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Stories that focus on indigenous governments and their relationships with nation states.

Quichua female elders visit several cities in the United States with the help of the Quichua Potter's Cultural Exchange tour organized by OPIP (Organization of Indigenous Peoples of Pastaza). This is part of an effort to expand alternate trade…

Conflicts between logging and mining companies in Surinam have destabilized the region.

Indigenous groups met to discuss autonomy, its implications, and how it could be achieved, with a focus on events in Chiapas.

Indigenous peoples in the northern Argentinean Salta region wait for an official land title for the area where they live. They require a joint title for their communities in order to continue to live traditionally and not face threats by neighbor…

Indigenous peoples around the world begin to use computers and internet technologies to communicate. This will strengthen indigenous networks and organizations.

OXY, a western oil corporation, has invaded Candoshi land. This will undoubtedly have detrimental effects on the ecosystem.

Asháninka communities in the Selva Central region of Peru have been forced to leave their lands due to guerilla violence. Mino Eusebio Castro, vice-president of the Inter-Ethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rain Forest, talks about…

Recommended readings from SAIIC.

Indigenous peoples along the Rio Coco that splits the countries of Honduras and Nicaragua have been subjugated to unequal land and resource agreements. Because of the Sandinista government and the Nicaraguan civil war, indigenous peoples in the area…

There has been rising support for indigenous languages in Mexico, with groups working to make indigenous languages more accessible in written formats.

A series of assassinations of Mixtec Indians along with the massacre of campesinos has made June one of the bloodiest months in recent history for Indigenous peoples in Mexico.