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	Sami peoples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Sami People (there are other names and spellings including Sámi, Saami and the obsolete Lapp) are an indigenous people of northern Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia, covering a total area in the Nordic countries corresponding to the size of Sweden.
		The Sami people is one of the largest groups of indigenous peoples in Europe.
		Priests had tried to convert them, sometimes by cruel means such as burn runedrums (and peoples) on the stake and nail "those damn backdoors" on their coats [a heathenry ritual]; but it was not until the bible got translated major parts converted.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Sami (729 words)

	Indigenous people (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They are generally concerned that the cultures of indigenous peoples are being lost and that indigenous peoples suffer both discrimination and pressure to assimilate into their surrounding societies.
		Lumping indigenous peoples into one group ignores the vast amounts of diversity among them and at the same time imposes a uniform identity on them, which may not be historically accurate.
		Furthermore, it has been pointed out that indigenous people are not necessarily any more self-sufficient or in tune with nature, and that indigenous peoples have themselves created environmental disasters such as those experienced by Easter Island, the Maya civilization, or the disappearance of North American megafauna.
	www.vvvvitamins.com /article-Indigenous_people.html (1385 words)

	FIN16.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The indices of disease of indigenous population in active tuberculoses, viral hepatitis, intestinal infections and diseases of the upper respiratory tract as well as alcoholism exceed that of non-indigenous peoples and Russia as a whole.
		Indigenous peoples who choose traditional lifestyle must be provided with national-cultural autonomy under which their traditional places of habitation obtain the status of reservations or national parks.
		Organizational and financial questions of reforming education for indigenous peoples of the North are to be developed in accordance with the given concept in the case of its approval within the framework of the program of realization of the project.
	www.ankn.uaf.edu /rouslan (4081 words)

	Asia Times: Northern Russia demands end to economic exile
		According to Evdokiya Gaer, Secretary General of the Association of Numerically Small Peoples of Russia, the indigenous inhabitants of the north, Siberia, and the far east have suffered most from the reforms in Russia.
		Characteristically, Kamchatka Itelmens, an indigenous Paleo-Siberian group, decided to boycott the celebrations of the 300th anniversary of Kamchatka becoming part of the Russian empire.
		For Russia's northern indigenous groups the land rights are essential to their survival.
	www.atimes.com /c-asia/BC16Ag02.html (719 words)

	Indigenous peoples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Indigenous peoples are sometimes referred to as aborigines, native peoples, first peoples, first nations or as autochthonous, a Greek term that means "sprung from the earth".
		Furthermore, it has been pointed out that indigenous peoples are not necessarily any more self-sufficient or in tune with nature, and that indigenous peoples have themselves created environmental disasters such as those experienced by Easter Island, the Maya civilization, or the disappearance of Australian and North American megafauna.
		indigenous communities from India, Brazil, and Malaysia and some NGOs, such as GRAIN, ETC and Third World Network), indigenous peoples may be victims of biopiracy when they are submitted to unauthorised use of their biological resources, of their traditional knowledge on these biological resources, of unequal share of benefits between them and a patent holder.
	www.mywiseowl.com /articles/Indigenous_people (1528 words)

	Indigenous Peoples of Northern Russia - ExploreNorth
		The Yamal people of Siberia live on land containing huge gas reserves - the project's aim is to extract the oil without impacting the culture.
		A comprehensive report on the extremely poor conditions in which many of the Indigenous peoples of Siberia live as a result of the destruction of their land by resource extraction.
		Russian Association of the Indigenous Peoples of the North
	www.explorenorth.com /native-ru.html (272 words)

	Human Rights and Economic Development in the Russian Far East
		Native northerners are treated for diseases of the ears, nose and throat, heart, liver, and kidneys, and other ailments far more frequently than are members of the nonindigenous population, and the incidence of death from these conditions is also higher.
		Theeducational system which was intended to integrate the northern peoples into "Soviet" society has failed, while effectively alienating children from their parents and grandparents in language, occupation, and world view, as well as from the land on which they live.
		The implementation of the law, however, is still easilydeterred in the face of many competing ethno-national and international interests; by the lack of adequate legal recourse for indigenous peoples; by their minority status in their homelands with respect to the Russian population; and by the dominance of nonindigenous personnel in northern administration.
	arcticcircle.uconn.edu /SEEJ/Russia/deb.html (3706 words)

	Arctic Council - Indigenous Peoples' Involvement
		The indigenous peoples considered the Rovaniemi ministerial meeting "historic" since it was the first time that indigenous peoples of the area also participated in the preparatory process of making of an international declaration.
		Indigenous knowledge is considered to be dependent on the existence of indigenous peoples and their way of life.
		Russia has pointed out that in their country there are several indigenous groups, which if the participation category were opened, would want to become permanent participants in the Council.
	arcticcircle.uconn.edu /NatResources/Policy/tennberg.html (2737 words)

	Information of the RAIPON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		According to Larisa Abryutina, the main reason of the crisis in the development of the indigenous peoples is the overwhelming state patrimony and paternalism policy of the past time, as well as exclusion of children from the families for the education in the boarding schools, transforming the aborigines into the helpless personalities.
		The latter one and the critical state of the health and reproduction of indigenous peoples are connected with the general social and economic crisis in the country and the degradation of the natural environment, provoked by the uncontrolled exploitation of the natural resources.
		There is noted the right of indigenous communities to establish "the territorial bodies of public self-government", the right "on the voluntary basis to organize the communities of indigenous peoples for the social, economic and cultural development, protection of the traditional habitat and the environment, lifestyle, economy and aboriginal activities".
	www.raipon.org /english/raipon/1997_2001.html (3580 words)

	FOURTH SESSION OF THE PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES ON THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Indigenous People of LAC are some of the "poorest of the poor" and most disadvantaged, especially in rural areas.
		Indigenous Peoples have repeatedly emphasized that their unique visions of development – and their traditional knowledge and sustainable practices that have been key to safeguarding the environment for centuries – should be taken into account.
		Indigenous women have always played a key though undervalued role in the survival of their culture and communities, and are demanding to take their rightful place in discussions and decisions that shape their lives and those of their peoples.
	www.un.int /canada/s-19May2005Sinclair.htm (2020 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		People actually constitute their identity and recognize one another as sharing an identity not through “their genealogical proximity as determined by a past history of relatedness, but the extent to which their own life-histories are intertwined through the shared experience of inhabiting particular places and following particular paths in an environment” (Ingold 2000:148).
		Indigenous reindeer herders are at particular risk, as they would not be able to afford to purchase the extensive tracts of land necessary to migrate seasonally, which is crucial to raising reindeer, and would be prevented from grazing their herds on newly privatized land.
		The status can also be asserted, coopted, and manipulated by indigenous peoples themselves to further their own goals, where they can be “traditional” and claim indigenous status where it is to their advantage, but ignore the dictates of artificially imposed traditionality where it doesn’t serve them.
	www.abdn.ac.uk /chags9/1DONAHOE.htm (10557 words)

	Indigenous people (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Indigenous people is a term applied to what explorers and anthropologists, especially from Europe, used to call "primitive tribes".
		Furthermore, it has been pointed out that indigenous people are not necessarily any more self-sufficient or in tune with nature, and that indigenous peoples have themselves created environmental disasters such as Easter Island, Maya, or the disappearance of North American megafauna.
		indigenous communities from India, Brasil, and Malaysia and some NGOs, such as GRAIN, ETC and Third World Network), indigenous people may be victims of biopiracy when they are submitted to unauthorised use of their biological resources, of their traditional knowledge on these biological resources, of unequal share of benefits between them and a patent holder.
	www.informationquickfind.com /i/in/indigenous_people.html (1921 words)

	CHUM
		It is a consistent evolution of the general foreign policy concept of Russia in the European area and it stems from the objective need to establish a multipolar world, common histories of nations and responsibility of European States for the future of the continent, and complementarity of their economies.
		Indigenous peoples were involved in the development of the European Commission Working Document work_doc98.pdf of 11 May 1998 on support for Indigenous Peoples in the development co-operation of the Community and the Member States.
		Russia All of Finland, Sweden and Denmark and the German Bundesländer Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern St. Petersburg City, Leningrad, Murmansk, Archangelsk (in exceptional circumstances), Pskov and Kaliningrad oblasts, Republic of Karelia - Russia: St. Petersburg City, Leningrad, Murmansk, Archangelsk (in exceptional circumstances), Pskov and Kaliningrad Oblasts, Republic of Karelia.
	www.eu-indigenous.org /links/CHUM.html (6153 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Russia's upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, is currently considering a bill that seeks to limit alcohol sales to the indigenous peoples of Russia's northern regions, including the Evenks, Yakuts, Koryaks, and Nentsi.
		Russia's Academy of Medical Sciences has issued a study saying the death rate due to alcoholism is 16 times higher among northern indigenous peoples than the Russian average.
		As a result, Russia's second-largest oil company, Yukos, which is building a pipeline to pump oil from under the Evenk tundra, says it is bringing in workers and managers from western Russia rather than rely on the local population.
	www.rferl.org /features/2002/02/08022002113411.asp (1889 words)

	INRIPP-II \| Projects \| About \| CSIPN
		It is also consistent with the Russian federal Target Program "Economic and Social Development of the Indigenous peoples of the North to 2010", which calls for the development of practical economic development projects focusing on the commercialization of traditional subsistence activities.
		It is used as a way for assuring effective participation of indigenous peoples in decision-making and for a more equitable distribution of revenues derived from the exploitation of natural resources - both important factors in sustainable, equitable development.
		A group of indigenous and government interns will then be selected from among those having received training at the RITC They will travel to Canada to visit and gather first-hand information by meeting with other Canadian Aboriginal people, industry and government agencies involved in co-management.
	csipn.ru /about/en/inripp.htm (1546 words)

	Nutrition and Health of Northern Indigenous Peoples: Project description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Life providing systems of indigenous peoples in the arctic countries have traditionally been based on various types of resources and environment exploitation.
		An analysis of the current changes and their consequences is essential for developing measures to ensure physical and cultural survival of the native people of the North.
		To investigate the stabilizing factors of impact on indigenous peoples' ethno/social state, their cultural and trophic links with environment.
	www.arctan.org /nuhip (449 words)

	Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The past four years since the III Congress of indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of Russia have shown that despite the challenges in the political, economic and social reforms accompanied by a number of crisis situations, we survived and managed to sustain the spiritual and moral bases of our life.
		At the III Congress of the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation in March 1997, the delegates defined the priorities to work with in the next four years.
		Unfortunately, in Russia the indigenous issues are co-ordinated at a much lower level, in the Ministry for the Federative, Ethnic and Migrational Policy, in the Department of the indigenous peoples at the Ministry of Trade and economic development.
	www.raipon.org /english/events/4conference/report.html (4948 words)

	Totem Peoples Preservation Project
		These cultures were successful at adapting the northern reindeer to their needs, while accepting the range requirements of an animal that could carry heavy loads and people to new, and replenished grazing, hunting and gathering ranges in regional habitats of high elevation, limited terrestrial plant productivity and periodic game resource cyclical variations.
		Though linguists may disagree on the nature of the differences between these peoples, the facts remain that their linguistic backgrounds are turkic in origin, that their ecological habitats and the reindeer they raised nomadically are essentially the same.
		The four related peoples must be supported by national and international efforts and financing to work cooperatively in the face of their common herd of only 1,800 northern reindeer.
	totempeople.hypermart.net /requiem.htm (5406 words)

	Sami peoples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lapponia, a large, 35-chapter book written by the rhetorican Johannes Schefferus (1621 - 1679) is the oldest source of detailed information on Sami culture.
		For the Swedish case, the term 'Sami' have been defined by the government, and included only peoples herding reindeers.
		Sami religion shared many common elements to the Norse mythology and the latter's spiritual parts are often considered to be derived from an aboriginal life style.
	www.mywiseowl.com /articles/Sami (796 words)

	Sami peoples - Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sami inhabitants have in Sweden, Norway and Finland (but not Russia) a vote, besides the regular country democratic election length, in their special designed authority, the Sami Parliament (SP).
		For the Swedish case, the term 'Sami' have been defined by the goverment, and included only peoples herding reindeers.
		In the 16th century, priests had tried to convert them, sometimes by cruel means such as burning runedrums (and peoples) on the stake, but it was not until the bible was translated that major parts converted.
	www.greatestinfo.org /Sami (769 words)

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