Following is a synthesis of resolutions from recent meetings which have been organized by and for Indigenous women. We have come together to share experiences and solidarity, and to strengthen our organizational process. 1991.
All indigenous peoples welcome.
Fostering Indigenous Business and Entrepreneurship in the Americas Conference
FIBEA 2008
Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
July 22-25, 2008
Indigenous nations and communities are under increasing pressure to develop long-term sustainable economic development strategies.
The FIBEA Manaus 2008 theme, Fostering Indigenous Business and Entrepreneurship in the Americas Conference, is timely given the importance and variety of business issues that need to be addressed for the development and fostering of business alliances, trade, and investment amongst Indigenous business in North, Central, and South American countries.
Santiago, Chile -- July 14 - 18, 2003
"Rethinking the Americas at the threshold of the 21st century" + "Repensando las Américas los umbrales del siglo XXI" + Repensando as Américas nos umbrals do século XXI"
The organizers and the sponsors extend a cordial invitation to participate in this
academic event to be hosted by the University of Chile, one of the oldest American universities. + Los Organizadores extienden la más cordial invitación a participar
en este evento académico a celebrarse en la Universidad de Chile, una de las más antiguas universidades americanas. + Os Organizadores dirigem a vocês o mais cordial convite a fim
de participarem neste evento acadêmico a se realizar na Universidad de Chile, uma das mais antigas universidades americanas.
Quito, Ecuador, April 1989
There is an urgent need to organize an indigenous response to the celebration of the so-called "Discovery of America," now officially called by some governments "the Encounter of Two Worlds."
The mission of AYF is to increase the control and self-reliance of Indigenous Peoples of the original
nations of Abya Yala by supporting the priorities, initiatives and processes of indigenous
self-development.
A quarterly journal which presents a unique source of news and analysis relating to
Indigenous issues in Meso and South America from Indigenous peoples' perspectives.
This declaration, made by the Mapuche of Jose Jineo, Chile, gives an example of the kind of land-grabbing which is attempted on indigenous territory, with the connivance of the military junta - even though the community has legal title, and no single member has requested sale or division of the land.
ETC group, formerly known as Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI), is dedicated to the conservation and sustainable advancement of cultural and ecological diversity and human rights. To this end, ETC group supports socially responsible developments of technologies useful to the poor and marginalized and it addresses international governance issues and corporate power.
The Tagua ivory sculptures
are done by several
artisans of various groups
in Ecuador. The 'Jungle
Seeds & Beads' jewelry is
done by the Shipibo Tribe of
the Ucayali region of the
Peruvian Amazon.
Visual anthropology and educational resource for photographs and information on Amazon tribes, particularly the Huorani tribe from the Amazon River Basin of South America.
by Betsy Mason, Nature magazine science update, 19 September 2003 . Excavations and maps confirm forest housed advanced society. The Amazon was densely populated before Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World, confirms new evidence unearthed in Brazil. The finds lay to rest the notion that the region was pristine forest when the explorer landed in 1492.
The Urgent Action Network (UAN) is an Amnesty International program
designed to provide a quick, effective response to situations of urgency
involving prisoners, detainees and other threatened individuals.
Andean Trails is a UK based tour operator that organises tours to Amazon Lodges run in conjunction or wholly by indigenous people in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru. We offer tours on a small scale believing in working to protect and preserve indigenous people's culture, economy and the environment.
AnpeWEB, Agencia de Noticias Pluricultural del Ecuador, es una agencia de prensa local, con covertura general, dando atención a las actividades de las organizaciones indígenas y sociales.
ARTE GAUCHO is a company formed by a group of young Argentinian people who are conscious about the cultural wealth of their country. Their goal is to sell and export their traditional and autochthonous handmade products.
La Asociación de Cabildos Indígenas del Norte el Cauca-ACIN, se ha constituido como entidad de apoyo al proceso de comunitario zonal de organización, conformación de la entidad territorial indígena, consolidación de su autonomía política y jurídica y creación de un sistema propio en educación, salud, manejo de recursos naturales y economía solidaria.
Son organizaciones comunitarias integradas en las jurisdicciones cantonales ecuatorianas, instituciones locales reconocidas en la Ley para controlar sistemas con infraestructura de saneamiento básico, construidos en el sector rural del Ecuador mediante cogestión entre el Estado y las comunidades, que las manejan y administran con características sustentables y sostenibles.
La Asociación de Mujeres Indígenas de Chimborazo, LA MINGA, ha venido resolviendo algunos
problemas que adolecen algunos sectores de las poblaciones
indígenas y campesinas de Chimborazo, a través de proyectos de
educación, salud, capacitación y proyectos productivos y otros.
AymaraNet is the world's only internet site with information on the contemporary Aymaras, whose contribution to the humankind includes the domestication of the potatoes. The site has information about social activism, radio broadcasts, publications, scholars, business, professionals, organizations and other general information relating to the Aymaras in Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Ecuador.
Indigenous Movements and the Transformation of Development and Democracy in Latin America. Papers from a Conference held at Princeton University, March 2-3, 2001.
One of the first seminal statements was the Manifesto of Tiawanaku, drawn up by four major Indian/campesino organisations in La Paz, Bolivia, on 30 July 1973.
Brazilink is a non-profit, educational and informative portal on Brazilian development issues. Our sources are selected by experts and continuously updated by
volunteers worldwide.
BrazilMax is “the hip gringo’s guide to Brazil.” Acclaimed in The Guardian of London, the SonntagsZeitung of Zurich and on the Travel Channel website, BrazilMax features immersion travel, geotourism, cultural tourism and ecotourism in South America’s largest and most diverse country. Edited by Bill Hinchberger, former correspondent in Brazil for The Financial Times and Business Week.
Following the bloody coup which toppled the democratically elected Allende government in 1973, the Mapuche nation received the brunt of military oppression in the rural areas of Chile. 1984 was a year of despojo(plunder) during which many Mapuche leaders were arrested and beaten; the Alianza Chilena Anticomunista issued threats against the lives of several leaders of the Mapuche AD-Mapu movement. 1982.
This is an invitation to all Indian people throughout the Americas, to take part in the First Continental Meeting of Indigenous Peoples on the "500 Years of Indian Resistance" commemorations in 1992. The meeting will take place in Quito, Ecuador at the end of June, 1990. The meeting is being organized by the Confederation of Indian Nations of Ecuador (CONAIE).
Somos un grupo étnico muy pequeño que vive en la selva central del Perú. La palabra "Caquinte" significa "hombres" o "gente" en nuestro idioma.
We are a very small ethnic group that lives in the Peruvian jungle. The word "Caquinte" means "men" or "people" in our language.
Por el presente conducto mi dirijo a usted a nombre de Corporación Civil para Infraestructura Socio Económica y de Transformación Agropecuaria –CCISETA- (www.cciseta.org), una Organización no Gubernamental de Desarrollo Ambientalistas e Indianista (ONG-DAI), sin fines de lucro de cobertura regional y nacional.
Conduit my I hereby direct to you to name of Civil Corporation for Economic Infrastructure Partner and of Farming Transformation - CCISETA- (www.cciseta.org), a nonGovernmental Organization of Development Ambientalistas and Indianista (ONG-DAI), without aims of profit of regional and national cover.
El Centro Cultural Abya-Yala (Quito, Ecuador) está desarrollando sus
actividades desde hace 22 años... Además de otras actividades el Centro
cuenta con una Editorial y Librería especializadas... En 1983 se escoge el
nombre de ABYA-YALA para cobijar en un solo sello editorial todas las
publicaciones que se refieren a los pueblos indios del continente...
Chacolinks is a support group for the oppressed Wichi people of Northern Argentina. We are combining small scale development projects, with pressure on national and provincial governments to uphold the land rights of the Wichi.
It is a project supported by Chilean Indigenous People Department under The Ministry of Culture (MINEDUC).
The main goal is to promote the cultural Indigenous customs and values, showing the spiritual, artistic and cultural production through articles and features.
The conflicts which have surfaced in the north of CAUCA where our organization has seen itself confronted by some of the directors of the communist party, the Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, (FARC) necessitates some explanation.
La Comision Internacional de Derechos de Pueblos Indigenas de Sud America es una organizacion
no gubernamental indigena internacional independiente de caracter tecnico y academico, cuyo fin es
la promocion, proteccion y defensa de los derechos colectivos e individuales de los pueblos
indigenas, que se constutuye como asociacion civil sin fines de lucro.
Comunicaciones Mapuche Xeg Xeg es una Corporación de Desarrollo, integrada por mujeres y hombres mapuche, jóvenes de edad o espíritu, que trabajamos por la promoción de la Cultura, la Educación, los derechos linguísticos, económicos y sociopolíticos del pueblo mapuche.
A peruvian non-profit organization that defends the rights of the indigenous people from South America, the traditional medicine, the culture and the environment of the Andean people.
The CSCB is the main organization of the Reconstituted
Native Peoples of Bolivia; it fights for the self-determination of the
original nations of Kollasuyo.
La Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB) es la principal organización sindical de los Pueblos Originarios Quechuas, Aymaras, Tupí Guaraníes y otros trabajadores del campo.
Since its formation in 1986, CONAIE has led the Indigenous peoples of Ecuador from relative isolation to a position at center stage of Ecuadorian society. CONAIE is
the representative body that guarantees Indigenous peoples the
political voice that has too long been denied them, and that expresses
their needs and goals within a rapidly changing world.
Since its formation in 1986, CONAIE has led the Indigenous peoples of Ecuador from relative isolation to
a position at center stage of Ecuadorian society. CONAIE is the representative body that guarantees Indigenous
peoples the political voice that has too long been denied them, and that expresses their needs and goals within
a rapidly changing world.
The Confederation of the
Nationalities Indigenous to the
Amazon of Ecuador, CONFEIAE is
an organization with a long history
of outstanding achievements in
defense of Amazonia and her
Peoples.
La COPPIP es un espacio de encuentro y diálogo entre las
organizaciones indígenas peruanas de costa, sierra y
amazonía que poseen mandato directo emanado de
sus comunidades de base, sean campesinas o
nativas.
Organizacion fundada en 1980, surge como entidad aglutinadora y representativa de los PUEBLOS,
NACIONES y ORGANIZACIONES indigenas de Sud America. El CISA es una organizacion no
gubernamental con status consultivo en el Consejo Economico y Social de las Naciones Unidas
(ONU).
El Consejo Nacional Indio de Venezuela (CONIVE) es el órgano nacional representativo de los pueblos y organizaciones indígenas del país. Tiene carácter no gubernamental, sin fines de lucro, ni credo religioso o político. El CONIVE agrupa alrededor de 60 organizaciones indígenas y en su Consejo Interétnico hay representantes de los 32 Pueblos Indígenas.
El Consejo Político de Mallkus y Amawt'as del MOVIMIENTO INDIO TUPAQ KATARI (MITKA) viendo la pudredumbre de la "alta Sociedad" o la Casta política de Bolivia analiza y confirma los siguientes aspectos desintegradores del Estado boliviano. Patamarka (El Alto), 15 de julio de 2001.
Esta página foi pensada para todos os que acreditam numa sociedade mais
justa e solidária. A inauguração deste espaço coincide com o momento em
que a entidade comemora 25 anos em defesa da vida dos povos indígenas.
Representa a nossa resposta aos permanentes apelos de entidades e
pessoas solidárias à causa indígena em todo o mundo que sugeriram ao
Cimi disponibilizar sua experiência de trabalho e informações recolhidas ao
longo desta caminhada.
Biological diversity - or biodiversity - is the term given to the variety of life on Earth and the natural patterns it forms. The biodiversity we see today is the fruit of billions of years of evolution, shaped by natural processes and, increasingly, by the influence of humans. It forms the web of life of which we are an integral part and upon which we so fully depend.
La Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica - COICA - es una entidad que agrupa a más de cuatrocientos pueblos indígenas nucleados en las organizaciones de los nueve países que abarca la selva amazónica: Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guayana Francesa, Guyana, Perú, Surinam y Venezuela.
I. Declaration of Principles and Objectives, II. Agreements of the meetings of CONIC, III. Resolutions, IV. Letter to the UN. Presented in NY, March 7th, 1992
The Cauca Regional Indian Council (CRIC) has published the foIlowing statement on the military strife in southwestern Colombia in the latest issue of Unidad Indigena. September 8, 1986.
Music, Photos, Poems and stories from the Andes mountain region of South
America, which includes artists from Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina and Chile; in Spanish and the
Quechua indian language.
Declaration of Andean Indigenous organizations gathered together in Cusco from July 15 to 17, 2006, during the Founding Congress of the Andean Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organizations.
From Message of the Day of the Indian 19.4.1977, signed by representatives of the Xavante, Bororo, Pareci, Apiaká, Guarany, Kaingang, Kayabi, Terena & Kaiowá tribes.
Los Lideres Indigenas de la Amazonia Ecuatoriana van a encontrar con
oficiales governamentales una vez mas antes de tomar sus protestas a las
calles de Quito mas tarde este mes.
Los dirigentes de CONFENIAE piden que los amigos y partidarios de las
comunidades internacionales medioambientales toman un momento breve de su
tiempo y colaboran con nosotros y firman a nuestra petition electronica.
http://www.unii.net/confeniae/espanol/territorios/INTANGIBILIDAD.html
Nos encontramos con la Ministra Del Medio Ambiente
Yolanda Kakabadse, y otro oficiales altos de la administracion del
Presidente Jamil Mahuad De La Republica Del Ecuador y nos gustaria mostrar
que tenemos una base ancha de apoyo internacional en Declarar Nuestros
Territorios Sagrados intocable al Gobierno Insensato Pilla y queremos que
entiendan que:
Nuestras Patrias Hereditarias no son de venta y Demandamos Que se Garantiza
Su Proteccion Perpetua.
Declaración de Machu Picchu sobre la democracia, los derechos de los pueblos indígenas y la
lucha contra la pobreza, Machu Picchu, 28-29 de julio de 2001.
Declaración de las organizaciones indígenas de la región Andina, reunidas en el Cusco, del 15 al 17 de julio del 2006, durante el Congreso Fundacional de la Coordinadora Andina de Organizaciones Indígenas.
La organización mapuche Consejo de Todas las Tierras, ante la detención y
encarcelamiento de los dirigentes de nuestra organización comunicamos a la
opinión pública nacional e internacional, lo siguiente.
Intellectual property document submitted in an event organised by the Brazilian National Institute of Industrial
property (INPI), related to the Brazilian Ministry of Development, in December 2001.
[This is a PDF document. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader software to view the downloaded file.]
The following Is Declaration #141 of the 192 Global Forum In Rio de Janeiro. The Indians present at the Earth Summit were forced to express their views In this alternative Global Forum, as they were not allowed to completely participate in the official conference.
In response to the ongoing violence against and the recent massacre of the Ashaninka indigenous people, We the Ashaninka People feel it is necessary to have an Extraordinary Congress of Indigenous Communities of the Central Jungle
Region of Peru.
Temuco-Wallmapuche Declaration on the North American Free Trade Agreement, Indigenous Peoples and Their Rights
(Aukin Wallmapu Ngulam-Consejo de Todas las Tierras, Chile, December 1994)
Derechos works with human rights organizations in Latin America and the world to bring you accurate and timely information on the human rights situation in their countries, as well as opportunities to help. We also coordinate several human rights mailing lists, publish an internet human rights journal, and work on the preservation of memory and for justice for the disappeared
La historia de América Latina está plagada de opresiones y represiones, de gobiernos de facto, y de otros que aunque supuestamente democráticos se comportan como verdaderas dictaduras. Los derechos humanos han sido - y siguen siendo - frequentemente dejados de lado, como ideales bonitos pero molestos en épocas de conflictos internos.
Includes El Planeta Platica. Planeta.com is the internet's clearinghouse for practical ecotourism. As a travel resource center, we provide more than 10,000 pages of practical features and in-depth scholarly reports and host a variety of online forums and conferences.
This site is devoted to research and education about ecotourism, ethnic tourism, nature tourism, and
heritage tourism, along with other geographic interests of mine.
Ecuador Ethnogastronomic is one of a kind expedition introducing travelers to the native people of the Ecuadorian Andes. You will visit four indigenous communities, share in their ancient traditions, taste their traditional foods, delve into their knowledge of medicinal plants and meet the shamans. You will also explore the colonial cities of Quito and Cuenca and experience the spectacular natural beauty of the high Andes, all making positive contributions to the conservation of cultural heritage and providing more enjoyable experiences for tourists through more meaningful connections with local people, promoting cultural sensitivity and engendering respect between tourists and hosts.
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) and the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon
(CONFENIAE) met in an Encounter of Solidarity for Peace and Dignity in the city of Sucúa Ecuador, at the headquarters of the Interprovincial Federation of
Shuar-Achuar Centers (FICSHA), on February 21-22, 1995 to analyze recent conflicts between Ecuador and Peru.
Confederación de Pueblos de la
Nacionalidad Kichua del Ecuador
(ECUARUNARI) / Federation of Peoples
of the Quichua Nationality of Ecuador
/ Ecuador Kichua Llaktakunapak Jatun
Tantanakui.
Educaedu.com.ec is a finder of courses, university races, maestraas and postgraduates of Anthropologist, Sociologist, Ancestral Architecture, Intercultural Educator, etc. We counted on but of 1800 courses registered in all the Ecuador. Contactanos free of charge and solicits information on any course of your interest.
Nós, lideranças indígenas de 54 povos de todas as regiões do país, reunidas no Encontro Nacional dos Povos e Organizações Indígenas do Brasil com 250 participantes, no Centro de Formação Vicente Cañas, Luziânia/GO, nos dias 25 a 30 de abril de 2003, discutimos, a partir da realidade concreta de nossas comunidades, a política indigenista que queremos.
Enlace Continental de Mujeres Indígenas es un espacio de intercambio de experiencias y de indentificar prioridades comunes entre las mujeres indígenas de
continente.
EnviroLink is a non-profit organization...a grassroots online community that unites hundreds of
organizations and volunteers around the world with millions of people in over 130 countries.
La Escuela de Formación de Mujeres Lideres Dolores
Cacuango de Ecuarunari se forjan mujeres como dirigentes,
protagonistas y promotoras para sus comunidades, pueblos y
organizaciones.
Este sitio web busca dar aconocer las características de las diferentes nacionalidades indígenas que existen en Colombia, la realidad que los rodea y sus procesos de participación social y política en búsqueda de su reivindicación como pueblos.
La FCUNAE es una organización indígena de
segundo grado. Su objetivo principal es defender los territorios
indígenas y promover el desarrollo económico
autónomo de sus comunas filiales.
La Federación Ecuatoriana de Indígenas Evangélicos, FEINE, es una organización social, no gubernamental, encargada de armonizar el desarrollo integral de las organizaciones, comunidades y pueblos indígenas evangélicos del Ecuador, de manera equitativa y solidaria.
The Indigenous and Peasant Federation of Imbabura (FICI) is the Quichua organization of Imbabura, Ecuador. Its birth was the result of the historical heritage of thousands of years of cultural construction,
discriminatory state policies, and more than five hundred years of
resistance in the face of colonial and neo-colonial exploitation and oppression of our people.
La FENOCIN se define como una organización
campesino-indígena de carácter multi-étnico, constituida por
Uniones regionales y locales en todo el Ecuador.
The Forest Conservation Portal provides vast rainforest, forest
and biodiversity conservation news & information, including the
ability to fully search reviewed forest conservation information
on the Internet. The mission of Forests.org is to contribute to
ending deforestation, preserving old-growth forests, conserving all
forests, maintaining climatic systems and commencing the age of
ecological restoration.
La Fundación Amautica Fausto Reynaga es una institución cultural de caracter civil sin fines de lucro cuyo objetivo central es el mejoramiento de las condiciónes de vida del indio y el rescate, protección y difusion de la riqueza cultural de los pueblos nativos.
Ong Indigena conservacionista (A nongovernmental indigenous organization, without profit aims, that it has like motto: `the Indigenous Development and the Environmental Conservation.`. Dobbo Yala is the union of two indigenous words that mean earth, territory, atmosphere. Dobbo, in language Gnóbe and Yala, Kuna language.)
The Foundation Luz y Verdad de Avellaneda is a NGO, by more of 20 years, has been making between their main activities to be the "Eduardo Alfonso and Delia Marinaro Children's Home", with majority of handiccaped Children.
La fundacion Wanduk Yachay exists to uphold the rights of the Quichua Amazonica and Shuar, Achuar, Huao, and other groups in Pastaza and Morona Santiago Provinces of Ecuador, to their ancestral territories, to preserve those lands, and to provide environmental education to our youth and to our visitors that links the environment and spirituality.
The Galapagos Islands are a place where humans can watch, wonder and learn about the plants and animals that have inspired people since Darwin first stumbled upon the islands more than a century ago.
By donating golden objects to
shamans of the Kogi tribe from
Colombia, we want to show them our
respect for their work for Mother
Earth. With this campaign we also want
to call attention to their message:
‘They way you treat the earth will lead
to big disasters. Live in harmony with
the earth.’
The Guatemalan Historical Clarification Commission
completed its work and handed over its report on 25 February 1999 to the
Parties to the Peace Accords and to the Secretary General of
the United Nations.
La Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico ya terminó su trabajo tiene planificado entregar su informe a las Partes que firmaron los Acuerdos de Paz y al Secretario Generalk de Naciones Unidas. La presentación del informe tendrá lugar el 25 de febrero de 1999.
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Hands Around the World introduces Native American Indian cultures from Mexico and the Amazon basin. This site is an educational resource for these unique tribes and provides supplementary links.
Hands Around the World specializes in hand made art and gifts by Native Americans from Mexico and South America including Indian baskets, pottery, jewelry, sculpture, textiles, musical instruments, and religious crafts such as nativities, angels, and crucifixes.
The declaration states the conclusions of participants in the Floating Semi inar of the Paraguay River, organized by Sobrevivencia - Friends of the Earth Paraguay and the Coall ition Rios Vivos Paraguay-Parani-Plata, who descended the Paraguay River between 17-27 July, 1996 as part of a permanent dialogue with the populations of the La Plata Basin.
Bilingual site with ethnographic information on the Huarochiri region, its unique Quechua literary legacy, and its modern peoples
Los Andes, Peru, historia y cutura. Sitio bilingue que incluye datos etnograficos sobre la region huarochirana, su singular patrimonio literario en quechua, y sus pobladores modernos.
Website of the Brazilian Indigenous Institute for Intellectual Property - INBRAPI, creted after the Letter of Sao Luiz. The INBRAPI seeks - planning a timetable for participation in events and training courses, designed to enhance the relevant vocational training of indigenous peoples, establishing co-operation with universities, national and international government bodies, and also indigenous entities for the development of mechanisms for defence and protection of traditional knowledge, and
creating a permanent area to act as a reference point for communities in relation to their requests for the protection of the Cultural Heritage of Indigenous Communities.
This message is a request for your support in the denunciation of
the oppression and massacre of indigenous peoples in Qullasuyu-Bolivia (November 2001).
Website focuses on the nature preserving culture of the Lokono, Warau and Carib indigenous peoples of Guyana, South America. It aims to support these traditional techniques by giving the opportunity to purchase art by indigenous artist Claudette De Vieira Fleming.
by Andrew M. Crain, Esq. This paper examines the many recent legal
changes in Latin America regarding indigenous
communities' rights to traditional lands and natural
resources. It includes chapter case studies of
Argentina and Brasil.
This site offers 11,000 words
from 314 different Native American
languages alive and extinct. All
words are translated into Portuguese,
Spanish and English.
The "Technical Commission of Indigenous People," representing several Indian organizations from the Mapuches - Huilliches and Kawaskagar in the South, the Aymara in the North, to the Rapa Nui from Easter Island, compiled an 18 page proposal to all political parties running in the elections.
In response to murder of Ingrid Washinawatok, the Co-Chair of The
Indigenous Women's Network and Lahe'ena'e Gay and Terence Freitas, two other members of a
humanitarian delegation to the U'wa people of Colombia. [Issued March 8, 1999]
Inka Antares, born in the ANDES Mountains from Inca people, now exiled in New England
strongly play the Inca women's drum and the old Inca man's pipes.
we welcome all to unite strength
antares@snet.net
http://www.inka.freeservers.com
The Inkarri project is an intenational effort to contact all possible
Indigenous Peoples' organizations in the South to the Net.
Monitoring, international policies to development and international aid
and NGO´s presence in IP territories.
El Instituto Científico de Culturas Indígenas (ICCI) es una institución privada y sin fines de lucro. Actúa como un frente técnico-científico recogiendo el pensamiento y las experiencias de lucha del proceso de organización de los distintos pueblos indígenas.
Nossos Objetivos: Promover a defesa de bens e direitos sociais, coletivos e difusos, relativos ao meio ambiente e ao patrimônio intelectual dos povos indígenas.
The Integrated Conservation Networking System (ICONS) is an
information management system designed to meet the needs of
non-government, rural and indigenous organizations and individuals
working in developing countries.
The IRN web site is a global resource for all people who
share our concern for protecting and restoring the
world's rivers and ensuring respect for the rights of
riverine communities.
Empowering Indigenous people with apropriate technology to improve transportation health and economics - under the direction of Brothers Keeper Ministry
Intuitive visionary starseed and spirit art by Yamile Yemoonyah, created to inspire the transformation of Mother Earth back into the beautiful planet she is meant to be!
The Maquehue hospital is an hour-long bus ride from Temuco, Chile. A unique experiment in intercultural medicine is taking place. The hospital integrates the traditional medical knowledge of the indigenous Mapuche people with modern medicine.
The Council of Amaut'as and Coordinating Centre of the major Indian group, MINKA issued a trenchant condemnation which took the opportunity to vilify racism at both ends.- in southern Africa as well as Bolivia itself. June 1977.
suggested nation: Selknam, Kawesqar, Manekenk, Gününa küne, Aonikenk, Yamana
Online references and resources about languages and cultures of South Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego (South America).
Página interactiva de la Red de Lenguas Indígenas de la Amazonía, cuya coordinación
asume hoy Abya-Yala, como instrumento para reunir, conectar y difundir información.
Texto completo de todas las leyes venezolanas por cortesia del Dr. Fernando Pantin. (Plaintext of all the Venezuelan laws by courtesy of the Dr Fernando Pantin. )
"Las comunidades y los pueblos, no pueden ni deben olvidar la memoria de sus
viejos, al contrario, se requiere a menudo caminar sobre sus huellas."
Montañas del Sur occidente Colombiano
12 de Agosto del 2001
Uruguay
Página de divulgación ética y científica de noticias históricas relacionadas con los Charrúas y sus descendientes. Sus Valores, y nuestra identidad.
During the first week of June a significant gathering of the three major Mapuche organizations, Centros Culturales Mapuches, AD-Mapu, and Nehuen Mapu, resulted in a clear set of jointly defined goals. 1986.
Espacio para las organizaciones sociales, promoción de fundaciones, organizaciones, colectivos, redes e individuos mingasocial para un mundo mejor...para todos todo...
Space for the social organizations, promotion of foundations, organizations, groups, networks and individuals mingasocial for a better world... for all whole...
In 1980, the Wangurina Federation of Quichua Indians of the River Napo region of Peru also served unequivocal notice on the SIL to get out of their communities. In a letter to the authorities they said...
El MICC tiene su ámbito de influencia en las comunidades rurales de la provincia de Cotopaxi; provincia que se halla en la zona central del callejón interandino ecuatoriano.
We, the indigenous leaders of 54 peoples from all the regions of the country, united at the National Meeting of Indigenous Peoples and Organisations of Brazil, involving 250 participants, at the Vicente Canas Training Centre, Luziânia in Goias, between 25 and 30 April 2003, discussed the indigenist policy that we want, based on the concrete reality of the experiences of our communities.
The Colombia Mobilization is a national coalition of organizations and individuals working to transform U.S.
policy toward Colombia and the Andean region.
The following articles, taken from the NATIVE-L mailing list, concern the Human Genome Diversity
Project, which is being planned from an office at Stanford University in California.
In 1988, the Andean Band Nativo was founded in Otavalo-Ecuador. Nativo conveys the spiritual nature of Andean music, using the traditional Kena flute, panpipes. The first step of the band was to draw its inspiration from their Native music and culture and then to create their own style.
Nuestra misión es aportar a la discusión y conocimiento del Pueblo Mapuche visto desde su propia visión y con ello fortalecer el debate sobre su autonomía como pueblo.
On the basis of the information received from members of OMCT network, and in particular from LAW and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, the International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), condemns all violence by all actors in Israel, and the occupied territories, including territories under the Palestinian National Authority.
The defense and conservation of our cultural identity and the legalization of our homelands
OPIP, Organization of Indigenous Nationalities of Pastaza, Ecuador, was founded in 1.979 and is the largest organization of native peoples in the province of Pastaza. Approximately 120 communities are organized in the OPIP. The main objectives of the organization have been to legalize our rights to our homelands, watch over the preservation of our cultures and languages and foment the unity between the indigenous communities.
Otavalo is located two hours north of Quito
in Ecuador's Andean highlands. People
from all over the world come to see the famous
market, where an abundance of handicrafts can be
found. However, unlike other markets, the
handicrafts available at Otavalo are not
commercialized versions of authentic traditional
weaving styles that are found in many other
market places. Rather, Otavalenos pride
themselves as successful and intelligent business
people who have over the years continued to make
a livelihood off their craft skills.
Otavalos OnLine, la comunidad virtual de los Otavalos. Noticias, fotos, informacion, punto de vista de los Runas y todo lo que tiene que ver con Otavalo, Ecuador
La pagina de los Pueblos del Ecuador es un espacio para difundir la lucha de los y las ecuatorianas por la justicia social, la soberania nacional y la dignidad humana. (a space to spread the fight of the Ecuadorians by social justice, soberania national and the human dignity. )
The Instituto Socioambiental is a civil non-profit institution, established to propose integrated solutions to social and environmental issues. It's objective is to defend social wealth and rights related to the environment, the cultural legacy and human & peoples' rights. Website in Spanish, Portuguese, English.
PatagonBird is a New York-based company that features carvings, inlaid wood birds, masks, pottery and unique crafts made by the most talented indigenous artisans of Argentina. We are members of the Fair Trade Federation.
Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazonica (Coordinating Body of Indigenous Communities of the Amazon Basin; COICA)
(Mayo 17 de 1997)
People who defend Human Rights, and the governments of the world, should first of all understand that the Genocide taking place in the Central Sierra of Peru, is due neither to the present government, nor to the irrational members of the "Communist Party of Peru", called "Sendero Luminoso". Lima 25 February, 1985
The Peruvian Amazon Indian Institute (PAII) is dedicated to helping the indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon, beginning with the Shipibo/Conibo, in their transition from semi-nomadic, hunting and gathering groups to healthy twenty first century societies while still maintaining their cultural identity... and all this, in the face of staggering ecological, political, financial, and educational odds.
Los mas de cinco mil delegados de los pueblos indígenas y campesinos del continente Americano se dieron cita en Caracas, Venezuela para ratificar el 12 de Octubre 2003 como el día de la resistencia indígena y campesina, en el primer Encuentro Internacional de la Resistencia y Solidaridad de los Pueblos Indígenas y Campesinos para articular y fortalecer las diversidad organizativa del sector rural latinoamericano.
Educational, research and documentation program to promote adn facilitate intercultural bilingual education amongst indigenous nations in the Andean countries. A network of higher education institutions, indigenous origanizations and ministries of education concerned with the development of intercultural bilingual education programs.
Project Underground on the U'wa threat to commit collective suicide. An organization supporting the human rights of communities resisting mining and oil exploitation.
Con esta
pagina estamos creando un espacio de informaciones para facilitarla
comunicacion entre diferentes grupos y organizaciones que trabajan
en la esfera de Derechos Humanos, Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas,
como tambien en todo lo que se refiere a la Cultura sudamericana,
especialmente la cultura autoctona, musica y arte folklorico,
literatura, vida socialy medio ambiente.
This site provides a wide range of information on Quechua language, literature and culture, language programs, linguistics, and miscellany. It also has numerous links to other sites on indigenous languages of the Americas.
Information on Quechua language and culture with photos, videos, and diccionaries available in Franch, Spanish and English, research studies to provide telecommunication services to the Quechua speaking population of Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile.
Rainforest Health Project is a non-profit, international relief organization providing humanitarian medical assistance to the people of the Peruvian Amazon. We work hand-in-hand with traditional "shamans" or medicine men with the aim to provide basic medical aid, learn and help re-empower indigenous healers
Los antecedentes históricos son una parte importante para presentar lo
que fueron las rebeliones indígenas. El Imperio Inca habia comenzado 60 a
70 años antes de la llegada de los españoles. Tenían una organización que
sobrepasaba muchas veces la imaginación de algunos historiadores y
estudiosos. El Imperio privilegiaba su sistema religioso, siendo la base
de su cultura y sociedad. Muchos elementos que la conformaban existían en
función de sus creencias y mitos.
TINKU es una expresión Aymara-kechwa que significa un enfretamiento de poderes
antagónicos y complementarios; un diálogo de caracteres, de sentimientos, de fuerzas, de
experiencias y de concepciones. Un encuentro físico, ideológico, intelectual integral con la
esencia cultural de los pueblos originarios. Una verdadera expresión de interculturalidad
entre de los países andinos y los países nórdicos.
TINKU es una expresión Aymara-kechwa que significa ENCUENTRO INTEGRAL DENTRO DE LA COSMOVISIÓN ANDINA. Un enfretamiento de poderes antagónicos y complementarios; un diálogo de caracteres, de sentimientos, de fuerzas, de experiencias y de concepciones. Un encuentro físico, ideológico, intelectual integral con la esencia cultural de los pueblos originarios. Una verdadera expresión de interculturalidad entre de los países andinos y los países nórdicos. Si bien Tinku es una expresión andina esta misma concepción de fraternidad existe en las diferentes culturas de otros pueblos originarios y entre ellos en los nórdicos.
Meeting in La Paz, Bolivia in late 1973, organisations which signed the Manifesto of Tiawanaku developed many of its themes into Practical demands. Central to their concepts was a large-scale Programme for cultural and moral revival.
Members of various Indigenous groups met to discuss the ways in which Chile and Argentina had neglected their rights and created a list of resolutions when they met May 3-7, 1992.
RICANCIE is a network of ten Quichua communities in the Upper Napo valley
who have established a unique and genuine ecotourism programme based on
our traditional respect for our natural and cultural heritage, as an alternative way
of developing our communities for both present and future generations.
The South and Meso American Indian Rights Center (SAIIC), an Indigenous-run
organization in Oakland, California which strives to link the struggles of the Indian peoples of the
Americas, sponsors this list. This list is dedicated to the dissemination of news, information, and
analysis of Indigenous movements in Mexico, Central and South America from an Indigenous
perspective. It includes urgent action alerts and selected articles from SAIIC's quarterly journal Abya
Yala News.
Numbering probably around 22,000, the Saraguros are an ethnically distinctive native people whose "traditional" homeland for the last few hundred
years has been centered in the temperate mid-altitude (1800-2800 meters) Andean
highlands of southern Ecuador.
Indigenous communities in Colombia have frequently addressed the issue of self-determination in education. One of these, the Arhuaco formed an educational committee which presented its demands to missionaries in early 1975: demands the missionaries initially accepted, but a little later tried to reject. The Arhuaco stated their position in ten main points.
Seven years later, the first National Indigenous Congress held in Colombia and attended by more than 2,500 people representing 25 indigenous communities, asserted the right to "bilingual, bicultural education under the control of indigenous authorities." The commission on education of this new Organizacion Nacional Indigena de Colombia (ONIC) produced a measured report whose most radical proposal was probably that "school should be a means through which to strengthen indigenous struggles."
Beginning in the 1960's, Indian people throughout South America, and in the Americas as a whole began to organize. Within each Indian community that is traditionally organized to carry out daily activities and spiritual ceremonies, there was born a new type of organization led by the spiritual leaders. This organization became a political tool that reached from the community level to centers of national power. 1983.
The Second Conference of Indian Nations and Organizations of South America took place in Tiwanaku, Bolivia from March 6-13,1983. There were representatives of Indian organizations from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, and Venezuela.
The fifth meeting of the Continental Commission of Indigenous Nations (CONIC) took place from April 2-4, 1993, in the Ceremonial Center Ixacacal Guardia, in Quitana Roo, Mexico.
The purpose of the meeting was to continue preparations for the Second Continental Encounter, a follow-up to the First Continental Encounter of Indigenous Nations and Organizations which took place In Quito, Ecuador in July 1990.
SEJUP was founded in 1991 and specializes in preparing news and reports in English about
Brazilian human rights and social issues. Our interests in this area are many - amongst the issues we
cover are land questions, indigenous issues, environment, the churches, women's issues, violence,
children, grassroots movements.
The Summer Institute of Linguistics has operated in Brazil since 1959. The following statement on their activities was presented by the Union of India Nations (UNI) to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Peoples in Geneva, Switzeland, in 1985.
The South and Meso American Indian Rights Center (SAIIC) exists to ensure that the
struggles of Latin America's Indigenous peoples for self- determination and respect are
heard in the US and internationally, and to support Indigenous peoples' organizing.
This statement was prepared and approved by representatives of the Indigenous peoples of the world present at the planning meetings held in New York for two days prior to the UN's Inauguration of the Year of the Worlds Indigenous Peoples. December 9, 1992.
The following is from a statement by George Pierre, representing Caraiben and Lokono people of the Indigenous organization TUNA-SARAPA at the meeting of the Coordinadora of the Amazon Basin, June 1988.
Information about the Kogi made available by the Centre, which is the host of the Tairona Heritage Trust, a charitable foundation for the benefit of the indigenous people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. The Trust works to an agenda set by Gonawindua Tairona, the organsiation that represnts the "Mamas" (indigenous priests) of the Sierra.
El TIPI es un espacio para la coordinación y el contacto entre periodistas
indigenas del continente, tambien promueve Talleres de formación y
encuentros entre periodistas a nivel internacional.
Tambo Amana is a small ecotourism project in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest.
Operated completely by the indians themselves it represents an unique cultural and natural experience.
Terra Mistica is a Brazilian site about the culture and spirituality of South American indigenous people. Tierra Mística es una página dedicada aquellos que miran el sagrado camino de los antepasados nativos, sea él en cualquier lugar del mundo.
Terrantai Lodge is owned and was founded by a member of the Antai Aymara Indian people, who are based in the Atacama desert in the North of Chile. It is built with traditional native materials in the traditional manner using techniques developed thousands of years ago. It is built with the hope of putting people in touch with the local culture and native people, which offering modern comforts which tourists require.
At the Second Continental Encounter of Indigenous Peoples, delegates of the Coordinating Commission of Indigenous Nations and Organizations of the Continent (CONIC) called the world's attention to "cultures in danger." More than 300 representatives of Indigenous Nations and Organizations from throughout the Western Hemisphere gathered at the Otomi Ceremonial Center in the mountains outside Mexico City during the second week of October, 1993.
The Chol Chol Foundation, located in the South of Chile, commercialized traditional indigenous handwoven textiles with the goal of creating self-sustainable improvements in the lives of the rural, indigenous Mapuche people.
We are proud to be able
to use this medium to tell you about our culture, our
ecotourism programs, our conservation projects, and
what's new in our world. As the original inhabitants of
Ecuador's northeastern rain forests, we can offer you an
insider's view of this incredibly complex environment we
call home.
The Creative Connections Project links US/world K-12 classrooms with partner classes from the Amazon Rain Forest, Africa, the Galapagos Islands, the Arctic and China through E-mail, the Internet, art exchanges, music exchanges and Study Partnerships. Detailed information and a registration form are available online at www.ccproject.org.
Creative Connections Project also offers free online resources for teachers who may take students on language arts based adventures to the Amazon rain forest, Africa, China, the Galapagos Islands and the Arctic; meet the indigenous children there, take online field trips to schools and towns around the world; and see artwork by students from around the world.
The complete text of the book The Indian Awakening in Latin America, edited by Yves Materne,
which presents a collection of statements that express and illuminate Indian claims.
1989-All of the Amazonian countries have made preposterous claims that the great empty Amazon jungle can finance national development, it can provide an alternative for overcoming historical structural problems, and it can become the countries' breadbasket. These flippant and irresponsible claims, which have been the basis for development policies for over three decades, are of great concern for us.
Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazonica (Coordinating Body of Indigenous Communities of the Amazon Basin; COICA) (May 9-11, 1990)
In reconfirming a spirit of unity, the following Mapuche organizations are calling upon other Indigenous peoples of Chile to prepare one proposal for the future constitution and for democracy in Chile (April 1988).
The U'wa ("the Thinking People") fight California-based Occidental Petroleum, Shell International,
and the Colombian Government for the internationally recognized rights of Indigenous peoples.
The Tiwanaku Manifesto, issued in La Paz, Bolivia, in 1973, is a founding statement of Katarismo and reflects a synthesis of protest currents that made up that ideology.
Tribes is a fair trade tour operator which runs holidays working closely with and benefiting local communities. In Peru with the Quechua community (horse-supported treks to Machu Picchu), we promote the lodge of the Machiguenga people in Manu, and others.
Promotes sustainable ecotourism
programmes throughout Ecuador,
including indigenous peoples' community
managed enterprises.
Also includes a page on environmental and
cultural defense issues.
Ten indigenous organizations of the Rio Negro participated in the assembly, as well as Manoel Moura, director of Coordinating Group of Indigenous People of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB), and Ailton Krenak, of the national office of the Union of Indigenous Nations (UNI). The local and national indigenous leaders at the meeting signed a letter of agreement, with significant implications for the future of the indigenous movement in Brazil. A translation of the document follows. 1991.
The Union of Peasant and Indigenous Organizations of
Cotacachi (UNORCAC) is a non-profit, class-based, second-level
organization constituted by forty-one communities, and various
peasant, indigenous, and mestizo base organizations in the
Andean zone of Cotacachi Canton, Imbabura Province, Ecuador.
La Universidad Amawtay Wasi "Casa de la Sabiduría" es una Institución de educación superior autosostenible, que recresa el conocimiento ancestral, estableciendo una relación armónica entre la Pachamama (Tierra) y el Runa (Ser humano), que se sustenta en el Alli Kawsay (Buen vivir).
Untamed Path is a tour operator that works with culturally and ecologically sustainable projects and guides in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru. Our goal is to offer alternatives to traditional tourism that value local culture and tradition, working with and for indigenous people's economies and natural environment.
Aunque el estudio de la música Afroamericana comenzara a principios de siglo en el norte del continente, el interés por la Afro-Latinoamericana es más reciente. Hoy, la música negra venezolana goza de un nuevo periodo de interés; se funde con otras influencias é instrumentos, produciendo músicas mestizas dentro y fuera de Venezuela.
Colombia's major Indian Organisation, CRIC, was founded in the early 1970s. The following - extracted from their first Bulletin published in 1973 - remains the principal programme around which they have organised, with growing strength, for land rights over the last twelve years.
Colombia's major Indian Organisation, CRIC, was founded in the early 1970s. The following - extracted from their first Bulletin published in 1973 - remains the principal programme around which they have organised, with growing strength, for land rights over the last twelve years.
Meet the oldest communities in Argentina, through their own handmade art. Culture and products (wood carvings, tapestry, pottery, basketry, textiles and molding).
suggested nation: Chibcha-Abya Yala
En espanol...ATENCION..Colombianos...la historia de Mirthayu. Haz Click en Link "Mirthayu" informacion sobre Fomagata, La Bachue, y La Chia.
(Colombia) Last April 9th, Alfonso Pena Chepe, Indian representative of the Armed Movement "Manuel Quintin Lame," took an oath before the plenary session of the National Constitutional Assembly. In this way, he became the 74th member of this governmental body.
Amazoniart.com specializes in authentic Amazon Indian art and artifacts, including masks, weapons, jewelry, wood sculptures, baskets, pottery, musical instruments and rare South American Indigenous collectibles. All our products are guaranteed, unconditionally, as we continue to find and present the finest examples of tribal art from the Amazon rain forest. In two special galleries of our website we are also offering regional non-Indian handcrafts from Northern Brazil and biojewels featuring a combination of Brazilian gemstones, silver, gold, and natural materials such as seeds, coconut, vegetal fibers.
The web site of the Yasuni National Park Expedition, Ecuador 1999. This research group from Royal Holloway, University of London, worked with the Huaorani of the Rio Shiripuno in the Ecuadorian Amazon. We were working with them to study issues surrounding possible increases in tourism in their communities, as well as documenting the changing aspects of their culture. Site is in English and Spanish
