Results

      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 essential nature of an indigenous participation in the formulation of recognised international human rights".

      An expression of Canadian Indigenous solidarity with the Maya people of Guatemala, this article deals with military repression and, as an example of it, recounts the story of an German-American agronomist who was killed in Guatemala in 1980.

      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 defense presented by Brazilian government officials (that they "are treated humanely, altruistically, and in a Christian manner").

      Focusing on the Waorani (Huaorani) people and encroachment on their territories in Ecuador, this article discusses the violation of Indigenous rights as a consequence of destructive colonial practices arising from oil and mineral extraction.

      An exposé on the damaging effects of oil extraction on the Huaorani (Waorani) peoples in Ecuador, including water contamination, animal extermination, and cancer. Although the Ecuadorian government claims that oil extraction benefits the country and its people, it is the Indigenous people that pay the costs.

      The Yanomami peoples' territory and survival is the focus of this article. It reveals that the Brazilian government has not take the necessary steps to give the 9.4 million hectares of Yanomami territory legal protection.