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The Coordinating Commission of Indigenous Women of Bolivia will hold the First National Encounter of Indigenous Women of Bolivia on June 21-23, 1993 in Tiwanaku.

Indigenous leaders assemble to try to restore the power of Indigenous authorities.

An Nahuat man, Anastacio Esquino, died at the age of 117 years in April 1993 in his home village. Anastacio Esquino survived the 1935 massacre at the hands of the Salvadoran army.

SAIIC announces that, beginning with the current issue, it will add two new sections to their newsletter. It also announces that the SAIIC Women's Project will come out with a new publication entitled Daughters of Abya Yala.

Guatemalan refugees return to Guatemala from Mexico. Most fled to escape the military's scorched earth tactics in the 1980s.

An Ixíl woman, who lost everything when her family fled to Mexico from the military in Guatemala, returns home to her village in Guatemala ready to rebuild.

The Iximché Language Center is a project that created a language school in Chimaltenango. The program offers instruction in either Spanish, Caqchiquel, or Quiche.

The Kuna have demarcated their territory. Colonizers recently destroyed a house within Kuna territory.

SAIIC interviews Arturo Pimentel, the General Coordinator of the Binational Mixtec and Zapotec Front, which is based in California and Mexico. The meeting established Zapotec and Mixtec demands for basic infrastructure from the Mexican government as…

Frustrated Native Hawaiians march in 1993 to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the US overthrow of the Hawaiian queen. Native Hawaiians are becoming more in favor of Hawaiian sovereignty.

The Colombian state is planning to build roads, hydroelectric facilites, ports, and a land bridge to compete with the Panama Canal in the largely untouched rainforest of El Choco. The plan would displace 110,000 indigenous people and the Embera,…

The purpose of the Second Encounter of the International Committee of the Indigenous Press was to continue the process of decolonization of the media and to launch the First Continental Office of the Indigenous Press.