When the United Nations approved the Study on Treaties, Agreements and other Constructive Arrangements between States and Indigenous Peoples in May 1989, Treaty Six Chiefs invited the Special Rapporteur, Miguel Alfonso Martínez, to attend an Elders and Treaty Six Chiefs' meeting. The meeting was not an attempt to make a historical reconstruction. It was a spiritual and descriptive re-creation of ...

This book aims to examine and critically analyse the possible legal mechanisms and processes which could be used by indigenous peoples in the protection and management of their cultural and intellectual property. This IWGIA document studies the historic and legal context in which the debate on the rights of indigenous peoples has developed and analyses mechanisms such as the Convention on Biologic...

The book is a compilation of the proceedings of the conference of the same title held in May 1995 in Zürich, Switzerland, supplemented by a few other relevant articles on the issue. The authors of the articles are well known environmentalists, indigenous and non-indigenous scholars and activists like Pedro Garcia Hierro, Prasert Trakansuphakon, Darell A. Posey, Jeffrey A. McNeely, Sona Jharia Min...

IWGIA's Annual Report presents the results of IWGIA's activities in 1996 and highlights examples of projects and processes implemented or supported by IWGIA throughout the year.

The history of frontier settlement in South America has been characterized by a rather uneven penetration towards the interior of the continent. At the time of the formation of South American repub­lics, the areas of dense demographic concentration were confined to the Coast-highland strip along most of Western South America and part of the eastern coast of present day Brazil (Butland 1966196)...

The Akuriyo of Surinam are a Carib speaking population which numbers at the moment about 60. Until 1970 they knew a completely nomadic way of life, hunting and gathering in the forests of Southeast Surinam, on the Oelemari, Litani and Loe rivers, or rather on the smaller tributary creeks. Occasionally some of them drifted into Brazil (Paru river area).

In October, indigenous peoples once again travel the well-worn route to Geneva to participate in the second meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights´openended Working Group which is discussing the draft Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Although a technical meeting the discussion is critical because it provides indigenous peoples with an opportunity to try to explai...

This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1995 and 1996 among indigenous peoples in Asia, Africa, the Arctic, the Pacific and the Americas. Out of print!

The Saami call their territory Sapmi. Conceptually, the term encompasses the geographical area, the Saami territory and the Saami people, all in one. The land and the peo­ple are intrinsically united. During. the colonisation of Sapmi. the territory and the people were divided between four different nation-states. This is to say that. among other things, the Saami as a peo­ple became ...

Rapport d'évaluation de la situation des Twa et pour la promotion des droits des Twa dans le Rwanda d'après-guerre. Traduit par Jean-Claude Monod.

The first months of 1996 have been dominated by devastation facing the indigenous peoples of Brazil. Justice Minister Nelson Johim in De­cree 1775. has opened up 344 reserves (57 percent of all indigenous territories in the country) to claims by any com­pany, local authority or individual. This not only threatens already demarcated lands and territories but allows the indigenous peoples a...

This volume brings together the main statements and interventions made by the International Alliance of Indigenous-Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests at various international fora. The statements constitute a pooling of indigenous peoples’ views and experiences from all around the tropics and have been shaped by our millennial association with our traditional territories. Our first acknowled...

The data and conclusions presented in this volume were drawn from a series of research and consultancy projects carried out in Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

This book is a compilation of proceedings from a Conference on Indigenous Peoples in South and Southeast Asia. Contents feature chapters on: The Concept of Indigenous Peoples in Asia; Juridical Rights and the Relation with the State and the Non-Indigenous Populations; Indigenous Movements and Forms of Organisation; Perspectives on the Future and conclusions from the conference. The conference was ...

IWGIA's Annual Report presents the results of IWGIA's activities in 1995 and highlights examples of projects and processes implemented or supported by IWGIA throughout the year.

This book contains a compilation of texts about the Small Indigenous Peoples of the Russian North and Far East. The Selected documents, letters and articles concerning the numerically small peoples of the North and their association (Now: RAIPON) were compiled by Alexander Pika, scientist and prominent participant in the movement for the rights of the indigenous peoples that started in the late 19...

This issue of Indigenous Affairs contains articles from Burma, Bangladesh, Greenland, Guatemala and Nigeria.

This issue of Indigenous Affairs contains articles from Kalahari, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Mexico, Peru, USA, Alaska and Greenland.

This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1994 and 1995 among indigenous peoples in Asia, Africa, the Arctic, the Pacific and the Americas.

This issue of Indigenous Affairs contains articles from India, Algeria, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, Brazil, Chile, Samiland and Canada.

This document is concerned with the transformations within Chiapas Mayan communities that make processes of change visible. The focus is the period from 1974 when the first hemispheric congress of indigenous people took place in San Cristobal de las Casas, to the Zapatista uprising and the turbulent forces released by it. It takes into account the continuities and disjunctures in community organiz...

Assessment of the situation of the Twa and promotion of Twa rights in post-war Rwanda.

IWGIA's Annual Report presents the results of IWGIA's activities in 1994 and highlights examples of projects and processes implemented or supported by IWGIA throughout the year.

This issue of Indigenous Affairs contains articles from Greenland, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, East Timor and the Philippines.

This issue of Indigenous Affairs contains articles from Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Easter Island, Canada, Algeria, Mali and Australia.

This issue of Indigenous Affairs contains articles from India, Burma, China, Philippines, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Samiland and Guyana.

This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1993 and 1994 among indigenous peoples in Asia, Africa, the Arctic, the Pacific and the Americas.

This issue of Indigenous Affairs contaings articles from Botswana, Peru, India, The Arctic and USA.