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Indians Caught up in Climate of War (Colombia)

Tags: Cauca, Colombia, Manuel Quintin Lame

Inspired by Manuel Quintin Lame, an
Indian leader who was killed at the turn of the
century for defending Indian land, CRIC
began to take back land and stop paying rent.

Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon Hold International Meeting (Amazonia)

Tags: ACIPY, AIDESEP, Bolivia, Brazil, CIDOB, Colombia, CONFENAIE, Ecuador, La Coordinadora, ONIC, Peru, Surinam, Treaty of Amazon Cooperation, TUNASARAPA, UNI, Venezuela

Sixty delegates from Indian organizations originating in seven Amazonian countries, met in May of 1988 to hold the third meeting of La Coordinadora to discuss massacres and other political problems plaguing their tribes.

Mexico and Colombia

Tags: Alvaro Vasquez, Colombia, Mexico, Pueblo Nuevo

Alvaro Vasquez, representative of the Assembly of Zapotec and Chinantec Peoples of the Oaxaca Sierra was in the San Francisco Bay Area to organize an exposition of Zapotec-Chinantec lithographs and to show videos about his people.

ONIC Publication Celebrates Tenth Anniversary (Colombia)

Tags: Bogota, Cauca, Colombia, guerrilla, Javier Delgado

At present in Colombia there is a climate of war between the government and guerrilla forces. The army has occupied the Cauca region and the air force is continuously bombing.

The Right to Love and Politics: An Indigenous Activist's Perspective

Tags: Chami, Colombia, Indian woman activist, Yagarf Gonzalez Eulalia

Eulalia Yagarf Gonzalez. a Chami woman activist in Colombia. was elected as a member of the
regional parliament of Antioquia on March 8. 1992. In this interview she discussesf her life and hardships as an Indian woman activist.

Three Indian People Elected by Nationa Constitutional Assembly

Three_Indian_People_Elected_To_National_Constitutional_Assembly.pdf

Tags: Colombia, National Constitutional Assembly, reform

Three indians elected the the ANC help give a voice to the 600,000 Indians of Colombia.

Venezuela and Colombia

Tags: Cauca, Colombia, self-liberation, Tolima, Venezuela

The Venezuelan government continues to deny the right of self-liberation, self-determination, and self-management to the indigenous peoples of Venezuela.

Vol. 2, No. 1 (Fall 1985)

Tags: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dan Bomberry, Ecuador, Fall 19785, Mexico, Peru, Phillip Deere, UNITED NATIONS WORKING GROUP ON INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS

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Vol. 2, No. 2 (Winter 1986)

Tags: Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Peru, SANTA FE CONGRESS, Winter 1986

Vol. 2, No. 4 (Summer 1986)

Tags: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Huilliche Indians, Human Rights activists missing, Mapuche, Peru, Rapa Nui, Refugees, rondonia, Summer 1986, Violence

Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer 1987)

Tags: Balau, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Earthquake in Indian Community, Ecuador, El Salvador, Evangelical Proselytizing, Mapuche, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, rebirth of Mayan spirituality, religious conversion, SIL, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Women in Peru, Yanomami, Zapotec

This issue of the SAIIC Newsletter covers a broad range of topics surrounding the main theme of evangelical proselytizing (conversion) in South and Central America, along with the effects on Indian communities.

Wave of Violence in Colombia takes Heavy Toll on Indian Leaders

Tags: Colombia, Indigenous assassination, ONIC, San Andres de Sotaveno, Senu, Tolima

Indigenous leaders in Colombia have been under attack and subject to disappearances, torture, arbitrary detention, and even murder due to their struggle for rights granted to them in the Constitution.

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