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Indian Tribes Fight Federal Labor Law

The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians is taking the lead in a legal fight contending that tribes are exempt from federal labor laws, particularly rules regarding workers' right to unionize, because they are sovereign governments. Oral arguments will begin before the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in the coming months. (Erica Werner, AP, 3 September 2006)

http://www.statesman.com/business/content/shared-gen/ap/Finance_General/Tribes_Labor.html

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Indigenous Ceremony at Bear Butte Faces Disruption, 'Desecration'

A fight to keep a motorcycle rally from disturbing a native prayer site in South Dakota is shedding light on a history of spiritual oppression -- and stoking the movement to protect indigenous cultural rights. (Michelle Chen, The NewStandard News, Towards Freedom, 11 July 2006)

http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/853/

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Native Youth Suicides in Canada Reach Crisis Rate

Suicide rates are now five to seven times higher for First Nations youth than for non-aboriginal youth, according to Health Canada, and among Inuit youth, suicide rates are 11 times the national average. Some aboriginal bands have suicide rates over 800 times the national average (IPS, 12 December 2007).

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40448

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Natives of Guam Decry U.S. Expansion Plan

Pentagon plan for a massive military build-up on the Pacific island of Guam is meeting with resistance by ethnic Chamorros who live there and the Chamorro diaspora in the United States. Activists believe the redeployment will result in a total influx of approximately 35,000 people, a number they say will overwhelm their small island, which has a population of just 168,000 people. (Aaron Glantz, IPS, 12 December 2006)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35816

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US, Australia, US, New Zealand Reject Indigenous Declaration

The United States, Australia and New Zealand are the only countries that remain in opposition to the proposed United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People, which recognises the principle of sovereignty. (Haider Rizvi, IPS News, 24 May 2006)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33358

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A Different Type of Courage

This review essay in the New York Review of Books, discusses the impact of loss of culture associated with colonialism.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20110

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Aboriginals in Canada - Finding their voice

Canada delivers an official apology to its increasingly assertive indigenous peoples. Article from the Economist. (12 June 2008)

http://www.economist.com/world/la/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11546101

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Bomb to be dropped on Western Shoshone Nation's ancestral land

Just weeks after the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) urged the United States to halt any actions taken against or threatened against the Western Shoshone people, the US has announced plans to drop a 700-ton bunker-busting bomb on this disputed territory on 2 June 2006. Being the most bombed nation in the world, the Western Shoshone already suffer unusually high rates of leukaemia and birth defects. Western Shoshone activists say nothing much has changed since the earlier genocide (where US soldiers handed out blankets laced with smallpox) eradicated 98% of the indigenous population: only this time it is a 'spiritual genocide' against the Earth. The explosion can only be halted if there is enough opposition. This article includes information on how to take action. (Nicola Graydon, The Ecologist Blog, 20 April 2006)

http://www.theecologist.org/blog_full.asp?blog_detail_id=15

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Canada: Stolen Sisters - Help break the silence

According to Canadian government statistics, young Indigenous women in Canada are at least five times more likely than all other women to die as a result of violence. Please support our continuing efforts to urge the federal government to establish a comprehensive and coordinated plan of action to stop violence against Indigenous women. (Amnesty International, Canada)

http://www.amnesty.ca/campaigns/sisters_overview.php

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Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources

CIER is a national NGO established by a group of First Nation Chiefs from across Canada. CIER's programmes take action on climate change, build sustainable communities, protect lands and waters, and conserve biodiversity.

http://www.cier.ca/taking-action-on-climate-change/Default.aspx?id=56&linkidentifier=id&itemid=56

(Added: Thu Oct 18 2007   Hits: 144)

Chemically Bonded

Canada's Aanishnaabek tribe who live on a reserve surrounded by chemical plants. Legally, there are no laws whatsoever to prevent toxic dumping on Indian land. Health problems are rife among the Aanishnaabek, and, these days, only a third of the children born are boys. But the idea of leaving is problematic: land is far more than just property - it's an integral part of their history and their identity. (Zoe Cormier, Ecologist, 1 December 2006)

http://www.theecologist.org/archive_detail.asp?content_id=719

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Colonies in question : Supporting Indigenous Movements (pdf)

Surina Khan. Funding Exchange. New York. December 2003. This report examines the strategic US militarization of the jurisdictions and the impacts of this militarization on land use, local ommunities, environment, health, and the economy. It looks at local economies and industries in relation to modernization, development, and lobalization. This report surfaces some of the different community needs as well as existing organizing efforts in the jurisdictions and points to the enormous need for greater financial resources to support community organizing efforts.In jurisdictions are a forgotten phenomenon-their status in the international community as part of the US makes them ineligible for many international programs.

http://www.hawaii.edu/hivandaids/Colonies_in_Question__Supporting_Indigenous_Movements_in_the_US_Jurisdictions.pdf

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Communities speak out : hear our voice : the vitality of official language minority communities

In the fall of 2006, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Official Languages undertook a study on the vitality of official language minority communities. This study incorporated two previous studies conducted in the fall of 2006 regarding health care and immigration (House of Commons, Canada, May 2007).

http://cmte.parl.gc.ca/cmte/CommitteePublication.aspx?COM=10472&Lang=1&SourceId=206228

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Courting Disaster

Since at least ancient Roman times, Western legal systems have recognized that where there is a right, there also must be a remedy. Western law now dominates the globe and underpins international human rights law. All national legal systems recognize the right to a remedy for general wrongs suffered, and international human rights law extends this by providing a right to reparations for human rights violations. Unfortunately, despite the long history of the concept and the ubiquity of the legal influence, the notion of remedy for wrongs has rarely been applied to indigenous peoples (Ellen Lutz, Cultural Survival, 1 October 2007).

http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/csq/csq-article.cfm?id=1978

(Added: Fri Oct 26 2007   Hits: 50)

Defiance in the land of the free

For over 30 years, Carrie and Mary Dann have fought the US government for Western Shoshone rights to 60m acres of land that stretch through Nevada into neighbouring states. Until now, the harassment has hardly scratched the conscience of America, but that might be about to change. In March, in an unprecedented document, the UN demanded that the US government halt all actions against the Shoshone and find a solution acceptable to them and in accordance with their rights. This landmark decision could force the government to transform antiquated federal Indian law. (Nicola Graydon, The Sunday Times, 23 April 2006)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-2142374.html

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Don't Worry, Be Guilty

Despite the fact that there are global trends in favor of reparations for indigenous peoples, the United States has no general program of reparations for Native Americans and no prospects for adopting one. Part of the reason for this may be political, but the larger part lies in the origins and basic philosophy of the country (David C. Williams, Cultural Survival Magazine, 1 October 2007).

http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/csq/csq-article.cfm?id=1980

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Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement (IPSM)

The Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement (IPSM) is a collective whose primary goal is to ally with indigenous peoples in the active fight for mutual self-determination. They employ a diversity of initiatives and tactics, ranging from popular education to mobilisation to direct action, believing that the process of decolonisation in a settler-state like Canada can only be achieved through an active and collaborative effort.

http://ipsm.nativeweb.org/en/

(Added: Thu Jul 13 2006   Hits: 47)

Intolerable Intolerance

A new wave of racism against indigenous peoples is emanating from figures so hallowed they are intimidating to confront. But confront them we must; and recognize their words and deeds for what they are. The mistakes of the past are too egregious. We cannot tolerate their recurrence (Ellen Lutz, Cultural Survival, 1 October 2007).

http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/csq/csq-article.cfm?id=1971

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Inuit Observations on Climate Change

International Institute for Sustainable Development. On Banks Island in Canada's High Arctic, Inuvialuit hunters and trappers have a close relationship with the natural world. Given the dramatic changes that local people have observed, IISD and the Hunters and Trappers Committee of Sachs Harbour initiated a year-long project to document the problem of Arctic climate change and communicate it to Canadian and international audiences. The project team worked in partnership with specialists from five organizations to develop an innovative method for recording and sharing local observations on climate change.

http://iisd1.iisd.ca/casl/projects/inuitobs.htm

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Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami represents the four Inuit regions in Canada. This website provides their 5000 year history, Inuktitut language magazines, and articles about their current projects and struggles, such as land claims.

http://www.itk.ca/

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Joining Forces to Save the Colorado River Delta

The Hoover Dam and the other reservoirs that followed on the Colarado river irrigated and powered 20th Century western expansion. However, the life they sustained north of the border was mirrored in death south of it. Desperate, some 200,000 people in the 1,127 communities of the Colorado River's Mexican watershed have mounted campaigns to save what little water trickles down to them, obtain more, and restore habitats. (Talli Nauman, IRC, 7 February 2007)

http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3959

(Added: Mon Feb 12 2007   Hits: 47)

Life on the Edge of a Warming World

In recent years, while governments around the globe have been prevaricating over carbon emission policies and scientists arguing over the existence of global warming, the arctic has been melting. To the native Inuits of Northern Canada, the United States, Russia and Greenland, global warming is a reality, not a series of hypothetical scenarios. Since the millennium they have seen their landscape, their livelihood and their very cultural identity eroded at such an alarming rate that they now look set to become the first society to fall victim to climate change in the 21st century. (Claire Kendall, Ecologist, 1 June 2006)

http://www.theecologist.org/archive_detail.asp?content_id=635

(Added: Thu Nov 02 2006   Hits: 140)

Maze of Injustice: the failure to protect indigenous women from sexual violence in the US

This report is based on research carried out during 2005 and 2006 by Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) in consultation with Native America and Alaskan Native organizations and individuals. The research draws on Amnesty International's interviews with survivors of sexual violence and their families, activists, support workers, service providers and health workers (Amnesty Intenational, 2007).

http://www.amnestyusa.org/women/maze/report.pdf

(Added: Wed Aug 29 2007   Hits: 138)

Native Women's Association of Canada

We have a vision of Aboriginal communities where all individuals have an opportunity to develop their talents in order to achieve their full potential. We see communities where all people can lead healthy lifestyles by maintaining balance in their spiritual, emotional, mental and physical health. Our goal is to enhance, promote, and foster the social, economic, cultural, and political well-being of First Nations and Metis women with First Nation and Canadian societies.

http://www.nwac-hq.org

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NativeWeb

NativeWeb is an international, nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to using telecommunications including computer technology and the Internet to disseminate information from and about indigenous nations, peoples, and organizations around the world; to foster communication between native and non-native peoples; to conduct research involving indigenous peoples' usage of technology and the Internet; and to provide resources, mentoring, and services to facilitate indigenous peoples' use of this technology.

http://www.nativeweb.org/

(Added: Thu Apr 04 2002   Modified: Thu Jun 22 2006   Hits: 174)

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