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Out in the Cold: The Legacy of Canada's Inuit Relocation Experiment in the High Arctic

Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Alan R. Marcus
Number of pages: 118
ISSN number: 0105-6387
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Canada, Canadá
Region publication is about: Arctic, Ártico
Release year: 1992
In March 1990, members of Canada's Parliamentary Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs listened to testimony presented by Inuit (Eskimos) who had been the subject of a 1950s government relocation experiment. The Inuit recounted years of suffering and neglect as a result of their resettlement. Eleven Inuit families had been moved by the Canadian government from the region of Port Harrison (now I...
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Roads, Indians and Environment in the Amazon: From Central Brazil to the Pacific

Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Mauro Leonel
Number of pages: 155
ISSN number: 0105-6387
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Brazil, Brasil
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 1992
This document conatains an unedited work of high scientific value on the consequences of the contruction of the Amazonian highways on indigenous populations, non-indigenous people who also use the Amazon and on the environment. Translation from Portuguese: Edda Frost and Sam Poole  
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IWGIA Annual Report 1991

Publisher: IWGIA
Number of pages: 16
Publication language: English
Release year: 1992
IWGIA's Annual Report presents the results of IWGIA's activities in 1991 and highlights examples of projects and processes implemented or supported by IWGIA throughout the year.
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Indfødte Folk

Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Jens Dahl
Number of pages: 60
ISBN number: 87-984110-1-2
Publication language: Danish
Region publication is about: International, Internacional
Release year: 1992
Release Month | Day: feb-92
Den 12. oktober 1992 var det 500 år siden Columbus kom til Amerika. Med Columbus' færd over havet var grunden lagt til koloniseringen af den oprindelige indfødte befolkning - indianerne i Nord- og Sydamerika. For 500 år siden tilhørte Amazonas regnskovsindianerne. I dag er indianerne i Amazonas - som indfødte folk over hele kloden - truet af nybyggere, guldgravere, tømmerbaroner osv. Med ek...
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Yearbook 1990

Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Compiled and edited by Teresa Aparicio
Number of pages: 282
ISSN number: 0902-6266
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Africa, África, Arctic, Ártico, Asia, Latin America, América Latina, North America, América del Norte , Pacific, Pacífico
Release year: 1991
This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1990 among indigenous peoples.
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'Life Is not Ours' - Land and Human Rights in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

Publisher: IWGIA & The Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission
Author: The Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission
Number of pages: 110
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Bangladesh
Region publication is about: Asia
Release year: 1991
Release Month | Day: May-07
The Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission is an independent body established to investigate allegations of human rights violations in the hill region of southeast Bangladesh. In November 1990, the Commission received permission from the governments of India and Bangladesh to visit the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) and the camps in Tripura where people forced to flee their homes in the Hill Tracts now l...
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IWGIA Annual Report 1990

Publisher: IWGIA
Number of pages: 22
Publication language: English
Release year: 1991
IWGIA's Annual Report presents the results of IWGIA's activities in 1990 and highlights examples of projects and processes implemented or supported by IWGIA throughout the year.
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Between the Spice of Life and the Melting Pot: Biodiversity Conservation and its Impact on Indigenous Peoples

Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Andrew Gray
Number of pages: 74
ISSN number: 0105-6387
Publication language: English
Release year: 1991
When the survival of the rainforest is under discussion, the rights of indigenous peoples are too often ignored, treated as a low priority or relegated to the footnotes of glossy report. Indigenous peoples have demonstrated that they are the best conservers of their environment which they use and manage according to their own cultural premises. In addition indigenous peoples consider themselves as...
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The Indigenous World 1991

Publisher: The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
Author: Jens Dahl, Alejandro Parellada eds.
Number of pages: 116
ISSN number: 0105-6387
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Africa, África, Arctic, Ártico, Asia, Latin America, América Latina, North America, América del Norte , Pacific, Pacífico
Release year: 1992
This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1991 among indigenous peoples in Asia, Africa, the Arctic, the Pacific and the Americas. Out of print!
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The Indigenous World 1990

Publisher: The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
Number of pages: 144
ISSN number: 0902-6266
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Africa, África, Arctic, Ártico, Asia, Latin America, América Latina, North America, América del Norte , Pacific, Pacífico
Release year: 1991
This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1990 among indigenous peoples in Asia, Africa, the Arctic, the Pacific and the Americas. Out of print!
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Arctic Environment: Indigenous Perspectives

Publisher: IWGIA and Inuit Circumpolar Conference
Number of pages: 48
ISSN number: 0902-6266
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Arctic, Ártico
Financially supported by: 'Carlsen-Langes Legatstiftelse' and 'Dronning Margrethe and Prins Henriks Fond'
Release year: 1991
This document is a presentation and an analysis of the present conflicts of interests between the anti-hunting movement and the indigenous peoples of the Arctic. The right of indigenous peoples to subsistence and economic development based on renewable resources in their homelands will be the focal issue. The anti-hunting movement is an ongoing threat to the survival of indigenous peoples. A solut...
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Critical Issues in Native North America - Volume II

Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Edited by Ward Churchill
Number of pages: 179
ISSN number: 0105-4503
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Canada, Canadá, United States of America, Estados Unidos
Region publication is about: Arctic, Ártico
Release year: 1991
Release Month | Day: jan-91
This document, the second of two volumes, is a collection of articles concerning the problems and issues confronting the indigenous nations of North America. Loss of lands and resources at the hands of contemporary nation-states such as the U.S. and Canada, as well as cultural "assimilation" policies undertaken by these states, have placed Native North America in grave peril. Both the na...
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Yearbook 1989

Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Compiled and edited by Teresa Aparicio and Jens Dahl
Number of pages: 244
ISSN number: 0105-6387
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Africa, África, Arctic, Ártico, Asia, Latin America, América Latina, North America, América del Norte , Pacific, Pacífico
Release year: 1990
This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1989 among indigenous peoples.
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Indigenous Peoples of the Soviet North

Publisher: IWGIA
Number of pages: 56
ISSN number: 0105-6387
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Russia, Rusia
Region publication is about: Arctic, Ártico
Financially supported by: The Solhvervs Fond
Release year: 1990
Release Month | Day: apr-90
In the last few days of March 1990 indigenous peoples of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic met in the Kremlin to establish their first country-wide association. This document is from, and about, this meeting which resulted in the establishment of the "Association of the Small Indigenous Peoples of the Soviet North"
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Indigenous Women on the Move

Publisher: IWGIA
Number of pages: 107
ISSN number: 0105-6387
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: International, Internacional
Release year: 1990
Release Month | Day: apr-90
This first volume of "Indigenous Women on the Move" is composed of 9 articles written by indigenous women wherein they have attempted to show their distinct realities in their different areas of the world. But distinct realities, notwithstanding, and each with their own peculiarities, indigenous women share a common situation, that of being the object of threefold oppression: the oppression by gen...
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People in Between: A Case Study on the Kumil Timber Project. Madang Province, Papua New Guinea

Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Daniela Renner
Number of pages: 83
ISSN number: 0105-6387
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Papua New Guinea, Papua Nueva Guinea
Region publication is about: Asia
Release year: 1990
Release Month | Day: apr-90
Madang Province, Papua New Guinea - an area of tropical rainforest. With the proliferation of transnational timber companies, "development" has come to the area. Papua New Guinea's more than 700 societies have now become dependent on commercial logging. This document deals with one such project - the Kumil Timber Project. In contrast to other areas of tropical rainforest, land and resources are in...
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IWGIA Annual Report 1989

Publisher: IWGIA
Number of pages: 27
Publication language: English
Release year: 1990
IWGIA's Annual Report presents the results of IWGIA's activities in 1989 and highlights examples of projects and processes implemented or supported by IWGIA throughout the year.
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The Indigenous World 1989

Publisher: The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
Author: Teresa Aparicio, Jens Dahl Eds.
Number of pages: 124
ISSN number: 0105-6387
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Africa, África, Arctic, Ártico, Asia, Latin America, América Latina, North America, América del Norte , Pacific, Pacífico
Release year: 1990
This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1989 among indigenous peoples in Asia, Africa, the Arctic, the Pacific and the Americas. Out of print!
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Yearbook 1988 - IWGIA 20 Years

Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Compiled and written by Andrew Gray with special thanks for editorial work to Sheila Aikman and Fay Cohen
Number of pages: 278
ISSN number: 0902-6266
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Africa, África, Arctic, Ártico, Asia, Latin America, América Latina, North America, América del Norte , Pacific, Pacífico
Release year: 1989
This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1988 among indigenous peoples.
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Ethnocide: Mission Accomplished?

Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Ticio Escobar
Number of pages: 64
ISSN number: 0105-4503
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Paraguay, Paraguay
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 1989
Release Month | Day: apr-89
This document describes the cultural genocide of the indigenous peoples of Paraguay by the New Tribes Mission. The fundamentalists missionaries of the NTM have been particularly destructive among the Ayoreode of the Chaco, and the document looks at how the destruction has increased over the last thirty years. The author places the work of the NTM ia a historical context stretching back to the time...
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IWGIA Annual Report 1988

Publisher: IWGIA
Number of pages: 17
Publication language: English
Release year: 1989
IWGIA's Annual Report presents the results of IWGIA's activities in 1988 and highlights examples of projects and processes implemented or supported by IWGIA throughout the year.
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Critical Issues in Native North America - Volume I

Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Edited by Ward Churchill
Number of pages: 194
ISSN number: 0105-4503
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Canada, Canadá, United States of America, Estados Unidos
Region publication is about: Arctic, Ártico
Release year: 1989
Release Month | Day: jan-89
This document, the first of two volumes, is a collection of articles comparing the problems and issues facing the indigenous nations of North America. Loss of lands and resources at the hands of contemporary nation-states such as the U.S. and Canada, as well as cultural "assimilation" policies undertaken by these states, have placed Native North America in grave peril. Both the nature of the threa...
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The Indigenous World 1988

Publisher: The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
Author: Andrew Gray, Sheila Aikman and Fay Cohen eds.
Number of pages: 142
ISSN number: 0902-6266
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Africa, África, Arctic, Ártico, Asia, Latin America, América Latina, North America, América del Norte , Pacific, Pacífico
Release year: 1989
This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1988 among indigenous peoples in Asia, Africa, the Arctic, the Pacific and the Americas. Out of print!
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Verdens urbefolkninger - angår de oss?

Publisher: IWGIA-Norge
Author: Redaksjon: Tove Skotvedt & Cathrine Sverre
Number of pages: 30
ISBN number: 82-991871-0-9
Publication language: Norwegian
Country publication is about: International; internacional
Financially supported by: NORAD
Release year: 1988
Dette heftet fra IWGIA - Den internasjonale arbeidsgruppen for urbefolkningssaker - viser hvor viktige urbefolkningene er i spørsmål som angår menneskerettigheter, naturvern og miljø. Norge har selv en urbefolkning, samene. Norsk industri er sterkt engasjert i urbefolkningsområder. Norge blir sett på som et foregangsland i menneskerettighetssaker og i miljøspørsmål. Det er derfor viktig ...
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Tourism: Manufacturing the Exotic

Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Pierre Rossel (Ed.)
Number of pages: 193
ISSN number: 0105-4503
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Africa, África, Arctic, Ártico, Asia, Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 1988
Release Month | Day: apr-88
The objective of this document is to outline the relationship between tourism and cultural minorities. It aims to understand the nature of the relationship, to point out its most serious and harmful effects and to make known some of the survival strategies which cultural minorities employ. Tourism is the greatest eco­nomic and socio-cultural phenomenon of our epoch and cultural minorities suff...
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IWGIA Annual Report 1987

Publisher: IWGIA
Number of pages: 21
Publication language: English
Release year: 1988
IWGIA's Annual Report presents the results of IWGIA's activities in 1987 and highlights examples of projects and processes implemented or supported by IWGIA throughout the year.
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Yearbook 1987 - Indigenous Peoples and Development

Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Written and compiled by Andrew Gray
Number of pages: 187
ISSN number: 0902-6266
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Africa, África, Arctic, Ártico, Asia, Latin America, América Latina, North America, América del Norte , Pacific, Pacífico
Release year: 1988
This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1987 among indigenous peoples.
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The Indigenous World 1987

Publisher: The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
Author: Andrew Gray, Ed.
Number of pages: 97
ISSN number: 0902-6266
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Africa, África, Arctic, Ártico, Asia, Latin America, América Latina, North America, América del Norte , Pacific, Pacífico
Release year: 1988
This book provides an overview of the present situation and crucial developments in 1987 among indigenous peoples in Asia, Africa, the Arctic, the Pacific and the Americas. Out of print!
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Indigenous survival among the Barí and Arhuaco: Strategies and perspectives

Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Robert Lizarralde, Stephen Beckermann and Peter Elsass
Number of pages: 77
ISSN number: 0105-4503
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Colombia, Venezuela
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 1987
Release Month | Day: apr-87
This document is a collection of articles and material comparing the problems and issues facing the Barí and Arhuaco nations of Venezuela and Columbia. Loss of lands from invading companies and colonists is contrasted with threats to their culture from missionaries. The document not only charts the differences in resistance strategies used by the Arhuacos and Barí but also the different perspect...
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