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Gaspar Pedro Gonzalez talks about being an indigenous writer who publishes in Mayan and writes about Guatemalan issues through an indigenous point of view.

Luis macas talks about the role and influence of indigenous candidates and politicians in Ecuadorian politics.

The find of a mummy burial in old Incan lands led to an international discussion of the rights of indigenous communities to the remains of their ancestors.

Indigenous communities have successfully been fighting for the restitution of their cultural properties, both on the physical level and on the intellectual level.

The Wichi, an indigenous people in Argentina, have experienced degrading environmental conditions and a refusal of the Argentinian government to grant them land rights. They have reacted by pursuing political recognition.

Previously isolated Amazonian communities, including the Urarina, have become exposed to "old" and "new" diseases from the outside world.

A group of Nambikwara were attacked by loggers and miners in Mata Grosso, Brazil.

A subsidiary of Canada Tiomin Rsources threatens Ngobe-Bugle land with the opening of a copper mine.

The Confederacy of Muchik peoples was reseablshed in Peru with the help of SAIIC and Richard P. Schaedel.

The Brazilian Supreme Court prevents the dispossion of Guarani-Kaiowa from their lands.

Eight Mapuche have been arrested in Argentina in a fight to protect their land from government forces and police.

A discussion of cultural extinction and the need of indigenous people to unite and fight the forces that threaten them.