Indigenous peoples all over the world are nowadays struggling to recover their ancestral lands, to obtain redress for centuries of oppres­sion and even to establish some form of self-government as one, and only one, way of exercising their right to self-determination. Some would like to enter into a modest scheme of self-government e.g. a sort of municipal authority as a first step in the dire...

IWGIA's Annual Report presents the results of IWGIA's activities in 1993 and highlights examples of projects and processes implemented or supported by IWGIA throughout the year.

This issue of Indigenous Affairs contains articles from Hawai'i, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Canada and Tanzania.

This Newsletter contains articles from Brazil, Ecuador, Canada, United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Uruguay.

This Newsletter contains articles from The Arctic, Philippines, Amazon, Africa, Peru, Guatemala, Brasil, United States.

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

The Newsletter contains articles from North Africa, Mali, Namibia, Zaïre, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Sudan.

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...

Kinship, coincidences and the desire to do 'anthropology at home triggered our interest and involvement in the Tasaday hoax and subsequent study on the T'boli. In August 1986 Duhaylungsod attended the International Conference on the Tasaday Controversy and other Urgent Anthropological Issues at the University of the Philippines at Diliman, which was the first professional examination of the contro...

This Newsletter contains articles from the Arctic and the Nordic Countries, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Malaysia, Sudan, Tanzania, Russia, Burma.

This Newsletter contains articles from Bangladesh, The Arctic, Russia, Kurile Islands, United States, Aotearoa, Burma, Philippines, Thailand, Australia, Canada, Argentina.

This Newsletter contains articles from Philippines, China, India, Russia, Saami Land, Mexico, Nagaland.

This Newsletter contains articles from Venezuela, Paraguay, Mexico, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Botswana, Philippines, Malaysia.

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.

This Newsletter contains articles from Canada, India, West Papua, Brazil, Malaysia, Israel, Peru, Guatemala, Hawai'i, Alaska.

When the Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission visited the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in December 1990 1 the autocratic regime of President Ershad had just been overthrown by a popular uprising. After a short transitional period, under acting President Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed, parliamentary elections were held on February 27 1991. The elections were won by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) le...

In March 1990, members of Canada's Parliamentary Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs listened to testimony presented by Inuit (Eskimos) who had been the subject of a 1950s government relocation experiment. The Inuit recounted years of suffering and neglect as a result of their resettlement. Eleven Inuit families had been moved by the Canadian government from the region of Port Harrison (now I...

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. Translation from Portuguese: Edda Frost and Sam Poole  

IWGIA's Annual Report presents the results of IWGIA's activities in 1991 and highlights examples of projects and processes implemented or supported by IWGIA throughout the year.

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 Newsletter contains articles from Argentina, Australia, Palau, Bougainville, Brazil, Canada, East Timor, Mexico, Paraguay, Taiwan, Tanzania, U.S.S.R.

This Newsletter contains articles from The horn of Africa, Tibet, Alaska, Australia, Chile, Nicaragua, Bolivia, East Timor, Canada.

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

This Newsletter contains articles from Tanzania, Mali, Botswana, Brazil, Argentine, Peru, U.S.S.R., Canada, Burma, Bangladesh, Saamiland.

The Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission is an independent body established to investigate allegations of human rights violations in the hill region of southeast Bangladesh. In November 1990, the Commission received permission from the governments of India and Bangladesh to visit the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) and the camps in Tripura where people forced to flee their homes in the Hill Tracts now l...

IWGIA's Annual Report presents the results of IWGIA's activities in 1990 and highlights examples of projects and processes implemented or supported by IWGIA throughout the year.