Global Indigenous Women's Caucus Meeting Sets Priorities for UNPFII

Gale Courey Toensing
May 22, 2013
The Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus focused on the issues of health, education, and culture during a preparatory meeting prior to the 12 th session of the United Nations Permanent...
Steven Newcomb

U.S. Colonialism: The Cornerstone of U.S. Indian Policy

Indian nations have been dealing politically with the imperial momentum of the United States ever since the 13 British colonies along the Atlantic Seaboard of North America declared themselves to be free and independent states in the late eighteenth century....

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April 25, 2013
Milford Wayne Donaldson

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Helps Make History While Preserving Heritage

The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) has a good deal of recent news that is of particular importance to Indian country and that I would like to share with you....

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April 11, 2013

Elections 2012: Vice Presidential Debate – Is the United States Doing Enough for Native Americans?

Mark Trahant
October 10, 2012
It’s too bad that Al Jazeera’s host of The Stream , Lisa Fletcher, is not moderating the vice presidential debate...

Video Spotlight: Children Read U.N. Declaration as Fifth Anniversary Shows Lack of Progress

ICTMN Staff
September 13, 2012
Five years ago today, on September 13, 2007, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was ratified ...
T. Lulani Arquette

A Paradigm Shift Has Begun: Addressing Social Justice and Racial Equity

Let me make it clear: I don’t write to denounce present-day Catholicism or the Christian faith....

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September 07, 2012

UNPFII Chairman, Grand Chief Edward John Discusses the Power of Indigenous Storytelling

Jenni Monet
August 14, 2012
NEW YORK - Diplomats, journalists and media activists from around the globe turned out at United Nations headquarters on Thursday, August 9 th for the 18 th annual International Da...

Peru's Indigenous Band Together to Protect Their Lands and Water Rights

Barbara Fraser
May 15, 2012
As a teenager two decades ago, Ruth Buendía saw the Asháninka communities in Peru’s central Amazonian lowlands torn apart by violence as the Shining Path guerrillas kidnapped, kill...

Amazon Indigenous Groups Fight New Law That Would Allow Foreign Companies on Their Land

Darrin Mortenson
April 16, 2012
It has been said that oil and gas companies follow a bible of sorts here in the jungles of Peru, a universal playbook of their most effective methods for convincing locals that a p...

U.N.: Canada Continues Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples

Gale Courey Toensing
March 14, 2012
The federal government of Canada has not addressed the issue of persistent poverty among Indigenous Peoples, nor has it implemented the right to free, prior and informed consent be...

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