The U.N.’s Man in Lakota Country

Jenni Monet
August 06, 2012
It has been a bumpy couple of months for Indian rights. The Violence Against Women Act is meeting opposition in Congress, Carcieri still isn’t fixed, and the U.S...

Indigenous Nations Prefer Citizenship to Secession, Though Some Have Tried

Duane Champagne
July 10, 2012
Stay or go? When it comes to Indian tribes and the United States, the answer has almost always been the former. And for that, there are many reasons. When the U.S...

Indigenous v. Indigenous; Bolivia’s Government Is Pitting One Community Against Another

Bill Weinberg
June 21, 2012
With a second cross-country protest march by indigenous rainforest dwellers and their allies advancing on La Paz, it was clear that Bolivia’s Indigenous Peoples are divided on Pres...

UNPFII Recommends Redress of Doctrine of Discovery Harm

Gale Courey Toensing
June 02, 2012
The 11 th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues ended with the acknowledgment that the racist Doctrine of Discovery continues to impact Indigenous Peop...

Bringing UNDRIP to the People Is Next Step for Indigenous Rights: Chief

ICTMN Staff
May 25, 2012
This year marks the fifth anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and First Nations chiefs are ready to take it to the nex...

World Government And World Citizens

Duane Champagne
May 26, 2012
Many pessimists think that the only way out of our economic and political challenges is by organizing a world government and designating everyone on this planet a “world citizen”...
Karla E. General

Securing Indigenous Rights to Sacred Places With the UN Declaration

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May 16, 2012

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...
Mark Charles

Mark Charles Addresses James Anaya, UNDRIP Rapporteur

During his official visit to the United States, I had the privilege of personally, and publicly, addressing James Anaya, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Below is a summary of the five-minute presentation I gave....

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May 14, 2012

Ancient Cultures Strive to Modernize 'Medieval' Western Notions at UNPFII

ICTMN Staff
May 10, 2012
As the 11th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) dissected the Doctrine of Discovery this week, peoples from ancient cultures worked to moder...

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