In June of 1985, the United States Secretary of Defense announced, in conjunction with the regime of Augusto Pinochet that they would be putting an aerospace station on Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island. The people of Rapa Nui took to writing…
In June of 1986, three major Mapuche organizations, including Centros Culturales Mapuches, AD-Mapu, and Nehuen Mapu, gathered and compiled a list of goals.
Carlos Orlando Lincoman, a member of the central council which represents 137 communities of Huilliche people discusses the encroachment of non-indigenous people on land that belongs to the Indigenous groups.
The Confederation of Indian Nations in the Ecuadorian
Amazon expresses that the large companies who are exploiting their lands for oil have become the largest threat to Indian nations.