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Shutting down Australia's Aboriginal areas — Dec 7, 2014

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New funding laws threaten the existence of remote indigenous communities already facing profound social issues.

Perth, Australia - The West Australian state government may bulldoze 150 remote indigenous communities that it says are too expensive to keep open under a new funding arrangement between federal and state authorities.

Canberra has offered each state a one-time, lump-sum payment to take over the responsibility of financing remote Aboriginal communities indefinitely.

In an ultimatum, Western Australia was offered $90m, enough to fund remote communities through to 2017.

But as of June 30, 2015, past federal funding agreements will end, effectively giving Western Australia authorities about seven months before they must start working out how to fund remote communities in the future - and which ones will have to close.

Hope for the Hadza: Protecting one of the world's last hunter-gatherers — Nov 4, 2014

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In Northern Tanzania, the Hadza have lived sustainably off of the bounty of their homeland, roaming as they needed to find game, tubers and wild berries, for at least 50,000 years. But this unique indigenous group, known for shunning material possessions and social hierarchy, is at great risk of losing the elements that have allowed them to thrive for so long. Vast changes to the lands and wildlife populations that the Hadza need to survive threaten to extinguish their unique way of life and vibrant culture. These threats, mainly agriculture, disrupt their landscape and the natural resources that they depend on for survival.

Modernization comes at a price paid by indigenous people in Bolivia — Sep 23, 2014

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Total’s arrival has sown division among the Guarani and left many with a creeping sense of regret. At first the company’s cash payments, infrastructure projects and job offers seemed like a good alternative to the old way of life under a land-owning patrón. Now they see a new, more powerful master moving in — this one with the backing of the government.

Aikewara offered reparations for mistreatment at hands of Brazil armed forces — Oct 1, 2014

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September 19, 2014 the Aikewara, a Tupi-Guarani group also known as "the Suri do Para," became the first indigenous people of Brazil to receive an official government apology and promise of reparations. Brazilian Justice Department acknowledged the violence and suffering at the hand of military forces battling communist Araguia guerillas. The article is an op-ed by Aikewara representatives demanding full restituion of their indigenous homeland 'Tuwa Apekuokawera. "Only when our territory has been returned to us and protected will we be able to go back to living in peace."

Barkindji people of Australia are stuck on the fringes of 21st Century civilization — Sept 30, 2014

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Like all indigenous people in Australia, they face the challenge of healing from past traumas, adapting to external influences on their largely remote communities and living in the shadows cast by present-day institutionalized racism.

11 companies ordered to halt gold-mining, return land to natives — Sep 26, 2014

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The ruling, the first of its kind in Colombia, restores the territory in Choco department to the 7,270-person Embera Katio tribe, which inhabited the area before it was forced out by mining activities and violent illegal armed groups. Choco, located on the Pacific coast, is strategically valuable to drug traffickers, Marxist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitary groups. The Embera Katio were victims of killings and forcible recruitment when they lived there. “The natives who inhabited the reserve ... were forcibly displaced to large urban centers,” reads the ruling.

High tech empowers indigenous population in northeast India — Sept 26, 2014

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An Android app designed to give voice to tribes at the heart of India's Maoist insurgency was launched September 20 as part of a campaign by activists to end the conflict through the combination of oral tradition and new technology.

The Mayans of Mexico: Alive and Well After 3,814 Years — Sept 8, 2014

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"When the Spanish came, the Mayans readily accepted Catholicism because it looked just like their religion," Gaby said. "They had the Mayan cross, and many of the Catholic stories were similar to their own. So ‘converting’ wasn’t a big issue. They adopted the saints, but their religion has stayed the same."

Kenyan girls taken to remote regions to undergo FGM in secret — July 24, 2014

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Perpetrators of female genital mutilation becoming more difficult to catch as hospitals and clinics carry out procedure covertly

13,000 year old skeleton reveals link between Asia and modern Native Americans — May 15, 2014

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The ancient remains of a teenage girl found in an underwater Mexican cave have established a definitive link between the earliest Americans and modern Native Americans.

Brazil begins long-awaited operation to save Earth’s most threatened tribe - Jan 6, 2014

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After months of campaigning by Survival International, Brazil’s government has launched a major ground operation to evict illegal invaders from the land of the Awá, Earth’s most threatened tribe.
Soldiers, field workers from Brazil’s indigenous affairs department FUNAI, Environment Ministry special agents and police officers are being dispatched to notify and remove the illegal settlers, ranchers and loggers – many of whom are heavily armed – from the Awá indigenous territory in the North-Eastern Brazilian Amazon.
The operation comes at a crucial time as loggers are closing in on the tribe and more than 30% of the forest has already been destroyed.

At least 4,000 aboriginal children died in residential schools, commission finds - January 2, 2014

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Kimberly Murray, executive director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Parliament Hill. The commission has confirmed the deaths of at least 4,000 aboriginal children died in residential schools. Over many decades — from the 1870s to 1996 — 150,000 aboriginal children were taken from their families and sent by the federal government to church-run schools, where many faced physical and sexual abuse.

Paris judge rejects attempt to halt auction of Hopi sacred objects — Apr 12, 2013

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A Paris judge today threw out a bid by Survival International to block a controversial auction of sacred objects of Arizona’s Hopi tribe. The judge ruled that ‘in spite of their sacredness to the Hopi these masks are not a representation of any creature, alive or dead.’

The Hopi tribe is ‘vehemently opposed’ to the auction of the Katsinam (“friends”), which are of spiritual significance to the tribe, and had requested that the objects be returned to them immediately.