Canada: Tsilhqot’in Declare Tribal Park surrounding Sacred Fish Lake
Reposted from Cultural Survival Photo credit: Cultural Survival On October 12th, Tsilhqot’in People gathered at Fish Lake in British Colombia to inaugurate a totem pole at a new conservation area...
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In October 2014, Survival International (SI) reported that “Baka men and women in Cameroon are regularly victims of violence and intimidation by wildlife officers and the soldiers that accompany...
View ArticleA Too Common Occurrence: Maasai Land Theft by Safari Company in Northern...
Reposted from the Cultural Survival Quarterly, 38-4 Indigenous Rights Protect Us All (December 2014) Cattle in disputed land [photo credit: Cultural Survival] The expansive landscapes and large...
View ArticleFinal Land Claim Agreements Supersede Territorial Legislation in Yukon
In December 2014, a Yukon court rejected the Yukon government’s land use plan for the Peel Watershed, on the grounds that it does not respect final land claim agreements with First Nations. The lawsuit...
View ArticleIndigenous Knowledge: The key to Biodiversity Conservation
Reposted from Cultural Survival Quarterly issue 39-1 Upholding Indigenous Rights Is Good Business (March 2015) Image: Joseph Goko Mutangah. Photo Courtesy of UNPFII Joseph Goko Mutangah initially...
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