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May 10, 2011

Navajo Medicine Man Runs Global Business without Internet

Filed under: Business,Global,Health & Wellness,Navajo Nation,News Alerts — ICTMN Staff @ 4:07 pm

The Farmington Daily Times’ third article in its five-part series highlights the advantage of global Internet-based sales. But some people refuse to adapt to modern technology, preferring a more traditional and respectful (to some people’s perceptions) way of marketing services….

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April 22, 2011

Maka Indian chief Without a Male Heir

Filed under: Global,News Alerts — ICTMN Staff @ 6:08 pm

On April 19, indigenous people throughout Brazil, Paraguay and Venezuela, gathered to celebrate American Indigenous International Day. Tribes held ceremonies with dancing, others set up stations in nearby tourist locations to educate travelers about indigenous people and their beliefs. For…

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April 19, 2011

Peru Awajun Tribe Retains Alleged Miners

Filed under: Global,News Alerts — Renzo Pipoli @ 7:21 pm

Members of the Awajun Tribe, living in the northern Peruvian border with Ecuador were retaining as of Tuesday morning as many as eight people still unidentified who were caught camping and using what looked like gold miner tools in an…

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April 16, 2011

Uncontacted Tribes to be Featured on Discovery’s Human Planet

Filed under: Global,News Alerts — ICTMN Staff @ 6:00 pm

According to a Survival International press release, the endangered uncontacted tribes in the Brazilian Amazon, recently reported on by Indian Country Today Media Network will be featured on the Discovery Channel on Sunday, April 17 (9 p.m. ET and PT)….

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Malaria Outbreak Could be Fatal to Isolated People

Filed under: Global,Health & Wellness — Rick Kearns @ 1:00 pm

Indigenous advocates are warning that isolated peoples living near part of the Madeira dam complex are in grave danger of contracting malaria due to an outbreak in the region. Malaria and other diseases can be fatal to the isolated people…

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April 15, 2011

More Puerto Ricans Identify Themselves as Indian, According to Latest Census

Filed under: American Indian,Genealogy,Global,News Alerts — Rick Kearns @ 6:00 pm

Close to 20,000 people in Puerto Rico identified themselves as ‚ÄúAmerican Indian‚Äù in the 2010 U.S. Census report, a 49 percent increase in the number of island Puerto Ricans to do so. In 2000, the number was 13,336 and there…

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April 14, 2011

Bolivia Moves to Give Mother Earth Same Rights as Humans

Filed under: Aboriginal,Canada,Environment,First Nations,Global,News Alerts — ICTMN Staff @ 4:32 pm

For American Indians, First Nations, indigenous and aboriginal communities throughout the world the relationship with Mother Earth has always been strong. A connection with all living things is shared throughout Native tradition and that can be seen in the recent…

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April 13, 2011

Indigenous Students a Priority in Australia

Filed under: Education,Global,News Alerts — ICTMN Staff @ 1:00 pm

Education awareness for indigenous Australians has been increased recently as some institutions have begun creating leadership posts in hopes of increasing the numbers of indigenous students and academics. In a recently article by The New York Times it was reported…

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April 12, 2011

Indigenous Leaders Meet About Health Care

Filed under: Global,Health & Wellness,News Alerts — ICTMN Staff @ 1:00 pm

Health care for indigenous in Brazil can be related in ways like health care services in the United States for American Indians. The quality is lacking. On April 6 representatives of Pankararu (Pernambuco) and Guajajara (Maranh√£o) visited the Special Secretariat…

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April 11, 2011

Peru Confrontations Leave Three Dead, Police Averts Massacre

Filed under: Global,News Alerts,Politics — Renzo Pipoli @ 6:00 pm

Confrontations between a group of some 1,200 police who had been deployed to try to contain growing popular unrest and some 4,000 farmers who opposed a copper mine project left three dead and dozens injured in south Peru in early…

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