Indigenous Voices

    A newspaper article about Nelcia Robinson, a Garifuna woman who served as spokesperson for the Caribbean Organization of Indigenous Peoples. It details her efforts to create networks among Garifuna a

    The efforts of the Mayan people of Belize to resist the threat of economic and cultural oppression by "preserving the past for the future" in videos is described in this brief magazine article.

    The land rights struggle of Guyanese Indigenous communities is presented in this article. The government's proposal regarding a new conservation project, covering much of the Southern and Western par

    The CERLAC Resource Centre has 14 issues of Survival International Review from 1976 to 1982, 25 issues of Survival International News from 1983 to 1990, and 14 issues of Urgent Action Bulletin from t

    This report deals with the same issues as the letter from Survival International Director Barbara Bentley to Robert McNamara (See Letter from Barbara Bentley to Robert McNamara).

    During a visit to Canada, an Indigenous activist from Dominica, Garmette Joseph, spoke about the ways in which Carib peoples are seeking to "rediscover some of the lost traditions" of their communiti

    This article on the annual Inter-American Congress on Indigenous Populations presents both critiques of Brazilian policy toward Amazonic peoples (e.g., Ralph Nader's accusations of genocide) and the

    Two items: 1) Cover Page and 2) Table of Contents. 1) The cover page for a report on the Miskito case between 1981 and 1984. 2) The Table of Contents lists the ten parts of the report: 1) Preface; 2)

    Campesinos (mostly Indigenous peasant farmers) made up two thirds of Bolivia's population (in 1985), and this article discusses their demands to the right to participate in Bolivian politics, the cam

    This open letter to the Ecuadorian government by la Confederación de Nacionalidades Indigenas de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana (the Confederation of Indigenous Nations of the Ecuadorian Amazon) denounces t

    The genocide of Brazil's Amazonic peoples is recorded in this article, in connection with historic and contemporary modes of colonization.

    This report provides an example of the types denunciations that the Commission circulated about the terrible offenses against the human rights of Guatemala's Indigenous peoples.

    Spokesperson for the Zapatista Movement, Subcomandante Marcos, became an international anti-neoliberal celebrity. The rebellion was launched on the day that US, Mexico, and Canada signed a free-trade

    Cover page and Introduction to the 1980 Iximché Declaration of Guatemala's Indigenous peoples regarding continuous resistance to the extremes of colonial oppression in the past and the present.

    Two items: 1) Cover Page and 2) an article. 1) The cover page of the newsletter highlights its theme on Indigenous rights in Nicaragua. 2) "Conclusions and Thoughts for the Future": Focusing on the 1

    The Fourth Tribunal focused on the rights of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, with special reference to the Guatemalan government's campaigns of abuse and terror against the Quiché people in f

    Two items: 1) Cover Page and 2) Inside Front Cover. 1) The cover page of an Instituto de Estudios Aymaras (Institute of Aymara Studies) bulletin from April 1981. 2) The inside of the front cover outl

    Two items: 1) Cover Page and 2) Table of Contents. 1) The cover page of a report on the relocation of Miskito Indigenous people in light of US intervention on the Atlantic Coast. 2) The table of cont

    The conquest and resource exploitation of the Amazon territories is discussed in this presentation to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations. The presentation emphasizes "the esse

    CERLAC has three issues of IXIM.