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	Columbus Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first recorded celebration of Columbus Day in the USA was held by the Tammany Society, also known as the Colombian Order, in New York on October 12th 1792, marking the 300th anniversary of Columbus's landing in the Bahamas.
		The day was first celebrated in Argentina in 1917, Venezuela in 1921, Chile in 1923, and Mexico in 1928.
		Columbus Day is a holiday celebrated in many countries in the Americas, commemorating the date of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Columbus_Day

	Announcing a gathering of Indigenous peoples of Northern Mexico
		CASMAC is an indigenous rights organization that was been working for 5 years to help protect the native peoples and forests of the Sierras from the encroachment of increasing narcotics trafficking and illegal logging.
		The idigenous peoples of Chihuahua's Sierra Madre will be gathering for a celebration of community and solidarity in the village of Baborigame, Chihuahua, Mexico from July 26 through July 29, 1996.
		An unholy alliance of heroin traffickers and their allies in the timber industry are systematically violating the human rights of the indigenous Tepehuans and laying ruin to their land (a world-class bio- region).
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/41/245.html

	Latin America and Caribbean - Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America: 1994-2004
		Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America: 1994-2004 considers how social conditions have evolved in the five Latin American countries with the largest indigenous populations (Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru) during the last decade, proclaimed in 1994 by the United Nations as the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
		The study found that indigenous peoples represent 10 percent of the region’s population and the largest disadvantaged group in Latin America. While the incidence of poverty in Latin America is high, it is particularly severe and deep among the indigenous population.
		Indigenous Peoples still lag behind despite increased political power, says new World Bank study
	web.worldbank.org /WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/LACEXT/0,,contentMDK:20505834~pagePK:146736~piPK:146830~theSitePK:258554,00.html (796 words)

	Native Americans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the American Southwest, especially New Mexico, a syncretism between the Catholicism brought by Spanish missionaries and the native religion is common; the religious drums, chants, and dances of the Pueblo people are regularly part of Masses at Santa Fe's Saint Francis Cathedral.
		The counter-argument notes that claims of indigenous or Native American identity are primarily intended to affirm rights to maintain and exercise their own cultural identity, observances and associations with traditional lands and to be free of discrimination on that basis- in accordance with universal human rights intended to apply to all.
		Native Americans were stunned to learn that when the British made peace with the Americans in the Treaty of Paris (1783), the British had ceded a vast amount of American Indian territory to the United States without even informing their Indian allies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Native_American (796 words)

	Native Americans
		In Northern Mexico indigenous people are a small minority: they are practically absent from the northeast but, in the northwest and central borderlands, include the Tarahumara of Chihuahua and the Yaquis and Seri of Sonora.
		"Amerindian" relates to a mega-group of people spanning the Americas that are related in culture and genetics, and are quite distinct from the later arriving Eskimos (Inuit, Yupik, and Aleut peoples native to Alaska and arctic Canada).
		In the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca and in the interior of the Yucatán peninsula the majority of the population is indigenous.
	www.crystalinks.com /nativeamericans.html (3903 words)

	Indigenous Peoples of North & Central America Videotapes in the Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley
		In this second segment the North American anthropologists doing field work in Yucatan, Mexico, consider the family members individually and as a unit in the village as they seek to understand the Mayan view of the world and examine how this view has shaped their society.
		American Indians who are using his photographs for cultural preservation respond to the pictures, tell stories about the people in the photographs and discuss the meaning of the images.
		Native people speak about the devastation of their cultures resulting from the "European invasion," contemporary struggles over land and human rights and the importance of reviving spiritual traditions and the need to address the environmental crisis which threatens the survival of the planet.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/IndigenousVid.html (3903 words)

	Indigenous Peoples of North & Central America Videotapes in the Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley
		An exploration of the intertwined lives of people and corn, illustrating the traditional, spiritual, economic and political importance of corn in the lives of indigenous peoples of North America.
		Filmed against some of America's most spectacular backdrops, from Alaska to Maine and Montana to New Mexico, this award-winning film profiles Native American activists who are fighting to protect Indian lands, preserve their sovereignty and ensure the cultural survival of their peoples.
		Native people speak about the devastation of their cultures resulting from the "European invasion," contemporary struggles over land and human rights and the importance of reviving spiritual traditions and the need to address the environmental crisis which threatens the survival of the planet.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/IndigenousVid.html (16076 words)

	AllRefer Encyclopedia - South American Indigenous Peoples Encyclopedia
		• Maya, indigenous people of Mexico and Central America
		AllRefer Encyclopedia - South American Indigenous Peoples Encyclopedia
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/categories/saind.html (117 words)

	HIST104 - "Becoming Indian": Latin America's Indigenous Peoples
		Students enrolled in "Becoming Indian" will analyze monographs, testimonies, and fiction to explore the construction of indigenous identities and the history of indigenous communities in Mexico, Central America, and the Andean highlands.
		HIST104 - "Becoming Indian": Latin America's Indigenous Peoples
		The course will emphasize 19th- and 20th-century indigenista movements, social issues, and contemporary political revolutions but will also cover the colonial period.
	www.wesleyan.edu /wesmaps/course0506/hist104f.htm (145 words)

	Oaxaca, Mexico - II
		The constitutions and laws of the states will establish the characteristics of self-determination and autonomy that might best express the situations and aspiration of the indigenous peoples in each state, as well as the norms for the recognition of the indigenous communities as entities of public interest.
		The indigenous peoples and communities will have access to the natural resources of their lands and territories in accordance with article 27 of the Political Constitution of the Mexican United States and the norms in force.
		The right of indigenous peoples to self-determination will be exercised in a constitutional framework of autonomy that safeguards national unity.
	www.minority-rights.org /docs/country/mx2.htm (3689 words)

	Mexico MADRE: An International Women's Human Rights Organization
		Indigenous Peoples in Chiapas have resisted the loss of their homes and lands, the attack on their traditions and resources and the worsening poverty and insecurity generated by neo-liberal economic policies.
		The Mexican government, backed by the United States, has responded to the resistance of Indigenous Peoples in Chiapas with a campaign of violence and intimidation, including support for brutal paramilitary forces.
		Indigenous Peoples in Chiapas are denied access to health care, education and critical utilities such as electricity, sanitation, and potable water.
	www.madre.org /countries/Mexico.html (1586 words)

	FREE In-depth report - Other Indigenous Groups - Honduras
		While groups related to indigenous peoples of Mexico moved into western and southern Honduras, other peoples with languages related to those of the Chibcha of Colombia were establishing themselves in areas that became northeastern Honduras.
		Indigenous groups related to the Toltec of central Mexico migrated from the northwest into parts of what became western and southern Honduras.
		Although divided into numerous distinct and frequently hostile groups, the indigenous inhabitants of preconquest Honduras (before the early 1500s) carried on considerable trade with other parts of their immediate region as well as with areas as far away as Panama and Mexico.
	www.exploitz.com /Honduras-Other-Indigenous-Groups-cg.php (404 words)

	Country Reports - Mexico 1998 - Chapter 7
		The Mexican Constitution states in Article 4 that: "The Mexican nation is a mix of many cultures originally based on its indigenous peoples..." This recognition is expressed in various legal provisions that guarantee the acceptance of traditional indigenous institutions and their customs and practices.
		In the state of Chiapas, on the contrary, various associations(147) have reported that the legislative elections held in July 1997 and which were generally acknowledged to have been fairly conducted in most of the states of the country, were not fairly conducted in a number of districts with a heavy indigenous population.
		In the case of Chiapas, the Commission was told of the presence of Mexican Army camps in 46 municipalities in the state, (or in 41.4 per cent of the total number of municipalities in Chiapas) and the occupation of at least 111 indigenous communities.
	www.cidh.org /countryrep/Mexico98en/Chapter-7.htm (404 words)

	ANTH398 - Advanced Seminar: Critical Issues in Anthropology
		This semester we will examine the relationship between indigenous peoples, nationalism, and national conflicts in Mexico and Central America.
		We will focus on the ways in which nationalist rhetorics, practices and symbols have constructed, encompassed and marginalized those considered indigenous, and on the meanings indigenous peoples give to their own pos itions and indentities as Indians.
		Areas of inquiry will include the Miskito Indians and the nation-state in Nicaragua, the position of Guatemalan Indians in national political conflicts, and the recent Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico.
	www.wesleyan.edu /wesmaps/course9900/anth398f.htm (190 words)

	Indigenous People
		Center For World Indigenous Studies - The Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) is an independent, non-profit [U.S. 501(c)(3)] research and education organization dedicated to wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of indigenous peoples and the social, economic and political realities of indigenous nations.
		NAPE Aboriginal Links - An Indigenous Peoples Web Directory - A Canadian based Aboriginal directory consisting of links to many of the fine Native, Aboriginal and Indigenous sites found on the world wide web.
		Dictionaries and Grammars of Indigenous Languages of Mexico- Organized by language family, in alphabetical order, this list includes other related books published by the Summer Institute of Linguistics or the Instituto Lingüístico de Verano (Mexico).
	www.clickandsearch.com /links/ethnic/inp.shtml (615 words)

	Social Institutions
		The great majority of the people are of mixed Spanish and indigenous descent, but a sizable minority are of purely indigenous descent.
		Thanks to the political stability of the accelerated economic and social development that Mexico has experienced during the first half of the twentieth century, the country has gone from being at the turn of the century a principally agricultural economy to become the 13th most important economy in the world.
		The strongest parties in Mexico are the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the center-right National Action Party (PAN), the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), and the Partido del Trabajo Party (PT).
	www.scs.unr.edu /~lbeck/culture.html (615 words)

	2004 Tamejavi Festival - Fresno, California
		Central Valley Indigenous peoples from the Americas (Mexico and California) come together to announce the release of a historic book ("memoria"), titled "Symposium on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas", which describes cultural dialogues they experienced with one another.
		Indigenous peoples have endured 513 years of colonization and yet there is evidence of many thriving communities, cultures, and traditions throughout the Americas.
		The San Joaquin Valley and surrounding area is known to have several California federally recognized tribal governments, many California federally unacknowledged tribal governments/communities, members of tribes from throughout the United States and community members from various Mexican Indigenous groups, among others.
	www.tamejavi.org (3034 words)

	The contemporary political history of Native Mexico
		Mexico's indigenous people rallied to the cause of the Chiapas rebels, announcing the creation of Zapatista-style autonomous districts in five states which stretch halfway across the country.
		The event is sponsored by CASMAC (Consejo Asesor Sirra Madre, A.C., an indigenous rights organization that helps protect the native peoples and forests of the Sierras from the encroachment of increasing narcotics trafficking and illegal logging.
		Article based on a proposal written by the Independent Indian Peoples Front (FIPI) and the Committee for the Support and Defense of Indian Rights (CADDIAC).
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/41/index-cb.html (3034 words)

	Dr Polly Walker - Australian Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies at The University of Queensland
		Ph.D., Conflict Transformation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples (University of Queensland); MA, Educational Administration/Special Education, highest honors (New Mexico State University); BA, Elementary and Special Education (New Mexico State University) honors.
		Walker, P. 2001, ‘Journeys Around the Medicine Wheel: A story of Indigenous Research in a Western University', The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, Vol.
		Walker, P. 2001, ‘Editorial', The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, Vol.
	www.uq.edu.au /acpacs?page=25908&pid= (203 words)

	Amazon.ca: Endangered Peoples of Latin America: Struggles to Survive and Thrive: Books
		Endangered Peoples of Latin America: Struggles to Survive and Thrive offers rare insight into indigenous and marginalized groups in Mexico, Central America, and South America.
		This volume focuses on more than 13 endangered peoples, from the Mayans of Central Quintana Roo, in Mexico, to the Quechua of the Peruvian Andes.
		Globalization has had negative effects on local economies and environments, on health and nutrition, and on control of land and other natural resources, and students and other...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/031330856X (386 words)

	Schools for Chiapas
		The indigenous Maya communities of Chiapas invite you to live and learn in the misty highlands and steamy jungles of the Mexican southeast.
		You are invited to join the Maya peoples” efforts to build dignified schools while promoting social justice in Mexico and the world.
		Join extraordinary Mexican, international, and indigenous volunteers collectively sharing rustic living conditions and life-altering experiences inside the rural civilian cultural centers of the Zapatista movement.
	www.mexicopeace.org (195 words)

	Talk:Ancient Pueblo Peoples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Categories: WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America
		The All Indian Pueblo Council (AIPC) is a consortium of the nineteen (19) Pueblo Indian tribes of New Mexico.
		Pecos Classification is a division of all of known Ancient Pueblo Peoples culture into chronological phases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Ancient_Pueblo_Peoples (2986 words)

	Who was Zapata - Zapatista Revolution, Chiapas Mexico
		His name has been invoked by the indigenous rebel army in Chiapas, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), in their struggle against exactly the same social ills that Zapata fought against: large landlords and (often foreign-owned) big business running a corrupt and repressive régime that leaves the peasants, particularly indigenous peoples, landless and exploited.
		In 1968 a major student uprising was crushed and the PRI party became more indifferent towards the oppressed masses On 1 January 1994 the EZLN, an unheard-of revolutionary organisation, seized power in parts of Chiapas, southern Mexico, calling for the reforms Zapata had fought and died for.
		In 1857 Benito Juarez issued a new constitution in an effort to abolish the remnants of colonialism.
	www.zapatistarevolution.com /who.html (945 words)

	Unasylva - No. 179 - Forestry in countries with economies in transition - The uprising in Chiapas, Mexico: The impact of structural adjustment and forestry reform
		The Emiliano Zapata National Association of Peasant and Indigenous Peoples (ANCIEZ) gained popularity and formed the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN).
		The uprising involved the poor and indigenous peasant population in a farming and forest area running from the highlands of Chiapas to the Lacandona Rain Forest.
		The uprising in Chiapas, Mexico: The impact of structural adjustment and forestry reform
	www.fao.org /docrep/t4620E/t4620e0b.htm (2516 words)

	Zapatista Army of National Liberation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In preparation for this alternative campaign, the Zapatistas invited to their territory over 600 national leftist organizations, indigenous groups and non-governmental organizations in order to listen to their claims for human rights in a series of biweekly meetings that culminated in a plenary meeting in September 16, the day Mexico celebrates its independence from Spain.
		The EZLN has been mainly fighting for autonomy of the indigenous population as a solution to poverty ; they promote a kind of state within a state where peoples can retain their ways of government and communal way of life yet receive outside support in needed areas.
		The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) is an armed revolutionary group based in Chiapas, one of the poorest states of Mexico.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zapatista_uprising_in_Chiapas,_Mexico (3058 words)

	Zapatista!: Reinventing Revolution in Mexico
		The book presents the Zapatistas in the context they have attempted to portray themselves: a movement for human dignity and for the upliftment of all peoples, not merely a movement for the rights of indigenous peoples, as the Zapatistas have been portrayed repeatedly by mainstream commentators and press.
		Zapatista!: Reinventing Revolution in Mexico Review: This book provides a good introduction to the politics and organization of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico.
		This book does a good job of presenting the incisive social critique of the Zapatistas, dispels some of the myths of the organization of the uprising (like that Marcos is the "leader" of the Zapatistas), and shows some of the more interesting salient features of the Zapatista communities.
	www.textkit.com /0_0745311776.html (410 words)

	Green Party National Committee
		She said the Mexican Green Party was asking for an end to violence, that the earlier agreement between the Mexican government and the Zapatistas be observed by the government and that the government respect the customs of the indigenous peoples of Chiapas.
		She said that the President of the Mexican Greens made frequent visits to Chiapas to check on the situation and that the Greens were supporting the indigenous woman who was on the peace commission.
		The Green Party of New York State had applied for membership later and had also been admitted provisionally on December 15 by a CC vote of 23-0-1 with delegates from 17 of 21 state parties casting votes.
	www.gp.org /fec/santafe.html (14248 words)

	AllRefer.com - Natives, Middle American (Mesoamerican Indigenous Peoples) - Encyclopedia
		Although most of Mexico is geographically considered part of North America and although there have been cultural contacts between Mexican groups and the Pueblo of the SW United States, the cultural development of most of Mexico belongs, in fact, to that of Middle America.
		Today the descendants of the above-mentioned Native American groups, as well as such peoples as the Huastec, the Tarascan, the Yaqui, and the Tarahumara, constitute a powerful cultural and economic element of Mexican life.
		It was not until after the revolution of 1910 and the indianismo movement of Emiliano Zapata that efforts were made, notably by the Mexican president LAzaro CArdenas, with regard to the economic and social development of the Native American.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/NatvsMA.html (557 words)

	16 de Septiembre
		As you know, indigenous peoples were the first to inhabit what is now known as Mexico.
		Spaniards born in Spain, occupied the higher echelons, followed by Criollos, those born in Mexico from Spanish parents; Mestizos, the mix- blood offspring of Spaniards and Natives; Indios, Native Indians; Negros, African slaves.
		During September, Mes de la Patria, the month of our nation as it is called in Mexico, restaurants serve traditional Mexican dishes, such as Mole Poblano, Chiles en Nogada, Guacamole and chips.
	www.inside-mexico.com /featureindep.htm (1129 words)

	Articles - Indigenous peoples of the Americas
		The term indigenous peoples of the Americas encompasses the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European explorers in the 15th century, as well as many present-day ethnic groups who identify themselves with those historical peoples.
		While many of these indigenous peoples retained the nomadic or semi-nomadic lifestyle of their Siberian ancestors until modern times, in some regions they created large sedentary chiefdom polities, and even advanced state level societies with monumental architecture and large-scale, organized cities.
		In Northern Mexico indigenous people are a small minority: they are practically absent from the northeast but, in the northwest and central borderlands, include the Tarahumara of Chihuahua and the Yaquis and Seri of Sonora.
	www.sewing-center.com /articles/Native_American_(Americas) (2273 words)

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