Read the article, watch the video, and see photos of these beautiful guitars at cherokeephoenix.org: Cherokees Create Artwork Using Guitars
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Apr 042012
SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Peru’s government is ignoring new UN guidelines on the protection of uncontacted Indians in the Amazon. Instead of backing the UN’s landmark report, which supports the tribes’ right to be left alone, Peru is allowing the country’s largest gas project to expand further into indigenous territories known to house numerous uncontacted [...]
Mar 212012
A bald eagle interpretive program will be presented on Sunday, April 8, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. at the Shiloh Battlefield Visitor Center. An eagle pair has nested at Shiloh since 2007 and have since successfully raised four eaglets on the battlefield. Each year as the size of the nest increased, it became more difficult to observe nest activity [...]
SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE ‘Genocide’ risk in Brazil despite UN push to end racism Calls are growing to stop ‘a real situation of genocide’ inside Brazil’s Amazon, as the UN marks International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Experts warn Brazil’s Awá tribe will face extinction unless more is done to protect their land [...]
Mar 202012
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced more than $4.2 million in Tribal Wildlife Grants to 23 Native American Tribes in 17 states to fund a wide range of conservation projects ranging from salmon restoration to invasive species control. “Native American tribes have a deep and abiding knowledge of the land and its [...]
The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians in Oregon worked with the National Geographic Fellows and Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania to create a 14,000 word online “talking dictionary” of the Siletz language, while Canada’s Inuit people joined forces with Microsoft to translate the Windows operating system and Office software into Inuktitut. Read and listen to the story on the [...]
According to a story on National Public Radio, Alaskan Native people are divided on off-shore oil drilling in the Arctic ocean. Some oppose it because of environmental concerns, while others favor it because of economic factors. Read and listen to the story here: Native Alaskans Divided On State’s Oil Drilling Debate Links related to the [...]
The Northern Arapaho in Wyoming have received a permit, the first of its kind, from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to hunt two bald eagles for religious purposes and Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, called the decision to issue the permit ”unsettling”. Read the story on the Reuters web site: Wyoming [...]
The Environmental News Service reports that on March 8 Ecuadorian Indians began a 12 day march from southern Ecuador to the capital city, Quito, protesting construction of a large copper mine by a Canadian company and the government’s plans to allow international companies to develop more large scale mines. The marchers plan on reaching their destination on [...]
Mar 082012
6th Annual Monument Valley Film, Blues and Arts Festival – Kayenta, Arizona September 21, 22, & 23, 2012 The Monument Valley Film, Blues and Arts Festival is a free event held every year in Kayenta, Arizona, the first and only Native American festival of its kind to be held on the Navajo Nation. The goal [...]
Read the story at Native News Network: Menominee Seventh Grader Suspended for Saying “I Love You” in her Native Language
Could a Bit More Rain Have Saved the Mayas?
