The Associated Press reports that an Arizona tribe is asking a Paris auction house to cancel an upcoming sale of dozens of items that the tribe says is central to its religious practices. The tribe also demands their return to their original home. The auction house describes the collection as katsina masks of the Hopi Indians of Arizona. Read more: [...]

A conference entitled the International Seminar on the Doctrine of Discovery is being cohosted by the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council and Thompson Rivers University on September 20th and 21st in Kamlopps British Columbia. The conference will address how the colonial doctrine of discovery continues to form the foundation of North American legal systems and how this concept has [...]

Indian Country Today, reports Aug. 15, at page 14, "A document historic in the realm of Native American and First Nations finance was signed in Winnipeg, Canada on July 17. The Aboriginal financial institution Tribal Wi-Chi-Way-Win Capital Corporation (TWCC), is leading a group of Native American and First Nations-owned capital corporations to start a new [...]

August 9 is the international indigenous peoples' Day. Please check out our blog entry on the Oxford University Press website: http://blog.oup.com/2012/08/doctrine-discovery-indigenous-peoples/

Survival International reports the earth’s ‘most threatened tribe has made a desperate appeal for the Brazilian government to halt the illegal logging that is ravaging its territory. Survival reports that the Awá tribe suffers the fastest rate of deforestation in the Amazon, and that the start of the dry season has brought a huge upsurge in illegal [...]

A blog reports on "underreported struggles."  http://intercontinentalcry.org/underreported-struggles-62-may-2012/   The May 2012 edition reports (among other items): 1. the Wixarika (Huichol) people located in Mexico, slammed that government for recently announcing measures to protect thousands of acres of Wixarika sacred land.  The government, media, and the general public are calling this a victory but the Wixarika leaders say that it's [...]

The 15th century international law Doctrine of Discovery in the modern world, by Robert J. Miller   The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is holding its 11th annual meeting in New York May 7-18. More than 1,500 Indigenous Peoples will attend the meeting to address critical issues facing Indigenous Nations today. The main [...]

Survival charges that Peru is secretly pursuing new gas reserve developments inside protected tribal land, in flagrant violation of laws that prevent such projects. The Nahua-Nanti Reserve in southeast Peru is known for its uncontacted Amazon tribes, and for a wide stretch of gas fields called the Camisea project. Now Peru has released plans for the country’s first [...]

Botswana’s security forces are arresting and intimidating Bushmen for exercising the tribe’s legal right to live and hunt in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). Survival International reports that a large group of police officers have set up a permanent camp close to the Bushmen community of Metsiamenong. Police have made at least 5 arrests after finding [...]

On Apr. 27, the Chilean Supreme Court affirmed a decision by an appeals court to cancel the environmental permit granted to the Canadian mining giant Goldcorp for the El Morro gold and copper mine in the northern Chilean region of Atacama. The Court ordered the company to consult with the Diaguita de los Huascoaltinos Indigenous community before carrying out any [...]