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Vol. 6, No. 3 (Spring and Summer 1992) "March on Quito: Amazon Indians Demand To be Heard"

Tags: 1992, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Indian Women, March on Quito, Meso America, Mesoamerica, Mexico, Panama, Sacha Yachana Research Center, Spring 1992, Summer 1992

This issue of volume 6 covers a broad set of topics from health concerns, land disputes, and meetings between indigenous groups, just to name a few. It discusses these issues in the context of several Central/South American regions.

Military Reserves on Indian Lands in the Amazon (Brasil)

Tags: Amazon Rainforest, Brazil, CIMI, Indigenous Council of Missionaries, Military Reserves

The first paragraph on page nine discusses the presence of military reserves on Indian lands in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil.

President Postures Under International Pressure: Bombing of Airstrips is Meaningless (Amazon)

Tags: bombings, Brazil, President Fernando Collor de Mello, Roraima, Yanomami, Yanomami David Kopenawa

A gold rush in the Roraima region of Brazil brought thousands of miners to the area. These miners brought many diseases with them that the Yanomami Tribe was not immune to, thus wiping out 15% of the tribe. The Brazilian Government ordered the…

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.

SIL Serves Government Interests In Brazil

Tags: Brazil, SIL, Summer Institute of Linguistics, UNI, Union of Indian Nations

Most of this text is a statement from the Summer Institute of Linguistics that was then presented by the Union of Indian Nations to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Peoples in Geneva, Switzerland.

Violent Conflicts in Yanomani Area Continue (Brazil)

Tags: Brazil, FUNAI, National Indian Foundation, Yanomami

After the death of an eight-year-old Yanomani girl, the violence erupted into a genocide of Yanomami people by gold miners.

Julia Macuxi: "I'm Going to Continue in this Struggle" (Brazil)

Tags: Brazil, Macuxi, Roraima, Summer 1988

Julia, a Macuxi Indian, asks for help from US citizens to help her situation in Roraima, Brazil.

Tikuna Massacre - Update (Brazil)

Tags: Brazil, Massacre, Summer 1988, Tikuna Indians

Twenty-seven Tikuna Indians were massacred in March of 1988. Local authorities had a "strong unwillingness" to solve the case.

Amazonian Indian Visits the United States (Brazil)

Tags: Brazil, Gilberto Macuxi, Macuxi, Macuxi Indians, Summer 1988

Gilberto Macuxi, an Indian from Brazil, gives a testimonial about what is happening to his tribe during a trip to the United States.

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.

Italian Oil Company Occupies Area Belonging to Xavante Indians (Brazil)

Tags: Brazil, encroachment, Italian oil, Xavante Indians, Xavantes

Representatives of an Italian company in Brazil have opposed the return of Indian lands to the rightful inhabitants. These representatives acted in defiance of the board of their company.

Woodcutter is Killed and Indians are Abducted in the Wake of Invasion of Indian Land (Brazil)

Tags: Brazil, Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau Indians, woodcutters, woodcutters shot by arrows

Three men had been removing hardwood from Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau Indian territory for several months when members of the tribe shot at them with arrows, killing one and wounding the other two.

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