IWGIA has published over the years on developments in Hawai 'i, with pieces by some of the contributors to the present document. This is the firs t full fledged attempt to present the Hawaiian situation to the international community. It covers both the his tory of Hawai 'i, the general situation today and a number of case studies documenting but a few of the many struggles that are taking place. ...

Proceedings of the seminar on arrangements for self-determination by indigenous peoples within national states, 10-11 February, 1994, Law Faculty, University of Amsterdam

This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1992 among indigenous peoples.

The present volume contains the papers that came out of a con­ference on "The Question of Indigenous Peoples in Africa" jointly organised by The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) and the Centre for Development Research (CDR) in Co­penhagen. It is not the intention that the papers contained in this volume provide an exhaustive tour of indigenous groups of people in Afr...

This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1992 among indigenous peoples in Asia, Africa, the Arctic, the Pacific and the Americas. Out of print!

This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1991 among indigenous peoples. Out of print!

This document conatains an unedited work of high scientific value on the consequences of the contruction of the Amazonian highways on indigenous populations, non-indigenous people who also use the Amazon and on the environment.  

Den 12. oktober 1992 var det 500 år siden Columbus kom til Amerika. Med Columbus' færd over havet var grunden lagt til koloniseringen af den oprindelige indfødte befolkning - indianerne i Nord- og Sydamerika. For 500 år siden tilhørte Amazonas regnskovsindianerne. I dag er indianerne i Amazonas - som indfødte folk over hele kloden - truet af nybyggere, guldgravere, tømmerbaroner osv. Med ek...

This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1990 among indigenous peoples.

When the survival of the rainfores is under discussion, the rights of indigenous peoples are too often ignored, treated as a low priority or relegated to the footnotes of glossy report. Indigenous peoples have demonstrated that they are the best conservers of their environment which they use and manage according to their own cultural premises. In addition indigenous peoples consider themselves as ...

This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1991 among indigenous peoples in Asia, Africa, the Arctic, the Pacific and the Americas. Out of print!

This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1990 among indigenous peoples in Asia, Africa, the Arctic, the Pacific and the Americas. Out of print!

This document is a presentation and an analysis of the present conflicts of interests between the anti-hunting movement and the indigenous peoples of the Arctic. The right of indigenous peoples to subsistence and economic development based on renewable resources in their homelands will be the focal issue. The anti-hunting movement is an ongoing threat to the survival of indigenous peoples. A solut...

This document, the second of two volumes, is a collection of articles concerning the problems and issues confronting the indigenous nations of North America. Loss of lands and resources at the hands of contemporary nation-states such as the U.S. and Canada, as well as cultural "assimilation" policies undertaken by these states, have placed Native North America in grave peril. Both the na...

This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1989 among indigenous peoples.

In the last few days of March 1990 indigenous peoples of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic met in the Kremlin to establish their first country-wide association. This document is from, and about, this meeting which resulted in the establishment of the "Association of the Small Indigenous Peoples of the Soviet North"

This first volume of "Indigenous Women on the Move" is composed of 9 articles written by indigenous women wherein they have attempted to show their distinct realities in their different areas of the world. But distinct realities, notwithstanding, and each with their own peculiarities, indigenous women share a common situation, that of being the object of threefold oppression: the oppression by gen...

Madang Province, Papua New Guinea - an area of tropical rainforest. With the proliferation of transnational timber companies, "development" has come to the area. Papua New Guinea's more than 700 societies have now become dependent on commercial logging. This document deals with one such project - the Kumil Timber Project. In contrast to other areas of tropical rainforest, land and resources are in...

This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1989 among indigenous peoples in Asia, Africa, the Arctic, the Pacific and the Americas. Out of print!

This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1988 among indigenous peoples.

This document describes the cultural genocide of the indigenous peoples of Paraguay by the New Tribes Mission. The fundamentalists missionaries of the NTM have been particularly destructive among the Ayoreode of the Chaco, and the document looks at how the destruction has increased over the last thirty years. The author places the work of the NTM ia a historical context stretching back to the time...

Proceedings of the IWGIA Symposium at the Congress of Americanists, Amsterdam 1988

This document, the first of two volumes, is a collection of articles comparing the problems and issues facing the indigenous nations of North America. Loss of lands and resources at the hands of contemporary nation-states such as the U.S. and Canada, as well as cultural "assimilation" policies undertaken by these states, have placed Native North America in grave peril. Both the nature of the threa...

This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1988 among indigenous peoples in Asia, Africa, the Arctic, the Pacific and the Americas. Out of print!

This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1987 among indigenous peoples.

This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1987 among indigenous peoples in Asia, Africa, the Arctic, the Pacific and the Americas. Out of print!