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...

The aim of this report is to call attention to a program of ethno­cide which is being applied to ethnic minorities in Mexico as a part of a policy of capitalist development being carried out by the Mexi­can government through regional development agencies. It can be shown that ethnocidal policies of these agencies have an intimate relation­ship with the broad economic and political goa...

In the last few years there have been an increasing number of major development projects which have raised issues of native rights. The list includes the Bennett Darn, the Bighorn Darn, the James Bay project, the flooding of Southern Indian Lake, explora­tion and resource development in the Arctic and the Mackenzie valley pipeline. All these projects involve isolated areas with predominantly n...

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the basic human rights described in the United Nations Charter of Human Rights are denied to the Aché (Guayaki ) Indians of Paraguay, not through indifference or neglect , but by a deliberate Government policy of genocide disguised as benevolence. I feel that only very exact and detailed information can fulfill this purpose.  

In 1971 a road linking Brasilia with Manaus was constructed so that it crossed the Xingu Park. In 1973 another road violation of the national park was on the way. The present publication illustrates Brazilian natives policy at the time of these violations and indicates the difficulty of solving the problem of the final remaining indigenous population of this country. Xingu Park was at the time of ...

The Ye'cuana or De'cuana, better known in the anthropologi­cal literature as Maquiritare1) , are approximately 1500 Carib­speaking, tropical-forest people. Their villages21 are scattered along the upper course of the Caura and Paragua Rivers, or bran­ches of the latter (Bolivar State) , and along the Ventuari, Cunucunuma, Padoma and Cuntinamo Rivers and their affluents (Territorio Fede...

This publication documents how, after four centuries of struggle against the European invasion of their territory, the Cuiva are now threatened not only with cultural extinction, but also with physical ectermination at the hands of Colombian cattle herders. Between July 1968 and July 1970 the author of this publication spent 21 month living with three distinct groups of nomadic haters and gatherer...

This publication is a bibliography of the Brazilian Amazon region covering the period from 1957-1972. The publication refers to the entire Brazilian Amazon region, however most of the publications mentioned deal with its southeastern part, the Northern Mato Grosso, Goiás and Southern Pará. This is due to the fact that at the time of writing the indigenous policy and its consequences was concentr...

This publication documents the Parú-Cacuri invasion on the basis of newspaper reports, and documents submitted to various official authorities. This is done to substantiate the Yekuana viewpoint regarding the significance of their land, and to out line their own attitude toward the development projects being elaborated for application in southern Venezuela, one of the most isolated regions of the...

This publication focus on the subject of the tribal minorities og the Peruvian tropical forest from the point of view of the political circumstances and the general administrative conditions of Perú.  

Although Bihar has one of the largest industrial complexes of India and is rich in mineral resources, one of the poorest and most backward populations of India reside there. The total population of Bihar is 46 455 600. The "Tribal Belt" of Bihar, Chotanagpur Division and Santal Parganas District, is inhabited by more than 11 million. The Tribals there number about 3 million. The most predominant t...