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Fourth-world colonialism, by which I mean the colonization or exploitation of indigenous minorities whithin thirdworld or "developing" nations, is as pernicious - as damaging to the colonized - as any other kind of colonialism, the more so that it often goes unrecognized. Ethnocentrism can be as narrow-minded and relationships as exploitative when India or China, for example, deal with H...
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 1979
Release Month | Day: apr-79
In 1974 I published an article in the IWGIA Document series (Smith, 1974) in which I told of the struggle of one Amuesha community with a catholic Franciscan mission to retain control over a small area to which these Arnuesha had retreated. In 1976, the Peruvian government awarded this community, now called Tsachopen, title to an area of slightly over 760 hectares; these were precisely the lands w...
Publisher: Anthropology Resource Center, Survival International & IWGIA
Author: Alcida R. Ramos & Kenneth I. Taylor
Number of pages: 170
ISSN number: 0105-4504
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Brazil, Brasil
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 1979
Release Month | Day: apr-79
This paper is intended to first, report on the very critical situation of the Yanoama Indians in north Brazil who have been affected by the construction of the Perimetral Norte highway; second, to make public the events that led to the abrupt end of the "Yanoama Project", a plan designed by an anthropologist to assist the Yanoama Indians in Brazil, as well as describe the activities of the Project...
Region publication is about: Oceania, Pacific, Pacífico
Release year: 1979
Release Month | Day: jan-79
Despite so much that is common to the cultural heritage and colonial experience of the Australian Aborigines and American Indians, the present legal and socio-political position of the Aboriginal people in Australian society remains even worse than that of the Indians in the United States. The rights of the Indian peoples to land, minerals, water, and a degree of self-determination and cultural di...
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 1979
Release Month | Day: jan-79
This short account of my people, the Mapuche, is written in the midst of a difficult period for the Chilean people, and I myself am a long way from the Araucanian territory. Life in exile leaves time for writing, reading, listening, and thinking, as well as drawing some conclusions concerning the Indian issue from a global point of view, i.e. in respect of all our Indian brother peoples on the Ame...
Country publication is about: Norway, South America, North America, Australia, India, Bangladesh, Greenland, Canada, U.S.A., Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
Region publication is about: International; internacional
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 1978
Release Month | Day: apr-78
The Indians of Bolivia, already exploited by a military dictatorship, will have to take up more of the white man's burden if South Africans and Rhodesians accept an invitation to colonise the country. White South Africans, accustomed to the excesses of their own police, will find much that is familiar in Bolivia. Police used violence against a mass hunger strike in La Paz recently and br...
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 1978
Release Month | Day: apr-78
The intention of this document is to give a general outline to be considered by the "First Meeting of Anthropologists in the Countries of the Andean Region", of the most important aspects of the INDIAN LIBERATION AND SOCIAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT in Bolivia and its implications for the continent called America.
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 1978
Release Month | Day: apr-78
In this report we attempt to:
present a profile of the indigenous population of the Territory of Roraima (Brazil), and
delineate the most common processes of integration involving the indigenous peoples and their land.
The results of integration to date have been very unfortunate for the indigenous peoples of Roraima. It is not easy to find a positive solution. We feel that, given...
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 1978
Release Month | Day: apr-78
News of the massacre at Panzós reached IWGIA in the beginning of June. We were about to issue our IWGIA NEWSLETTER No. 19 and therefore barely managed to include a short report on the matter by Jens Lohmann. However, we felt that the importance of the May 29th events, in all their horror and bestiality, was such that any information about what had happened, why and how it happened, should be...
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 1978
Release Month | Day: jan-78
i el Ecuador ha sido, es, y será, el país amazónico! "Ecuador has been, is, and will be, the Amazonian country!" reads the national rallying cry frequently emblazoned on official stationary within the Republic of Ecuador. Ostensibly, the slogan is a political one which no party would dare to ignore, let alone negate; it protests - and justifiably so - the loss of half of its Amazonian territory...
Country publication is about: Solomon Islands, Las islas Solomón
Region publication is about: Oceania
Release year: 1976
Release Month | Day: jan-76
The present paper is concerned with the reactions of the people of Bellona Island, a small Polynesian outlier island in the Solomon Islands, when confronted with a recent plan of having the fairly large deposits of phosphate on their island mined by a foreign company.
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 1976
Release Month | Day: jan-76
In the moist tropics of South America, Native Americans -who are all too frequently referred to by Christopher Columbus' term "Indians" - are rapidly disappearing. Current literature documenting the rationality of the native peoples, together with detailed analysis of the processes of modernization and rapid change leading to their physical and cultural destruction, is reminiscent of the work of F...
Country publication is about: Philippines, Filipinas
Region publication is about: Asia
Release year: 1976
Release Month | Day: jan-76
This IWGIA Document contains three papers on the oppression of the native peoples of the Philippines.
The Philippines: A Background Survey
Native Peoples Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines
The Filipino Muslims and their Struggle for Self-Determination
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 1976
Release Month | Day: jan-76
In Latin America - in Venezuela - of all the words bandied about, there is no more hollow and misused term than "integration", but there is none which is greeted with such a large consensus. Everyone agrees, it is necessary to integrate the ethnic minorities into national life, it is an absolute necessity, an ineluctable process, etc. However, if anyone dare ask what everyone understands by "...
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 1975
Release Month | Day: jan-75
The objective of this work is to report the experiences I had in Brazil during the five months of my stay with the Indians of the Aripuanã Indigenous Park, from July to December, 1972, I went there as a physician and ethnologist, having previously spent some time in the Peruvian forest in 1970, and in the Brazilian forest in 1971.
IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs - is a global human rights organisation dedicated to promoting and defending Indigenous Peoples’ rights. Read more.