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Indian Law

International Indigenous Issues

- Welcome to the Aboriginal Canada Portal, your single window to Canadian Aboriginal on-line resources, contacts, information, and government programs and services. The portal offers ease of access and navigation to listings of Aboriginal associations, businesses, organizations, bands, communities, groups, news and peoples.

- Aboriginal Connections is a searchable annotated web directory related to indigenous peoples worldwide.

- From fishing rights to the creation of a new territory, CBC News has examined a number of issues and stories related to aboriginals in Canada.

- Independent, nonprofit organization for research and education, dedicated to understanding and appreciation of the knowledge of indigenous peoples and the social and economic issues indigenous nations face. Contains World Council of Indigenous Peoples resolutions and papers.

- The Native Title Infobase includes selected material commencing from 1839 to the present day and covers all aspects of native title. It gives reference to Australian material including journal articles, book chapters, books, conference papers, reports and press clippings. It also includes relevant material from other jurisdictions such as New Zealand, United States, Canada, Africa and Asia.

- Official site of the Canadian equivalent of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.

- The Indigenous Environmental Network is an alliance of grassroots indigenous peoples whose mission is to protect the sacredness of Mother Earth from contamination and exploitation by strengthening, maintaining, and respecting the traditional teachings and the natural laws.

- Online institute featuring articles and links to issues affecting indigenous peoples internationally, particularly in Australia and New Zealand.

- An excellent collection of documents that come from the work of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Global Forum of Indigenous Peoples, and the Working Group on Indigenous Populations.

- IWGIA is an independent international membership organization staffed by specialists and advisers on indigenous affairs. IWGIA's aims and activities include support for indigenous peoples' struggle for human rights, self-determination, right to territory, control of land and resources, cultural integrity, and the right to development.

- The Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) is affiliated with the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at the University of Texas at Austin. LANIC has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and UT Austin's College of Liberal Arts. LANIC is a key component of the International Information Systems, also based at UT Austin. LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America.

- Consists of information about the work of the United Nations concering indigenous peoples. Also contains links to UN documents on indigenous peoples.

- This is a revision of a document prepared for presentation at the 1992 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries. It may be reproduced for non-profit educational use if this notice appears on the reproduction.

- Survival International is a worldwide organization supporting tribal peoples. It stands for their right to decide their own future and helps them protect their lives, lands, and human rights. This web site is available in a number of languages (Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, German, Dutch, etc.).

- The International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People, being celebrated between 1995-2004, has brought with it advances such as the establishment of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The theme for the Decade is ‘indigenous people partnership in action’. The main objective is the strengthening of international cooperation for the solution of problems faced by indigenous people in such areas as human rights, the environment, education and health. The Special Rapporteur on the situation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people may also examine these issues. The UN, its partners and indigenous peoples have developed a program of work that sets standards in regards to indigenous peoples and their rights. An equally important process has been to review developments regularly. The Working Group on Indigenous Populations (WGIP) has attended to both these activities since 1982. Includes a link to the draft declaration on "The Rights of Indigenous Peoples.”

- Provides links to international human rights documents and materials--many conerning indigenous rights--in English, Russian, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Japanese.

- The word Wasáse is the Kanienkeha (Mohawk) word for the ancient war dance ceremony of unity, strength, and commitment to action. Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom seeks to capture and convey a new "warrior" spirit: an attitude, a way of being in the world. It conveys through dialogue and reflection the outline of a new movement for change among Indigenous peoples that is rooted in traditional philosophies and values, but which draws from many different social and political strategies to challenge the colonial, or Settler society's dominance of Indigenous lives and land, and to altering the balance of political and economic power to re-create social and physical space for Indigenous freedom.

- This excellent and thorough web site is a collaborative effort of the National Native Title Tribunal and Federal Court of Australia. It contains links to Legislation, Court Decisions, Organizations and Journal Articles.