This is an old news item from Oct. 2010, but it presents the classic decision all cultures have to make in deciding how far to go with economic development and utilizing one's natural resources. The Northern Cheyenne Tribe in Montana has long resisted developing its coal reserves. The Crow Tribe, located immediately adjacent to the Cheyenne, [...]

The Belo Monte dam in Brazil, which will allegedly be the third largest dam in the world, will displace dozens of Brazilian Indigenous groups. The dam is very controversial. On Monday, a Brazilian judge put a hold on the dam because the government of Brazil had not previously consulted with Indigenous peoples. Brazilian federal judge Selene [...]

An Indian Country Today article, Oct. 5, 2011, at 12, reports that WikiLeaks released thousands of United States diplomatic cables that show, among many other things, America's concerns about Indigenous Peoples claiming rights under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).  The U.S. only agreed in December 2010 to partially comply with the [...]

Cultural Survival sent this message about Columbus Day Each year the recognition of Columbus Day places Indigenous Peoples in a painfully uncomfortable position. In the year 2011, as Native people in this country, we still must explain our feelings about a historically inaccurate, national holiday.       The fact that Christopher Columbus did not "discover" America seems to [...]

Several American Indian and Indigenous groups have raised the very valid question about why Columbus Day is a national holiday. Columbus did not "discover" any part of the modern day United States.  Furthermore, the Spanish colonization of the New World that he instigated was devastating, to say the least, to the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.  [...]

Yo puedo enviar usted los articulos sobre Chile en Espanol y sobre Brasil en Portugese si usted email yo. Rmiller@lclark.edu You can download the articles in English for free by clicking the links: Brazil, Indigenous Peoples, and the International Law of Discovery, 37 Brooklyn Journal of International Law __ (2011): http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1768350 The International Law of [...]

Lo siento por mi Espanol. Yo no hablo mucho. Estoy un profesor de leyes en los Estados Unidos. Yo escribe articulos sobre Espana y Chile y ley international sobre tribus indigenas y sobre Portugal y Brazil. Yo puedo enviar usted los articulos sobre Chile en Espanol y sobre Brasil en Portugese si usted email yo. [...]

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS) will hear a complaint brought by six First Nations that charges Canada with the uncompensated taking of their ancestral territory to benefit private forestry and development corporations on Vancouver Island. The Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group (HTG), comprised of the Cowichan Tribes, Lake Cowichan [...]

Tiger Woods and his partner LPGA Tour player Suzann Pettersen finished third in the Notah Begay Foundation tournament. Tiger and Notah were roommates and teammates on their college golf team. Begay’s foundation received a $500,000 check from the golf event. The Foundation fights obesity and diabetes in American Indian communities. News From Indian Country, Sept. [...]

In an ominous move, on July 1, the Hoopa Valley Tribe in Northern California shut down its weekly newspaper, The Two Rivers Tribune, citing financial problems and recent editorial decisions. The papers interim managing editor disputed the tribal claims and stated that the paper was profitable last year and on track to make money again [...]