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	Researching Indigenous Peoples Rights Under International Law
		With indigenous peoples being the poorest and most marginalized in many countries, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette today said the failure of Member States to negotiate an acceptable declaration on their rights is one of the major challenges facing the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
		The displacement of indigenous peoples is usually the result of an invasion of their territory by an ethnically and culturally different group which then attempts to convert the native population to the conquerors' cultural norms and suppresses the indigenous peoples culture and history.
		The oppression of the indigenous peoples of the Philippines.
	intelligent-internet.info /law/ipr2.html (11996 words)

	Culture
		North American Indigenous Peoples were transported as slaves from Martinique and Barbados to Saint Lucia, by the French and British.
		In 1668, at least one Indigenous Person slave was sent from Boston to the island while in 1700, a "big sale" of North America Indigenous Peoples to the West Indies occurred.
		THE ALDET CENTRE-SAINT LUCIA proposes that since "education and inter-culturality are the affirmation of identity", mechanisms for assisting in the pursuit of "the visibility of the culture of the Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean Antilles" be established for the promotion of the same.
	www.uctp.org /LostPeoples.html (1413 words)

	Mythology's Mything Links: Indigenous Peoples -- North America Portal Page
		This link more properly belongs on my "The Americas" page, but since that page isn't up yet (and probably won't be for many months), and since this material so effectively debunks many white misconceptions, I feel it's important to give it a temporary home on this "North America" page.
		Although the context is American, the underlying problems faced by indigenous peoples in white North American society are the same.
		This is Paula Geise's page on the art of First Peoples and Native Americans -- she begins with her justified outrage over native art stolen from Vancouver, and then moves on to annotated links covering a wide range of indigenous artists (with great photos of the art).
	www.mythinglinks.org /ip~northamerica.html (706 words)

	Indigenous Peoples of North & Central America Videotapes in the Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley
		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.
		Move North along the eastern seaboard of North America to examine the harsh, rocky land around Hudson Bay and trace the history of French and British entrepreneurs who ventured there to hunt and trap.
		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.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/IndigenousVid.html (14960 words)

	Cultural Survival
		Guatemala’s indigenous peoples are at risk of being denied their right to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through the media.
		A quarterly magazine for policy makers and others interested in indigenous peoples and their rights, cultures, and concerns.
		A semi-annual newspaper featuring indigenous news and viewpoints, designed for indigenous communities and for the classroom.
	www.cs.org (122 words)

	Native Americans of North America - An Encyclopedia Article\| NRCS
		Most scientists agree that the human history of North America began when the ancient ancestors of modern Native Americans made their way across a land bridge that once spanned the Bering Sea and connected northeastern Asia to North America.
		Nevertheless, Native American cultures share certain traits that are common to many indigenous peoples around the world, including strong ties to the land on which they live.
		The indigenous peoples of North America are known by many terms.
	www.nrcs.usda.gov /about/civilrights/Native_Americans.html (728 words)

	SFU Library - History of Indigenous Peoples of North America to 1850
		The land, the plants, the animals and the people all have spirit-they all must be shown respect.
		We also discuss the meanings of “indigenous history” and the myth of Columbus’s “discovery.” The second part explores the sovereignty question in history and the interactions between Native peoples and newcomers in the fur trade.
		September 17th, 1987, America celebrated the 200th birthday of the United States Constitution, a brilliant jewel of human liberty and reason, fashioned by the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution to prescribe the structure of their new American government.
	www.lib.sfu.ca /researchhelp/subjectguides/hist/classes/hist043325.htm (5305 words)

	Indigenous Peoples Of North America: The Inuit By Sharp Sharp Anne Wallace- Textbook - Bookbyte.com
		Indigenous Peoples Of North America: The Inuit By Sharp Sharp Anne Wallace- Textbook - Bookbyte.com
		Indigenous Peoples of North America: The Inuit, by Sharp
		Presents a history of native American people of the Arctic, describes their adaptation to a severe environment, and explores their way of life before and after the arrival of the white man.
	www.bookbyte.com /product.aspx?isbn=1590180062 (137 words)

	AllRefer.com - Kootenai, indigenous group of North America (North American Indigenous Peoples) - Encyclopedia
		Kootenai, indigenous group of North America, North American Indigenous Peoples
		Kootenai culture was essentially that of the Plateau area, but after the advent of the horse the Kootenai adopted many Plains area traits including a seasonal buffalo hunt.
		In 1990 there were 750 Kootenai and about 2,300 people of mixed Salish and Kootenai descent in the United States, as well as some 500 Kootenai in Canada.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Kootenai.html (387 words)

	thelastdayprophet NORTH AMERICAN NATIVES ?
		For many native peoples, especially those who lived in areas with sparse resources, the family was the largest unit, while others were organized into bands.
		Although the introduction of new diseases was the main cause of the rapid decline of indigenous populations, other reasons were genocidal warfare, massive relocations and removals of Native Americans from their homelands, and the destruction of traditional ways of life.
		Relocation to new areas, often among hostile Indian tribes that were already living there, meant that people demoralized by their circumstances had to establish new subsistence patterns as well as come to terms with their forced dependency.
	www.geocities.com /thelastdayprophet/NorthAmericaNatives.html (1694 words)

	History 170 - Indigenous Peoples of North America - Prof. Alice Nash - Umass Amherst
		This course is an introduction to the history of indigenous peoples within the present-day borders of the U.S.A. and Canada.
		While we will only be able to cover a few culture groups in any depth, the major themes of the course relate to all groups, including colonization, trade, land loss, sovereignty, religion and missionaries, treaties, war and peace, and identity.
		Another theme that runs throughout the course is the tension between history as understood and experienced by indigenous peoples and history as recorded and written by Euroamericans.
	people.umass.edu /hist170 (286 words)

	Academic Calendar: SOSA 3185 Issues in the Study of Indigenous Peoples of North America. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Academic Calendar: SOSA 3185 Issues in the Study of Indigenous Peoples of North America.
		SOSA 3185.03: Issues in the Study of Indigenous Peoples of North America.
		This seminar is concerned with the historical background of the Native-European situation in North America and with issues arising from this background.
	www.registrar.dal.ca /calendar/class.php?subj=SOSA&num=3185 (116 words)

	Project Canterbury: Indigenous Peoples
		Anglican missions to bring the Gospel to the indigenous peoples of North America began soon after the first English-speaking people arrived on the continent.
		Among their first activities was always an effort to learn the language of the people to whom they were sent, to the end of translating the Bible and the Prayer Book for their use.
		The Anglican Church in the North West: An Historical Bibliography, compiled by Mr.
	anglicanhistory.org /indigenous (549 words)

	American Indian columnist says return to traditional foods is answer to some diseases
		This disease is epidemic among all indigenous peoples in North America (and many other parts of the world) and seems especially destructive among desert populations.
		People who include such high-fiber beans have been known to reverse their symptoms, but knowing what to do isn't the same as being able to do it.
		For people who are in a hurry this seems to be a good thing, but for people who are sensitive to rapidly absorbed carbohydrates, they produce a higher level of blood sugar than did the wild foods.
	www.newstarget.com /007561.html (1160 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ottawa, indigenous people of North America (North American Indigenous Peoples) - Encyclopedia
		Ottawa, indigenous people of North America, North American Indigenous Peoples
		Traditionally of the Eastern Woodlands cultural area (see under Natives, North American), the Ottawa have a well-developed creation myth that states that they were descended from three families: the Michabou, or Great Hare, the Namepich, or Carp, and the Bear's Paw.
		According to tradition the Ottawa, the Ojibwa, and the Potawatami were originally one family, dwelling N of the Great Lakes; after the separation, some of the Ottawa settled on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron and along the shores of Georgian Bay.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/OttawInd.html (470 words)

	Education World® - *Social Sciences : Cultural Studies : Indigenous Peoples : North America : USA : Tribes / ...
		Howe, William - MSN Encarta British commander in chief in North America from 1775 to 1778 during the American Revolution was disgraced by his inactivity at Valley Forge.
		North Georgia's Cherokee Indians History of the Cherokee.
		Official Cherokee Nation the federally recognized government of the Cherokee people, the second largest Indian tribe in the United States.
	db.education-world.com /perl/browse?cat_id=4031 (394 words)

	Mythology's Mythinglinks: Indigenous Peoples of North America -- Pueblo & Athabaskan Peoples of the American ...
		But their indigenous styles of music and dance appear very different from the aboriginal and contemporary styles of Latin America, even from those of the adjacent tribes of northern Mexico....
		They see their people becoming "hooked" on public utility power, only to be compromised when the people are unable to afford the ever-increasing monthly payments.
		A sedentary farming people, the Hopi have an elaborate and all-pervasive religious system which has been their answer to insecurity in a difficult environment, and throughout the year one ceremonial follows another in rapid succession....
	www.mythinglinks.org /ip~northamerica~SW.html (4335 words)

	ZNet \|Central America & Caribbean \| CAFTA
		It is an interesting question when people in the US will wake up to their missing manufacturing industry which has been going AWOL since even before the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico in the 1990s.
		That is why they are so ready to massacre people as they and their predecessora have done historically and continue to do right now in Afghanistan and Iraq.
		The agreement is the logical culmination of 20 years of democratic and social progress in Central America, encouraged by the United States." Odd then that the United States was convicted in 1986 of unlawful aggression against Nicaragua by the International Court of Justice.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=54&ItemID=8003 (1900 words)

	Nastao Nation, Santa Cruz, main page
		Our efforts are directed primarily to causes that promote the well-being and culture of indigenous peoples in our local region, regardless of tribe.
		Descendants of the indigenous peoples of North America who share these values, regardless of blood quantum or tribe, are gladly invited to join us.
		Although originally designed for Native People, we are glad to share this way with all our relations.
	www.angelfire.com /ca6/nastaonation/main.htm (260 words)

	Films & Video Recordings on INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF NORTH AMERICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		As a defender of his people's culture, he was known as "Spudwrench" during the 1990 Oka crisis.
		1985 VC #1414 German geographer Franz Boas (1858-1942) mapped the coastline of Baffin Island in the 1880's and documented the cultures of the Inuit and North West Coast Indians.
		Suggests treatment programs that take into account the different cultural perceptions native people have of the relations between the body and nature, and of their negative view of "non-native" health practitioners.
	info.library.yorku.ca /depts/smil/filmographies/indigenous.htm (6094 words)

	SFU Library - The History of Indigenous Peoples of North America since 1850
		An examination of selected themes in the history of Aboriginal peoples of North America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
		This course examines selected topics in the history of Aboriginal people of North America from the early nineteenth century until the present.
		Whenever possible the course will include art, literature and music popular among, or produced by, the particular people we are discussing - students will be asked to help track down this material as part of their class presentations in order to texture our learning about this history.
	www.lib.sfu.ca /researchhelp/subjectguides/hist/classes/hist051326.htm (5301 words)

	Frieze Designs in Indigenous Art
		Frieze patterns or border patterns are commonly found in wallpaper borders, designs on pottery, decorative designs on buildings, needlepoint stitches, ironwork railings and in many other places.
		We also include examples of each of the seven symmetry classes from art and crafts of the indigenous peoples of North America.
		Below is a gallery of frieze designs we found in the art and crafts of the indigenous peoples of North America.
	polya.math.uregina.ca /RR/database/RR.09.01/mcdonald1 (1052 words)

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		The potential long-range health and environmental hazards of uranium mining and milling, especially for communities still dependent for a major part of their subsistence on hunting or fishing, need to be fully and publicly assessed before a project proceeds.
		Nowhere is there a stronger case for participation by indigenous peoples in the planning and supervision of development activities, or for their right to determine whether such activities will be permitted in their vicinity at all.
		It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that much of the human cost of North American uranium production has been borne, unwittingly and mostly unwillingly, by indigenous peoples.
	www.halcyon.com /pub/FWDP/Americas/four_dir.txt (1552 words)

	As the onset of colonization occurred in North America, the incoming Europeans found themselves facing a land that was ...
		As the onset of colonization occurred in North America, the incoming Europeans found themselves facing a land that was already inhabited by many native peoples.
		Since the Native American people lived by the guidelines of their religion, at the center of with was “mother”, it is not surprising that female clan members had much influence in the spiritual aspect of the communities.
		This is one of the reasons for the major attempt to convert the indigenous peoples to Christianity.
	web.pdx.edu /~deannak/TERM.htm (2184 words)

	anth239 Indigenous Peoples of North America (Department of Anthropology, Bowdoin)
		anth239 Indigenous Peoples of North America (Department of Anthropology, Bowdoin)
		An overview and analysis of native North American societies from pre-Columbian times to the present.
		Topics include the political, economic, family, and religious organization of Native American societies; the impact of European expansion; and the current situation-both on and off reservation-of Native Americans.
	academic.bowdoin.edu /courses/f03/anth239 (111 words)

	As the onset of colonization occurred in North America, the incoming Europeans found themselves facing a land that was ...
		The indigenous peoples of North America lived in all areas of the land and the Europeans “di
		Since the Native American people live by the guidelines of their religion, at the center of which is “mother”, it is not surprising that female clan members have much influence in the spiritual aspect of the communities.
		As Europeans scattered through the land, and with them Christian beliefs, they were challenged by the acceptance of homosexuality within the Native American societies.
	web.pdx.edu /~deannak/TERM2.htm (3260 words)

	Mythology's Mythinglinks: Indigenous Peoples of North America -- Canada's First Nations People
		Click on this and on the left you'll get 4 sub-divisions, the best of which is the Curing section (because it goes into fascinating detail -- with great photos -- on shamanic tools); the others tend to be too brief, but they're still of interest.
		It explains how humans adapted to the land, and gives insight into the need for self-adornment and how personal and group identities can be revealed through dress....
		The fourth section is First Peoples Hall, a place for various long-running exhibits about non-Pacific Coastal peoples.
	www.mythinglinks.org /ip~northamerica~canada.html (939 words)

	WORLD FOOD HABITS BIBLIOGRAPHY
		Codere H. Fighting with Property: A Study of Kwakiutl Potlatching and Warfare.
		Comer J. North America from 1492 to the Present.
		Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples: Nutrition, Botany and Use.Food and Nutrition in History and Anthropology, No. 8 Gordon and Breach.
	lilt.ilstu.edu /rtdirks/NOAMERIND.html (1303 words)

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