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ISSUE RELATED ORGANIZATIONS

Amanaka’a:
Organization that works directly with Amazon leaders in support of their projects for survival, human rights environment, and health.

Center for World Indigenous Studies:
An independent, non-profit research and education organization dedicated to wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of indigenous peoples and the social, economic and political realities of indigenous nations.

Cultural Survival:
Nonprofit organization founded in 1972 to defend human rights and the cultural autonomy of indigenous peoples and oppressed ethnic minorities.

Institute for the Advancement of Hawaiian Affairs:
Hawaiian sovereignty and self-determination institute concerned with indigenous rights, human rights, decolonization, and cultural development.

League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations:
Alliance to unite and politically empower peoples of the western hemisphere.

Native Web:
Resources for indigenous cultures around the world.

Rights of Indigenous Peoples:
Tribal Law Indigenous Intellectual Property:

Indigenous rights and the use of cultural heritage on the Internet.


BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PUBLICATION LINKS:

Center for International Earth Science Information Network Resources:
Columbia University’s Center for International Earth Science Network. Links to different world data and statistics.

Tainter, Joseph A., The Collapse of Complex Societies. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge: 1990. (pp. 250)

Fourth World Eye:
Online newsletter from Center for World Indigenous Studies.

General UN Documents on Indigenous Rights:
Diana.law.yale.edu/diana/db/3298-1.html

Pepole. Maya (Compiler). Atlas: The Struggle to Preserve Maya Land in Southern BelizeToledo Maya Cultural Council North Atlantic Books: Berkeley, CA: 1997. (pp. 154)

Dames, Michael. Mythic Ireland. Thames and Hundson, Ltd: London: 1992. (pp. 372)

Tedlock, Dennis (Translator). Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life. Touchstone Book, Simon & Schuster, Inc.: New York: 1985. (pp. 380)

Jones, Shirley Ann (Editor). Simply Living: The Spirit of the Indigenous People. New World Library: 1999 (pp. 280)
Collection of quotes given by indigenous peoples from Australia, Scandinavia, Chile, Malaysia, Palestine, Uzbekistan, Japan, North America, and more.

Wautischer, Helmut (Editor). Tribal Epistemologies: Essays in the Philosophy of Anthropology (Avebury Series in Philosophy), Avebury Press: 1998.


 




Indigenous peoples’ rights is a part of human rights concerned with fostering peace among the different cultures and people of the world. In 1994 in Geneva, Switzerland, the International Covenant on the Rights of Indigenous Nations was drafted marking the first modern international law dealing with indigenous rights.