aboriginal and First Nations topics in the Sources directory for the media.
Neoliberal Ebola: The Agroeconomic Origins of the Ebola OutbreakWallace, Rob
Article
2015
Independent Science News
Wallace describes the rise of Ebola, connecting its outbreak to capital-driven shifts in land and changes in the agroeconomic context.
New Evidence Shows Main Chevron Witness Lied In $9.5 Billion Ecuador LawsuitSmallteacher, Richard
Article
2015
CorpWatch
A key witness has admitted under oath that he lied on behalf of Chevron, the California oil multinational, when the company sued to overturn a $9.5 billion verdict for pollution of the Ecuadorian Amaz...
Oil and WaterBrown, Alleen; Parrish, Will; Speri, Alice
Article
2017
The intercept
A collection of articles charting how leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015Residential schools
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
Connexions
This issue of Other Voices focuses on residential schools. As documented by the just-released report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, residential schools were set up to forcibly 'assim...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015Climate Change and Social Change
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
Connexions
This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a produ...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2016Forests and trees
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2016
Connexions
For countless centuries, forests, and the trees in them, have been seen as sources of life, livelihood, and spiritual meaning. For capitalism, however, forests are sites of extraction and profit-makin...
"Our Path Doesn't Depend on Media Coverage"The Zapatistas and Their Coming Strategy Together with Mexico's Original Peoples
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
Article
2012
NarcoNews
Communiqué from the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee-General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army.
The Power of Idle No MoreA Resurgent Radicalism
Dobbin, Murray
Article
2013
CounterPunch
The remarkable Idle No More movement is the biggest and most important national outpouring of grass roots aboriginal anger ever seen in Canada.
Rumble in the jungleCarroll, Rory
Article
2009
Guardian Weekly
Could Peru's uncontacted Amazonian tribes be wiped out by oil giants? Not if they don't exist.
Securing communal land rights for Tanzania's Indigenous PeoplesMorlin-Yron, Sophie
Article
2016
Ecologist
Commuting between land rights negotiations in the city and herding goats on the plains, Edward Loure is at once a traditional Maasai and a modern urbanite. That ability to straddle the two very differ...
What's Kinder Morgan's Real End Game?Klein, Seth
Article
2018
Corporate Mapping Project
An ultimatum has been imposed by Texas based Energy Infrastructure company, Kinder Morgan,that they will cancel the Trans Mountain Pipeline Extension at the end of May 2018 unless clarity is provided...
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Connexions Annual 1994A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1994
Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series...
Native Women in the ArtsPublished by Native Women in the Arts, a not-for-profit organization. Representing First Nations, Inuit and Metis women who share the common interest of art, culture, community and the advancement of ...
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Canadian Museum of HistoryTo enhance Canadians# knowledge, understanding and appreciation of events, experiences, people and objects that reflect and have shaped Canada#s history and identity, and also to enhance their awarene...
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