It is now generally agreed that, along with land invasion, the single most important factor in the extermination of the original peoples of the Americas has been disease. In South America, the rapid disappearance of Amazonian Indians, has been inextricably linked to the spread of infectious diseases carried to the continent from the Old World (cf Kroeger and Barbira-Freedman 1982). According to on...

This document examines the evolution of development policies in Tanzania and their impact on a pastoral people -the Maasai of northern Tanzania. At the most general level it deals with the relationship between the state and the peasantry in Tanzania. Rural development policies are seen as one expression of this relationship. The evolution of development policies in Tanzania says something about th...

This Newsletter contains articles from Alaska, Amazon, Australia, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Chile, India, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, West Papua.

This Newsletter contains articles from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, East Timor, Guatemala, India, International, Nicaragua, South Africa, Venezuela, USA, West Papua, WCIP.

This Newsletter contains articles from Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, East Timor, India, International, Lebanon, Malaysia, New Caledonia, Peru, USA, West Papua.

This Newsletter contains articles from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, East Timor, Ecuador, Kenya, Guatemala, Melanesia, Mexico and Guatemala, Mexico, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Philippines, Thailand, United States, West Papua.

This Newsletter contains articles from Alaska, Australia, Bangladesh, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Chile, East Timor, Ecuador, Greenland, Kenya, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Pacific, Peru, South Africa, Thailand, United States, West Papua.

This book is a sequel to East Timor, Indonesia and the Western Democracies which was published by IWGIA in 1980 as Document No. 40. The earlier report covered the conflict from the Indonesian invasion in 1975 until the end of 1979, where­as this new report concentrates largely on developments since 1980.

The Chittagong Hill Tracts are a "tribal area" in Bangla­desh where 12 different ethnic groups live. They number about 600 000 people and make up 0.7% of the total population of Bangladesh. After independence the tribal people accounted for 98% of the district's inhabitants. Today they are out­numbered by Bengali settlers who were brought into the hills in recent years by a three-phase gov...

For thirty-three months, from March, 1973 until Novem­ber, 1975, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations administered a Freedom From Hunger Campaign Project in Lamalera, Lembata, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia. A relatively isolated village of around 1,200 persons on the south coast of the small and rugged volcanic island Lembata, Lamalera possesses a mixed economy much aff...

The purpose of this document is to provide as complete a picture as possible of the current situation of the Yagua by integrating all the sets of constraints to which they are victims. After more than three centuries, and with particular intensity in the last decades, the Yagua are suffering the consequences of the white colonisation of their territory, three centuries of dependence and oppression...

This Newsletter contains articles from Alaska, Arctic, Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, CISA, Colombia, Costa Rica, East Timor, Ethiopia, Guatemala, New Caledonia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, Nicaragua, Pacific, Palau, Peru, Tanzania, United States, Vanuatu, West Papua.

This Newsletter contains articles from Alaska, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Indian Ocean, Mexico, Pacific, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, USA, Venezuela.

Since July 1982 the situation on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast has rapidly deteriorated. What before merely seemed possible is today a certainty. Open battles have begun in the Puerto Cabezas area between the Sandinist army and armed units of several thousand men who have invaded from Honduras. Supported by the Honduran army and equipped with North Ameri­can arms, the opponents of the Sandinist R...

This Newsletter contains articles from Guatemala, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Panama, Peru, Arctic, Australia, Philippines, West Irian, East Timor, New Caledonia, Kwajalein, Canada, USA, Kalahari

When talking about the indigenous peoples of northern Arg­entina, one must use the past tense. Hunter/gatherer societies in that region have been constantly undermined since the late 19th century as indigenous resources of land and labour were pulled into the capitalist economy. Vestiges of the identities and cultures of the Matacos, Tobas, Mocovles and Vilelas (though twisted and changed as a...

This document is an edited English version of a brief written for the Supreme Court of Norway with an added general introduction to the Saami, the Alta/Kautokeino project and the context of North Norway. The proposed Alta/Kautokeino hydro scheme brings the Saami world in Norway very close indeed to its 'to be or not to be'. The likely consequences are so encompassing. They affect sendentary as wel...

The present report on Indian Areas threatened by Hydro­electric Projects in Brazil, by Paul L. Aspelin and Silvio Coelho dos Santos, is written specifically for the IWGIA DOCUMENT series. An earlier version of the document was presented by Paul L. Aspelin at the XLIII International Congress of Americanists in Vancouver, Canada, in August 1979. Silvio Coelho dos Santos also presented an earlier...

The Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT)/Summer Institute of Lin­guistics (SIL), one of the largest missionary enterprises in the world, aims to bring »the Word« to the »Bibleless tribes«. In pursuit of converts, SIL missionaries have profoundly affected indigenous societies throughout the world. SIL's method of proselytising and its relationships with host countries have provoked many questio...

The purpose of this collection of documents is to show three points: Firstly, Indonesian atrocities in East Timor; secondly, the responsibility of the Western democracies; and thirdly, the cover-up in the Western mass media. The collection opens and closes with UN testimonies by Noam Chomsky. The documents in between are arranged by origin and topic, rather than in a chronological sequence. For r...

A lot has been said about the development of the Bolivian Department of Santa Cruz; most assuredly, quite a bit has been achieved in this area. The establishment of new types of industry and the extension of existing ones have led to a demographic development which, percentwise, tops the list of Bolivian departments.