- A Second Century of Dishonor : Federal Inequities and California Tribes
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- A report prepared by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center; by Carole Goldberg-Ambrose, J.D. and Duane Champagne, Ph. D.
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- A Brief History of the Ainu People (Japan)
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Ainu |
Asia |
- by Koichi Kaizawa (from NativeNet)
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- More sites on bioc09.uthscsa.edu
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- A Decade of Rhetoric for Indigenous Peoples
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- by Gerald Taiaiake Alfred and Jeff Corntassel - Indigenous Governance Program (IGOV) at the University of Victoria (Canada) - 12 January 2004
Few people may realize that we are living in the United Nations' International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995-2004). As the Decade comes to a close this year, it is apparent that the Decade has been remarkable only in the emptiness of the UN's rhetoric and in how so little has been done. |
- A Dime A Dozen: Essays by Jordan Dill
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US - Northeast |
- A collection of essays on contemporary news and historical events related to or involving First Nations peoples, by Jordan Dill, the author of the award-winning website, First Nations / Issues of Consequence.
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- More sites on dickshovel.com
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- Abuses Against Natives in Asylum in S. Dakota
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Lakota |
US - Central |
- Did you know...that Drapetomania - the insane urge of a slave to run away from a slavemaster -
was thought to be the only type of mental illness affecting slaves?
Did you know... that the federal government established a fully segregated asylum for "insane
Indians" in Canton South Dakota?
Pemina Yellow Bird is a psychiatric survivor activist who has begun to
explore the history of Native People in U.S. mental health systems. Download her manuscript: "Wild Indians: Native Perspectives on the
Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians."
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- American Indian Law Review
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United States |
- published by University of Oklahoma College of Law
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- More sites on www.law.ou.edu
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- American Indian Sovereignty - Now You See It, Now You Don't
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- by Peter d'Errico, University of Massachusetts/Amherst. Full text of the inaugural lecture in the American Indian Civics Project at Humboldt State University (Arcata, CA, USA), presented October 24, 1997, and
sponsored by the HSU Center for Indian Community Development.
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- More sites on www.umass.edu
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- Anticipating Ethnic Conflict
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United States |
- This document is the final product of a RAND Institute project entitled "Ethnic Conflict and the Processes of State
Breakdown: Improving Army Planning and Preparation."
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- More sites on www.rand.org
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- Apple Cede: First Nations Land Management Regime
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Canada |
- by Janice G.A.E. Switlo, attorney;
analysis and critique of "Canada's solution to decisively exterminate aboriginal title."
This is a PDF document. |
- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Asian Indigenous Women: Country Reports
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Asia |
- from the First Indigenous Women's Conference, Baguio City, The Philippines (1993)
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- More sites on bioc09.uthscsa.edu
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- Banishment (excerpts)
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- "Long before the development and implication of a unified American Judicial system, the worlds' cultures, inclusive of the Native American Indians,
recognized the issue of a civil aspect being associated with criminal law as a means of social control."
excerpts from a Brief Amicus Curie in regards to Native Indian Penal Practices; by Robert Ward |
- More sites on www.ableza.org
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- Bioethics: A Third World Issue
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- by Vandana Shiva
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- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Biotechnology: Here Come the Gene Hunters
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- by Johanna Son (review of documentary film about Human Genome Diversity Project)
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- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Black Mesa:
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Hopi |
US - Southwest |
- by John Dougherty (part one of two-part series, Phoenix Newtimes; April 24, 1997)
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- More sites on www.phoenixnewtimes.com
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- Black Mesa:
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Hopi |
US - Southwest |
- by John Dougherty (part two of two-part series, Phoenix Newtimes; May 1, 1997)
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- More sites on www.phoenixnewtimes.com
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- Bruce Clark Archives
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Canada |
- articles, legal documents, letters, etc., by a native rights lawyer in Canada who specializes in issues relating to jurisdiction and the constitution
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- More sites on sisis.nativeweb.org
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- Clash Over Native American Hunting Rights
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US - Northwest |
- By Paul S. Reed, 23 March 1998.
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- Columbus Day
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- Organized archive of articles from NativeNet-1492 Columbus Quincentenary project
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- Columbus Day, 1999
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- essay from Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly;
"Examining the nation's heroes may tell us something fundamental about our goals and values." |
- Comment: Rice v. Cayetano - Justice Department Evidence Contradicts Supreme Court
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Kanaka Maoli |
US - Hawaii |
- "The Kanaka Maoli (indigenous Hawaiians), virtually all of whom opposed U.S. annexation, and most of whom did not become citizens of the so-called Republic of Hawaii, have never been rightfully subject to the constitution of the United States."
By Steven T. Newcomb |
- More sites on ili.nativeweb.org
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- Comment: Pope Asks Forgiveness - Will The Vatican Repeal The Inter Caetera?
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- "The International Theological Commission says that the church is "not afraid of the truth that emerges from history." We must now wait to see if we can take the Vatican at its word, and whether a papal revocation of the Vatican's doctrine of subjugation will accompany the pope's noble words of contrition."
By Steven T. Newcomb |
- More sites on ili.nativeweb.org
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- Considerations for Achieving "Aboriginal Justice" in Canada
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Canada |
- by Ted S. Palys, Simon Fraser University
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- More sites on www.sfu.ca
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- Cree Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come's Speech at Harvard University
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Cree |
Canada - Eastern |
- October 28, 1996
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- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Crimes Against Humanity
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- by Ward Churchill (the use of native names, images and symbols as sports team mascots)
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- More sites on www.dickshovel.com
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- DAY OF SHAME: Public Statement Regarding Denial of Clemency for Leonard Peltier
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- Leonard Peltier Defense Committee: "We were both shocked and saddened by President Clinton's decision to deny executive clemency to Leonard
Peltier."
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- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Diego Garcia
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Ilois |
Chagos Archipelago |
- by Alex Doherty
Diego Garcia, part of the Chagos archipelago at the heart of the Indian Ocean, was severed from the mainland in 1965 to create the British Indian Ocean Territory. The British then leased the island to the United States to establish a military outpost. To state that the Ilois inhabitants were “relocated” is certainly factually correct. It does not, to say the least, tell the whole story, which can be called ‘ethnic cleansing by stealth.” |
- More sites on www.zmag.org
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- Diego Garcia: The ‘criminal question’ doctrine
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Ilois |
Chagos Archipelago |
- by Charles Judson Harwood Jr.
Beginning in 1971, the U.S. constructed an Air Force base on Diego Garcia, a coral atoll in the middle of the Indian Ocean. In preparation for this, from 1967 to 1973, British officials and military officers – for a secret fee of $14 million, paid by the U.S. military – forcibly evicted, arrested, detained, deported, and excluded permanently from their homeland the entire indigenous Ilois population, an ethnic-cleansing which (as they secretly admitted at the time) violated the United Nations Charter and other U.S. and international law and, as a British Court ruled 30 years later, British domestic law as well. |
- Ending Violent Crime
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Wampanoag |
US - Northeast |
- Full text of book by an elder of the Wampanoag Tribal Nation, Manitonquat, about his work in prison programs over the last 30 years.
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- Environmental Justice at Yucca Mountain
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Shoshone |
US - Southwest |
- An Analysis of the U.S. Department of Energy "Draft Environmental Impact Statement" For the Proposed Nuclear Waste Repository At Yucca Mountain; by Leuren Moret, Past President, Association for Women Geoscientists.
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- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in North America and Kosovo
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- "What is to be said of the irony of bringing in Apache helicopters, or tomahawk cruise missiles to rain down NATO's bombs of fury on the Milosevic regime in Yugoslavia? The unself-conscious ease with which the United States and its NATO allies use the names and symbols of Indigenous North American peoples to describe the weaponry in their arsenal, surely speaks to the paradoxes of this bring-in-the-new-millenium war."
by Dr. Anthony Hall, University of Lethbridge (Canada) |
- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Gaelhouse
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Tlingit |
US - Alaska |
- A story of how it is that an indigenous people of Southeast Alaska are the true owners of Kuiu Island. The Kuiu Kwaan and the other Thlingit Nations are indigenous to the land included within the Alexander Archipelago.
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- More sites on www.geocities.com
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- Genocide on the Great Plains
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US - Central |
- by James Horsley
part of an effort to rename the Washita Battlefield National
Historical Site the Washita National Historical Site of Genocide |
- More sites on www.dickshovel.com
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- Heroes of Wounded Knee Creek
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Lakota |
US - Central |
- by Bob Smith; an article about the Medals of Honor awarded to those who massacred the people at Wounded Knee in 1890.
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- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Histories of Convenience: Understanding Twentieth Century Aboriginal Film Images in Context
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- by Ted S. Palys, Simon Fraser University (science, policy, and film portrayals of Aboriginal peoples over the last 100 years)
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- More sites on www.sfu.ca
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- How the Sentence on Indigenous Peoples Got into the Johannesburg Political Declaration
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- By Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Executive Director, TEBTEBBA Foundation.
The representatives of indigenous peoples met at Kimberly, South Africa for the "Indigenous Peoples' International
Summit on Sustainable Development" from 19-23 August 2002. One of the objectives of this Summit was to come up
with a strategy on how to influence the outcome of the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz of Tebtebba gives a personal account of their success and provides an analysis on what this means for indigenous
peoples. |
- More sites on www.tebtebba.org
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- Ideology, Epistemology, and Modes of Inquiry
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- subtitle: "Aboriginal Issues, Trajectories of Truth, and the Criteria of Evaluation Research," by Ted S. Palys, Simon Fraser University
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- More sites on www.sfu.ca
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- Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA): Need for a Separate Law
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- by B.J. Jones, litigation director for Dakota Plains Legal Services.
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- Indian health is being bushwhacked
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- Albuquerque Tribune article. Instead of cutting staff and services at Albuquerque's Indian Health Services clinic, officials should be doubling physicians, nurses and space to serve the city's growing American Indian population.
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- Indian Identity - Who's drawing the boundaries?
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United States |
- by Rekha Balu; published by the American Bar Association. Explores issues of "tribal enrollment."
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- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Indian Usufructuary Rights in Ceded Territories
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Chippewa |
US - Central |
- by Attorney Stephen P. Dresch. Analysis of Indian Treaty Rights and Private Property Rights and the Reach of State Regulation.
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- Indigenous Declaration Regarding the Human Genome Diversity Project
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US - Alaska |
- Hosted by Alaska Native Knowledge Network
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- More sites on www.ankn.uaf.edu
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- Indigenous Law Journal Homepage
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Canada - Eastern |
- This is the home page of the new Indigenous Law Journal, a University of Toronto publication. The Journal is student-run and was initiated and suported by the Native Law Student Association members. This journal will provide a forum for the debate of issues regarding Indigenous Law and Law as it applies to Indigenous peoples.
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- Indigenous People, Law, and Politics in Peru
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America - South |
- by Joanna Drzewieniecki (State University of New York/Buffalo)
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- More sites on www.lanic.utexas.edu
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- INDIGENOUS PEOPLES and the THIRD WAY
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Europe & Russia |
- By Aidan Rankin. A position statement issued by Third Way, a UK political party which advocates the decentralisation
of power through constitutional reform and the creation of a society in
which wealth is more equitably distributed.
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- Indigenous Peoples: Rights and Aspirations
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- by Ann Stewart, from Peacework Magazine (March, 1996); commentary on UN Draft Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Janice G.A.E. Switlo
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Canada - Western |
- Janice works on access to justice for Indigenous Peoples domestically and internationally. Her publications are read worldwide and she educates and empowers Peoples by providing strategic advice on current political, policy, legal and economic issues and objectives.
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- John Marshall: Indian Lover?
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United States |
- by Peter d'Errico (originally published in Journal of the West)
Far from being an "advocate for Indians," Chief Justice John Marshall may be seen as advocating a concept of "tribal quasi-sovereignty," to protect the chain of land title derived from royal grants and colonial "discovery." Marshall's adoption of "Christian discovery" as the foundation of land title in the United States is a subjugation of indigenous peoples to 15th century theological and colonial legalisms, in derogation of their status as free and independent nations. |
- More sites on www.umass.edu
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- Judge's eye view of the Waitangi Tribunal
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Aotearoa-New Zealand |
- Kevin Gover: Briefcase Warrior
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Cherokee |
US - Central |
- "Kevin Gover is an Indian lawyer, a briefcase warrior. With that status comes responsibility and conflict. The responsibility is to protect Indian people and
what little property they have left. The conflicts are many. I suspect that Kevin Gover, during his tenure with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, has fallen into some of the gaps between theory and
practice."
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- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Means Testing Indian Governments: Taxing What Works
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United States |
- A critique of Sen. Slade Gorton's attempt to tax Indian governments, and a commentary on American Indian economics.
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- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Mouvement Culturel Berbere (Berber Cultural Movement)
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Berber |
Africa |
- by Abdenour-Augustin Benyahia, Berber Cultural Movement Representative in Switzerland; in French
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- MSJM Indian Law Papers
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- A collection of articles on American Indian Law topics, including tax, natural resources damages, ICWA, cultural resources, jurisdiction, etc.
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- Multinationals and the United Nations: A Working Paper
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- by Prof. John Bonsignore
"Indigenous people are both inside and outside conventional law-government systems, national through international, an odd position for people who have often been in a place from time out of mind."
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- More sites on www.umass.edu
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- Ovide Mercredi at Save Canada Conference
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Cree |
Canada - Eastern |
- speech delivered by Ovide Mercredi, a First Nations leader in Canada, to the participants at the Save Canada Conference in Ottawa,
Ontario, August 21, 1999.
"We the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas understand all too well that our survival and future is linked to the maintenance of our separate and distinct
identity, and to the free exercise of our inherent self determination within our territories." |
- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Passions & Law: A Haudenosaunee Perspective
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Haudenosaunee |
Canada - Eastern |
- by Kanatiyosh (Barbara Gray)
"I will examine how narratives provide cultures with a medium in which to teach the values, mores,
and laws of acceptable behavior to the community. I will do so by examining and comparing The Oresteia, a
Greek drama from antiquity, with the Great Law of Peace, a founding narrative of the Haudenosaunee
Confederacy that dates back to 1142 AD." |
- More sites on www.tuscaroras.com
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- Political Asylum for Lakota Activist Little Rock Reed
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Lakota |
US - Southwest |
- by Mike Adams, Indian Country Today reporter
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- More sites on www.geocities.com
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- PRISON AT NIGHT: Native Spirituality Behind Bars
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US - Northeast |
- an essay about a lawsuit in behalf of a Native American Spiritual Awareness Council in a Massachusetts
prison
by Peter d'Errico |
- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Racism on the Flathead reservation
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Flathead |
US - Northwest |
- Focusing on personal experiences of racism
from my youth to my present tenure as an employee for the
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, I attempt to provide a
rational explanation for these experiences.
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- Report to UN by Taroko People of Taiwan (1997)
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Taroko |
Asia |
- "Our Experience of the Incursion of Cement Companies onto the Land of the Taroko People, Hwalien, Taiwan"
by Igung Shiban (Tien Chun-Chou) |
- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Restorative Justice in an Aboriginal Context
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Maori |
Canada |
- by Natasha Schleich, honours Anthropology Student at McMaster University (Canada)
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- Roles Of Non-Hawaiians in the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement
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Kanaka Maoli |
US - Hawaii |
- By Anthony Castanha; University of Hawai'i Master's thesis in Political Science, with supporting documents
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- Seminole Decision could be the victory that lost the war
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United States |
- by Charles J. Irwin, Esq.
commentary on the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Seminole v. Florida |
- Soul Wound: The Legacy of Native American Schools
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United States |
- By Andrea Smith, Amnesty Now, Summer 2003 (pp. 14-17).
U.S. and Canadian authorities took Native children from their homes and tried to school, and sometimes beat, the Indian out them. Now Native Americans are fighting the theft of language, of culture, and of childhood itself. |
- More sites on www.amnestyusa.org
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- STATEMENT BY LEONARD PELTIER After Denial of Clemency, January 2001
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United States |
- January 20, 2001, was a sad day for all of us. I know that this denial of clemency has affected many of you as much as it has affected both my family and
myself. It is a terrible feeling and disappointment knowing that this nightmare has not ended and will continue for many months to come.
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- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Subsistence Hunting in Alaska
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US - Alaska |
- effects of current subsistence hunting regulations
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- Take Heed - Trouble Coming
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Choctaw |
US - Southwest |
- by Standing Deer
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- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Taking Back "The Rock" (Alcatraz)
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US - West |
- by Ben Winton, in Native Peoples Magazine; "Thirty
years ago this fall (1999), the American Indian
occupation of Alcatraz transformed the lives of
Native peoples. How does it look today?"
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- More sites on www.nativepeoples.com
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- The Circle Game: Shadows and Substance in the Indian Residential School Experience in Canada
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Canada |
- A Report to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, by Roland D. Chrisjohn, Ph. D., & Sherri L. Young, M. A., with contributions by Michael Maraun, Ph. D.
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- More sites on www.treaty7.org
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- The Colville Tribe Blazes the Trail
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Colville |
US - Northwest |
- by Peter Donovan; how and why the Colville Confederated Tribes of eastern Washington adopted holistic management
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- The Forgotten Heritage: African-Amerindian Relations in America
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United States |
- by Walton L. Brown, from Proteus, Volume 9, Number 1, Fall 1992
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- The International Personality of Indigenous Peoples
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- by David Schneider & Dr. Louis Furmanski, University of Central Oklahoma
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- More sites on www.geocities.com
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- The new buffalo-but who got the meat?
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Pequot |
US - Northeast |
- critique of Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, by William G. Flanagan with James Samuelson (Forbes magazine)
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- The Quincentennial: Native America at the Threshold
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US - Northeast |
- By Jon Reed
"There is no statute of limitations on fraud." In this ambitious piece, Jon takes on the turbulent history of Native
Americans, specifically of those in Western Massachusetts. Through interviews with local Indians and advocates, he
uncovers some hidden history, sheds light on the ongoing struggle for energy resources, and explores alternative
ways to celebrate the Quincentennial. Jon concludes that "despite the barriers of prejudice and poverty, there is
legitimate cause for hope" for unexpected reasons. [As originally published in The Valley Optimist in June, 1992.] |
- To Shout Into the Wind
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- by Jordan S. Dill ("treaties" and "sovereignty")
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- More sites on www.dickshovel.com
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- Towards a Maori Criminal Justice System
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Maori |
Aotearoa-New Zealand |
- by Noaia Arena Napia
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- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Traveling the Spiritual Path: The Struggle for Native American Religious Freedom
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- by Laura Brooks
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- More sites on www.dickshovel.com
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- Tribal Lands Conference - Audio Archive
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US - Northeast |
- Talks presented at the conference "From the Arctic to Amazonia: Industrialized Nations' Exploitation of Tribal Lands," which was held 22-24 September, 1989, at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. RealAudio(tm) files encoded and produced by Gary Trujillo.
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- More sites on nativenet.uthscsa.edu
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- Tribal Law as Indigenous Social Reality and Separate Consciousness
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Pueblo |
US - Southwest |
- by Christine Zuni Cruz
An essay on
"[Re]Incorporating Customs and Traditions into Tribal Law" |
- More sites on tlj.unm.edu
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- Tribal Law Journal
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- The purpose of the Tribal Law Journal is to promote indigenous self-determination by facilitating discussion of the internal law of the worldÕs indigenous nations. Published by the University of New Mexico School of Law.
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- More sites on tlj.unm.edu
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- Tribal Sovereignty
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Penobscot |
US - Northeast |
- By Mark A. Chavaree, Esq., Tribal Staff Attorney for the
Penobscot Nation and member of the Board of Directors for Pine Tree Legal Assistance.
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- More sites on www.ptla.org
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- Two Kinds of Beings: The Doctrine of Discovery
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- by Robert Francis
If you actually believe that American Indians are, in fact, persons and that American Indian tribes and nations are, in fact, peoples, then I challenge you to do something to prove your belief. Educate yourself on these issues. |
- More sites on www.manataka.org
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- United States Constitution: An Haudenosaunee Perspective
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Haudenosaunee |
Canada - Eastern |
- by Kanatiyosh (Barbara Gray)
"In this paper, the Great Law of Peace (also known as the Iroquois Constitution) will be discussed through the perspective of a
Haudenosaunee to show how the Confederacy functions. The influence that the Great Law of Peace had on the founding fathers and on
the United States Constitution, as well as the interaction between the great Mohawk orators and the founding fathers, will be
discussed." |
- More sites on www.tuscaroras.com
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- Voices of the Wintercount
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- original, unedited comments by people taking a stand for their way of life
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- We are here. We have arrived.
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Mexico |
- Speech by Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos, EZLN. March 11, 2001 in the Zocalo of Mexico City.
Translated by irlandesa. |
- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- We Must do the Necessary Thinking for Them
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- by Jordan S. Dill (the "legal" basis of colonization)
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- More sites on www.dickshovel.com
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- What Is In Your Heart They Cannot Take
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Choctaw |
US - Southwest |
- by Standing Deer
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- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Where Cultures Clash: Native Peoples and A Fair Trial
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Canada - Eastern |
- by Timothy T. Daley, B.A.,B.Ed.,M.S.W.,LL.B., Family and Youth Court Judge, Province of Nova Scotia
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- More sites on www.acjnet.org
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- Who Represents Indigenous People In Ottawa Canada?
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Mohawk |
Canada - Eastern |
- Speech by the President of the Canadian Alliance in Solidarity with the Native Peoples, Kahn-Tineta Horn, January 29, 1999, at the University of Toronto
Faculty of Law "35th Annual Conference on Law and Contemporary Affairs."
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- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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