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BRASILIA, Brazil, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, for several reasons, the indigenous question occupies a prominent place on the agenda of the Brazilian government, the Congress, the Justice and the lives of farmers in the country. The National Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil (CNA) reports that, for the first time, the President of Brazil is taking charge and assuming the task of managing the different interests involved. And it does so in an unprecedented...
Cherokee Nation-owned companies continue upward trend of creating jobs, supporting services. TULSA, Okla (PRWEB) March 22, 2013 Cherokee Nation Businesses, the Cherokee Nation’s economic engine, today reported record revenue for 2012 and a strong start to the first half of fiscal year 2013. The company’s sole shareholder, the Cherokee Nation, is also seeing the effects of the strong fiscal performance in services to the Cherokee people. “We’re excited to see our businesses perform...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online The largest survey of Native American DNA ever conducted has revealed that people settled the New World in three distinct waves, not one as previously believed, various media outlets reported Wednesday. According to Robert Lee Hotz of the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Medical School Geneticist David Reich and an international team of colleagues compared thousands of genetic variations among 52 contemporary Native American...
Scientists have found that Native American populations — from Canada to the southern tip of Chile — arose from at least three migrations, with the majority descended entirely from a single group of First American migrants that crossed over through Beringia, a land bridge between Asia and America that existed during the ice ages, more than 15,000 years ago. By studying variations in Native American DNA sequences, the international team found that while most of the Native American...
Citing global land-grab, lack of action by authorities in vulnerable nations, authors warn of risk to positive 20-year global trend -- even in Latin America New research released today by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) shows that hundreds of millions of forest peoples in tropical nations have, in the last 20 years, quietly gained unprecedented legal rights to the land and resources owned under customary law. The research also finds, however, that more than one-third of the rules...
TSX : AXY VANCOUVER, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Alterra Power Corp. (TSX: AXY) and the Klahoose First Nation are pleased to announce that they have signed a Resource Development Agreement (RDA), establishing the framework under which Alterra and the Klahoose will work together to advance the Upper Toba run-of-river hydroelectric project, which lies within the traditional territory of the Klahoose First Nation. The comprehensive RDA sets out the terms under which the...
Afro-Colombians Receive Collective Land Titles from U.S. and Colombian Presidents WASHINGTON, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In conjunction with the 2012 Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, on April 15 President Barack Obama and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos handed over collective land titles to authorities of the Afro-Colombian communities of Palenque de San Basilio and La Boquilla. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120308/DC67185LOGO-b) USAID's...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's largest gathering of Native American and indigenous people will take place in Albuquerque, N.M. between April 26 and 28, 2012. The 29th Annual Gathering of Nations, considered the most prominent Native American powwow in the world, will host tens of thousands of people and more than 500 tribes from throughout the United States, Canada, and around the world. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120418/LA89239)...
[ Watch the Video ] Educator develops multimedia tools to share Ojibwe language and culture University of Minnesota Duluth education professor Mary Hermes says saving an endangered language goes beyond just enriching the people who speak it. "I think people have got to get beyond thinking it's just for the Ojibwe people, that we want to save their Ojibwe language. There's 10,000 years of human evolution and knowledge in that language," she says. With support from the National...
(( )) (( )) (( )) (( )) NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Delegates from more than 120 countries are being reminded of the true cost of gold mining on the first day of a meeting to negotiate a global mercury treaty. Discussions focused on small-scale mining since it is the largest deliberate use of mercury. While delegates debated mercury control and economic benefits of the activity, civil society representatives and Indigenous Peoples distributed postcards with...
