indigenous culture

Akha Ride for Freedom

Submitted by Akha on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 21:34
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Mon, 11/05/2007 - Akha

Press Release
Nov. 3, 2007
The Akha Heritage Foundation
PO BOX 6073
Salem, Oregon 97304
www.akha.org
akhalife (a t) gmail.com

"Ride For Freedom"
Coast to Coast by Horseback for Akha Human Rights

Matthew McDaniel and members of the Akha Heritage Foundation will be campaigning for Akha Human Rights and Akha Project advancement with a US National Human Rights Tour.

But there is something different about this tour.

Hadzabe-Kein Bedarf nach Entwicklung

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 21:32
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Tue, 10/16/2007 - 12:18 — A German narrated film, about the Hadza, from the Rift valley, titled - "No need for development" this documentary from fPcN Germany describes the situation of the last hunter and gatherer in Tanzania, the Hadzabe, back in the late 1990s.

Hadzabe - Kein Bedarf nach Entwicklung ist eine Filmdokumentation von Freunde der Naturvölker e.V. und beschreibt die Situation des letzten Jäger- und Sammlervolkes in Tansania, die Hadzabe.

"Australian holocaust" - The 'Federal intervention' Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture

Submitted by rains on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 21:12
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Wed, 08/15/2007 - The Honorable Fred Chaney (AO) and Associate Professor Sue Stanton UOW (University of Woolongong) spoke to a well-attended Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture at the Charles Darwin University last night

The theme:'40 years since the Referendum: Learning from the past, walking into the future' - was heavily influenced by the Federal intervention into Northern Territory Aboriginal homelands

Hadzabe saga takes strange twist

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 20:21
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Wed, 05/23/2007 - The government is investigating alleged violations of human rights against the Hadzabe ethnic group committed by social researchers, tour firms, filmmakers and some non-governmental organizations.

Mbulu District Commissioner Elias Goroi said the activities of tour firms, film makers, social researchers and NGOs operating within Hadzabe territory at Yaeda Chini and Lake Eyasi basin were being probed.

The Hadzabe are an ancient traditional group of hunters and fruit gatherers.

The Vanishing Batak Tribe

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 20:01
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The end of the Batak had come and gone. Their culture was already gone. The language was all that remained. Do you doom yourself and your children to lives of abject poverty, ridden with disease and living with hunger on a daily basis just to preserve a language?

Strip converts of quota benefits, demand tribals

Submitted by rains on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 19:28
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Ranchi - Jharkhand tribal leaders and priests want immediate stripping of reservation facilities of past members of their community who are now converted Christians.

The tribal group, known as Sarna, has demanded that the reservation facilities provided to tribal Christians be stopped immediately.
The Kendriya Sarna Samiitee (KSS), one of the prominent organisations, has taken the lead in making the demand.

Letter from Benny Wenda, Chair of DeMMaK (The Koteka Tribal Assembly) and International Lobbyist in the UK for a Free W

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 19:20
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Mr. António Guterres
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Case Postale 2500
CH-1211
Genève 2 Dépôt
Switzerland

1st June 2006

Dear High Commissioner

I am a tribal leader from West Papua, and an international lobbyist on behalf of my country. Further to my letter of April 06, I am writing to you to express my continuing concern about the plight of my people, and to urge you to do all you can to help them.

Modi blasts missionaries at RSS tribal meet - India

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 19:00
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AHWA: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Saturday criticised Christian missionaries' conversion activities and told a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) meeting here in the Dangs district that the central government had failed to stop them.

"The constitution is against forcible conversion. The state, however, is doing little to stop such conversions," he told a gathering of more than 150,000 RSS activists.
"Mahatma Gandhi too had opposed forcible conversions. If he were alive today and were to say so, they would have lambasted him as well," Modi said.

Does School Education Uproot Indigenous People?

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 18:56
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Prof. Dr. David Poeppel maintains that in a child the conditioning of ideas and the strategies for overcoming and perceiving problems is formed by school education through the reduction of the variety of all the connections of the synapses drawn up in childhood. That is to say that school education influences the thoughts and emotions of a child in a certain direction through curricula and an institutional evaluation.

Indigenous People as an Economic Obstacle

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 18:53
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One problem aboriginal people living in their traditional manner have, is that their life is not based on a monetary system, and so does not correspond to our conception of economy.

As hunters and gatherers, for example, they can exist independently of any economic system and state form. Since the majority of nations in the world have assumed state forms to rule their own economic interests, it is not possible for them to support, or better still: put up with, other forms of living.