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In the News (Tue 22 Dec 09)

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	NATIVE_NEWS: WORKING GROUP ON INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS
		Over the years, the Working Group has been responsible for launching most of the UN's policy initiatives on indigenous issues, including studies on treaties, land and intellectual property rights, the draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples now being reviewed by Governments, and the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People currently under way.
		In addition to cultural presentations by indigenous groups from Latin America, North America, Africa, the Arctic, Russia, Oceania, and Asia, there will be statements by Vladimir Petrovsky, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva; Erica-Irene A. Daes, Chairperson/Rapporteur of the Working Group; and by a representative of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
		In addressing the topic of indigenous peoples and their relationship to land, it is certain that indigenous delegates will stress their strong attachment to mother earth, the continuing story of dispossession and despoliation of their traditional territories, and their demand for legal recognition of their collective ownership over their homelands.
	www.mail-archive.com /nativenews@mlists.net/msg03566.html

	Science -- Gibbons 291 (5509): 1735
		What is open to debate is precisely where the Lapita peoples came from and how much they intermingled along the way with the indigenous people whose ancestors had been living in Near Oceania for at least 33,000 years.
		The oldest Lapita sites, after all, are in the Bismarcks in Near Oceania, where the culture appears to emerge as a fusion between the incoming seafarers and the indigenous Melanesians.
		The archaeological evidence was a trail of distinctive pottery, obsidian, and shell ornaments known as the Lapita culture, which first appeared 3500 to 3200 years ago in the Bismarck Archipelago in Near Oceania and spread in rapid succession to the islands of Vanuatu and New Caledonia.
	www.zoology.ubc.ca /~etaylor/413www/gibbons.htm (2621 words)

	Australia and the Pacific Islands
		In Part 3 the authors discuss primarily the indigenous musics of each geographic region and, in fact, the flyer for the encyclopedia states that the volume describes the musics of the indigenous peoples of Oceania.
		Part 2 is titled "Concepts in Oceanic Music" and tackles thirteen themes that are critical to understanding the musics of Oceania.
		Australia and the Pacific Islands is the third (although it is titled Volume 9) published in the series The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music.
	www.research.umbc.edu /efhm/4/kennedy (2621 words)

	Border-Crossing Sessions
		The absence of the stilt house among many aboriginal peoples in Southeast Asia and Oceania supports my contention that the stilt house is not indigenous to the region but migrated there as part of the Austric cultural heritage.
		Parker James’ paper "Language, Migration, and House Type in Southeast Asia and Beyond" argues that the stilt house, a typical architectural style of Southeast Asian peoples, originated from Yunnan and spread to modern Southeast Asia as a result of migration in prehistoric times.
		It presents the land-based stilt house as a manifestation of "Austric" culture.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/2003abst/Border/sessions.htm (11368 words)

	PHILTAR - Religions of Oceania
		The fourth of these sections has a link to a discussion of what should be the correct terminology to describe the indigenous peoples of Australia.
		A survey of the Aboriginal peoples (the "Eora") in the Sidney area of eastern Australia, including extensive lists of clans & their locations.
		This page is divided into six short sections: (i) 'Art, Land, and the Dreaming', (ii) 'Traditional Symbols', (iii) 'Contemporary Aboriginal Culture and Society', (iv) 'Aboriginal Languages', (v) 'Aboriginal Music', and (vi) the 'Prehistory of Australia'.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /regional/oceania (724 words)

	Encyclopedia: Indigenous people
		Komi peoples (two of the Northern Indigenous Peoples of Siberian Russia is a federation which consists of 89 subjects (Russian: субъект(ы); English transliteration: subyekty, sing.
		Papuans: at least 250 distinct tribes, each with their own language and culture in Papua New Guinea is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea (the other half is the Papua province of Indonesia).
		The Berbers (also called Imazighen, free men, singular Amazigh) are a predominantly Muslim ethnic group indigenous to the Maghreb, speaking the Berber languages of the Afroasiatic family.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Indigenous-people (9510 words)

	Native American [Definition]
		These hypothetical American AboriginesThe American Aborigines are a hypothetical group of people, originally from Oceania, who crossed the Pacific Ocean and arrived in South America long before the ancestors of today's American Indian peoples came there.
		For more information, see population history of American indigenous peoplesThere were millions of people living in the Americas when Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492.
		See also: Archeology of the AmericasThe Archeology of the Americas is the study of the archeology of North America, Central America (or Mesoamerica), South America and the Caribbean, which is to say, the pre-history and Pre-Columbian history of Native American peoples.
	www.wikimirror.com /Native_American (9510 words)

	Sweden
		Each director will be joined with a companion, a leader of indigenous peoples from one of each of the five other continents (Africa, Asia, South America, North America, Oceania/ Australia), all of whom will address the assembled celebrants concerning their non-European views of Sweden, Europe, and the future of humankind.
		Millennium Sweden, a private project of the Vision and Reality communications firm in Sweden, prepared an Experience 1000, an Ark of Time, a Moment of Life, and Worlds of Wisdom, all four programs converging on New Year's Eve 2000, with follow-up on New Year's Eve 2001.
		The main task of the Millennium Committee is to initiate and stimulate an open discussion of the future, with the focus on issues such as democracy, the equal worth of all human beings, the distribution of wealth and the environment in the society in the future.
	www.millenniumworld.org /Europe/sweden.html (9510 words)

	Maohi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Polynesian mythology, the Maohi are the ancestors of the Polynesian peoples.
		"Maohi" can also refer to the indigenous people of French Polynesia.
		This article relating to a myth or legend from Oceania is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maohi (62 words)

	gloss.html#cargocult
		Cargo cults are usually revivalist, and in some cases messianic and millenarian, movements found among certain peoples indigenous to Oceania.
		Indeed, the name given by the ni-Vanuata for trepang is, bislama.
		It is thought that the name for the local Pidgin came from this reference.
	enzo.gen.nz /jonfrum/gloss.html#cargocult (1955 words)

	Native American Indian Resources
		Includes the following full-text sections: The Americas, Artists, Columbus-1492, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania, Famous Documents, Famous Quotes, Great Chiefs and Leaders, Indigenous Nations of North America, Mother Earth Prayers, Music, Poetry, Stories, Writers/Speakers, Writings of Native Youth.
		Established by an Act of Congress in 1989, the museum works in collaboration with the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere to protect and foster their cultures by reaffirming traditions and beliefs, encouraging contemporary artistic expression, and empowering the Indian voice.
		The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian is dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans.
	dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us /amind.html (1955 words)

	World Rainforest Information Portal - Amazon, South America, Asia, Africa - Rain forest web.org
		Rainforest Information: Indigenous Peoples, Animals, Plants, Kids, Biodiversity, Maps...
		Rainforest Regions: South America, Africa, Asia, North and Central America, Oceania, Indonesia, Brazil, Canada...
		Rainforest Destruction: Wood and Paper, Oil and Gas, Consumption, Finance...
	www.rainforestweb.org (1955 words)

	Goldstein Lab
		A predominantly indigenous paternal heritage for the Austronesian speaking peoples of insular South East Asia and Oceania.
		Strangers in Strange Lands: A Genetic History of the Jewish People.
		Estimating the age of mutations using the variation at linked markers, in Microsatellites: Evolution and Applications, Edited by D.B. Goldstein and C. Schlötterer, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
	popgen.biol.ucl.ac.uk /people/dbg/david_home.html (1955 words)

	PASTORAL ATTENTION TO TRADITIONAL RELIGIONS
		The Church respects the religions and cultures of peoples, and, in its encounter with them, wishes to preserve everything that is noble, true and good in their religions and cultures.
		Whereas in Africa these religions are ordinarily referred to as "African Traditional Religions"; in Asia they are called 'Tribal Religions and Folk Religions', in America 'Native Religions and Afro-American Religions', and in Oceania 'Indigenous Religions'.
		Religion permeates life to such an extent that it is often difficult to distinguish between strictly religious elements and local custom.
	www.vatican.va /roman_curia/pontifical_councils/interelg/documents/rc_pc_interelg_doc_21111993_trad-relig_en.html (1777 words)

	Major New Work On The Pacific Islands By UC Berkeley Archaeologist Buries The Enduring Myth Of Humans In Paradise
		Berkeley -- A new history of the Pacific islands before their discovery by European voyagers buries forever the myth that Tahitians and other peoples of Oceania were children of nature living in the Garden of Eden.
		"Most islands of the Pacific were densely populated by the time of European contact, and the human impact on the natural ecosystem was often disastrous - with wholesale decimation of species and loss of vast tracts of indigenous forest."
		In the first major synthesis of Pacific prehistory in 20 years, an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, shows that, before Magellan ever set sail in the Pacific, human settlement and, in some cases, overpopulation on many Pacific islands disrupted the ecological chain, sending some island societies into collapse.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2000/05/000512082330.htm (1777 words)

	World Rainforest Information Portal - Amazon, South America, Asia, Africa - Rain forest web.org
		Rainforest Information: Indigenous Peoples, Animals, Plants, Kids, Biodiversity, Maps...
		Rainforest Regions: South America, Africa, Asia, North and Central America, Oceania, Indonesia, Brazil, Canada...
		Rainforest Destruction: Wood and Paper, Oil and Gas, Consumption, Finance...
	www.rainforestweb.org (126 words)

	ethiopundit: Cargo Cult Economics
		Cargo cults are usually revivalist, and in some cases messianic and millenarian, movements found among certain peoples indigenous to Oceania.
		Cargo, if it does magically appear in the form of massive foreign aid or a flood of petrodollars is assumed to be better than nothing at all - but it may not be.
		The word cargo refers to foreign goods possessed by Europeans; cult adherents believe that such goods belong to themselves and that, with the help of ancestral spirits, the goods can be returned to them through magico-religious means.
	ethiopundit.blogspot.com /2005/01/cargo-cult-economics.html (1549 words)

	World Rainforest Information Portal - Amazon, South America, Asia, Africa - Rain forest web.org
		Rainforest Information: Indigenous Peoples, Animals, Plants, Kids, Biodiversity, Maps...
		Rainforest Regions: South America, Africa, Asia, North and Central America, Oceania, Indonesia, Brazil, Canada...
		Rainforest Destruction: Wood and Paper, Oil and Gas, Consumption, Finance...
	www.rainforestweb.org (126 words)

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