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Facing Colonization: Interview with Alfonso Palma, President of ONIC (Colombia)

Tags: Alfonso Palmas, Colombia, ONIC, Spring 1992, Spring/Summer 1992, Summer 1992

SAIIC interviews Alfonso Palmas, the president of ONIC (the Organization of Indigenous Nationalities of Colombia) about his role in the organization, the goals of the organization, and more.

Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer 1987)

Tags: Balau, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Earthquake in Indian Community, Ecuador, El Salvador, Evangelical Proselytizing, Mapuche, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, rebirth of Mayan spirituality, religious conversion, SIL, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Women in Peru, Yanomami, Zapotec

This issue of the SAIIC Newsletter covers a broad range of topics surrounding the main theme of evangelical proselytizing (conversion) in South and Central America, along with the effects on Indian communities.

Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon Hold International Meeting (Amazonia)

Tags: ACIPY, AIDESEP, Bolivia, Brazil, CIDOB, Colombia, CONFENAIE, Ecuador, La Coordinadora, ONIC, Peru, Surinam, Treaty of Amazon Cooperation, TUNASARAPA, UNI, Venezuela

Sixty delegates from Indian organizations originating in seven Amazonian countries, met in May of 1988 to hold the third meeting of La Coordinadora to discuss massacres and other political problems plaguing their tribes.

Colombia - Maanifestaciones Pacificas Atacadas por la Fuerzas del Gobierno (500 Anos de Lucha)

Tags: Colombia, Protest

Vol. 2, No. 4 (Summer 1986)

Tags: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Huilliche Indians, Human Rights activists missing, Mapuche, Peru, Rapa Nui, Refugees, rondonia, Summer 1986, Violence

Indians Caught up in Climate of War (Colombia)

Tags: Cauca, Colombia, Manuel Quintin Lame

Inspired by Manuel Quintin Lame, an
Indian leader who was killed at the turn of the
century for defending Indian land, CRIC
began to take back land and stop paying rent.

ONIC Publication Celebrates Tenth Anniversary (Colombia)

Tags: Bogota, Cauca, Colombia, guerrilla, Javier Delgado

At present in Colombia there is a climate of war between the government and guerrilla forces. The army has occupied the Cauca region and the air force is continuously bombing.

Vol. 2, No. 2 (Winter 1986)

Tags: Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Peru, SANTA FE CONGRESS, Winter 1986

Colombia and Photo from "Como Nos Organizamos"

Tags: Carrera, Cauca Valley, Colombia, ONIC

SAIIC has received two news releases from the Organization National Indigena de Colombia.

Vol. 2, No. 1 (Fall 1985)

Tags: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dan Bomberry, Ecuador, Fall 19785, Mexico, Peru, Phillip Deere, UNITED NATIONS WORKING GROUP ON INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS

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Mexico and Colombia

Tags: Alvaro Vasquez, Colombia, Mexico, Pueblo Nuevo

Alvaro Vasquez, representative of the Assembly of Zapotec and Chinantec Peoples of the Oaxaca Sierra was in the San Francisco Bay Area to organize an exposition of Zapotec-Chinantec lithographs and to show videos about his people.

Briefs and Announcements

Tags: Bogota, Colombia, Jennie Joe, Nicaragua

A group of people working in film, video, and photography has meeting monthly in the San Francisco Bay Area. Indigenous concerns are a major focus of the group.

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