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Peggy Lowry, a member of the SAIIC Committee, recently returned from a trip to Chile, where she had the opportunity to visit several Mapuche communities and organizations. In the following comments she talks about what she learned.

Cultural Survival Canada is new organization that is working to ensure the rights of indigenous communities in the face of biocolonialism.

The gifts or the Creator, which many indigenous groups admire are endanger in today's society. These gifts have enabled indigenous peoples to survive five centuries of colonialism and to continue to nurture an extraordinary diversity and richness of…

Transcription of speech given on June 29, 1991 by Ampan Karakra, a member of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador.

The pro-English governments of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay established the Triple Alliance and declared war on Paraguay to destroy the newly-formed Paraguayan state.

Days to remember in history. Events of major significance.

Rufino Dominguez discusses the Organization of Exploited and Oppressed Peoples and its origins in Oaxaca and its role in fighting for indigenous rights in Baja California.

Missionary Irma Cleusa, coordinator of the Regional Indigenous Council of Peru in northern Brazil, was found assassinated.

We were saddened this month by the death of two visionaries and leaders in the Indian community.

Debra Harry is a Northern Paiute who has spent the last twenty years working to protect the rights and resources of Native Americans.

This article is an abbreviated report of the second meeting of Continental Encounter of Indigenous Peoples, Nations and Organizations that took place at Temoaya, Mexico on October 8-13, 1993 and the article outlines the goals the organization wishes…

The Barbados group has released another statement calling for the effective integration of indigenous into political processes, which needs to be done in a way that recognizes their differences from capitalist democratic systems.