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The Urarina, an Amazonian group, have been threatened by an influx of diseases and an invasion of their land by oil companies aided by the SIL.

Native American languages are disappearing at a rapid rate, with increasingly negative consequences.

SAIIC interviews Valerio Grefa, who became the new Coordinator of the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Peoples' Organization of the Amazon Basin (COICA)

In 1978, the government of Venezuela, bypassing the Ye'Kuana peoples, declared Duida-Murahuaca a National Park and Orinoco-Casiquare a "Biospheric Reserve." According to the Ye'Kuana, government bureaucrats have systematically ignored their…

The contributors of the SAIIC Newsletter use their platform to call readers and supporters to action for the Siriono People in Trinidad who were fighting a group of cattle ranchers for their land.

A collection of Latin American countries are in the process of trying to ratify a Indigenous Peoples' Fund. The decison-making structure of the Fund ensures direct participation on the part of Inigenous peoples.

A leader of an Indian tribe was captured, tortured, and killed and the rest of the community was expelled from ancestral lands in November 1987.

Guadalupe de la Cruz Rios de la Rallanera talks about the importance of spirituality within her community.

Copies of letters written to the SAICC staff.