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...

IWGIA Document 33

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...

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.

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...

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  

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 "...

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.

This article is an attempt to describe the present situation of Indians of Eastern Bolivia. Historical events will be referred to only when they are relevant to an understanding of the Indian cultures. Before proceeding with a systematic description, certain facts which are of general importance for the entire geographical area should be noted.

The present report has a very clear purpose: to make known the situation in which an ethnic minority survives in the Ar­gentine part of the Great Chaco. Having chosen here the Mataco does not imply that this group lives under particular conditions, different from those of the Toba, M'bya, Mapuche, Chorote, Chang, Chulupí, Chiriguanc, Mocoví, etc. This group is, as far as its living condition...

The ARAUCANIANS are one of the larger of the native peoples of South America, and they include different ethnic sub-groups, some of which are now extinct. A relatively large population, once geographically spread extensively over the southern cone of South America, at present they are reduced to only two close­ly related ethnic groups: 1) the Mapuche of southern Chile (the largest one), and 2)...

“The Aché Indians: Genocide in Paraguay” (IWGIA Document 11) documented the extermination of the Aché in Paraguay up to September 1972. At that time, a public scandal broke out in Paraguay over the Indian situation. The authorities promised an inquiry, one man was arrested, and there was hope of a change. But today this genocide is still going on. The promised inquiry has never been realized...

In the year 1742, the national liberation movement lead by Juan Santos Atahualpa forced the missionaries of the Franciscan Order, their military back-up, and the Spanish colonists they brought, to leave the central montaña of Peru and allowed the Amueeha and Campa peoples of the area to continue determining their own destinies independent of the Spanish and later Peruvian occupational forces. In ...

This report is a reprint from volume 2, in Frank Stevens (ed.): RACISM: THE AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE. A Study of Race Prejudice in Australia. 1-3. 1971-72. Published by Australia & New Zealand Book Co, Fty. Ltd.,85 Whiting Street, Artarmon, N.S.W. 2064 Australia. We express our gratitude to the publishers for the generous permission to reprint A. Barrie Pittock's study as an IWGIA DOCUMENT. The f...