ICT - global http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global RSS Feed for ICT - Global en-us Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT Indigenous leader confronts Chevron http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/87465362.html Emergildo Criollo traveled to California recently from his indigenous village in Ecuador to the home of Chevron’s new CEO John Watson and then to a meeting with state lawmakers, demanding that the oil giant Chevron “… take responsibility for their actions and clean up our rivers and forests – our homes.” ‘Hate crime’ ad prompts police, human rights investigation http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/87463002.html WINNIPEG, Manitoba – An ad on a buy-and-sell Web site that characterized Native boys as animals and offered to ethnically cleanse them from the city has sparked a blaze of outrage and prompted a First Nations leader to initiate an investigation by city police and Canada’s Human Rights Commission on a hate crime allegation. Dramatic decline of male births in indigenous communities tied to industrial pollution http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/87141237.html A strange reality exists in at least one indigenous community – babies that should be born boys are instead, born girls. Indigenous plan of action for climate change summit http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/85488742.html To “defeat the resistance of the contaminating countries” was the objective of indigenous leaders from 13 Latin American countries who prepared a plan of action recently for the upcoming Climate Change Summit in Mexico. Pesticide exposure deprives Yaqui girls of breastfeeding – ever http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/85049497.html SONORA VALLEY, Mexico – The problems began ominously with the Yaqui pueblo peoples who accepted pesticide practices in the 1950s so-called Green Revolution. Challenging the Paradigm coincides with longhouse opening http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/84469727.html TERRACE, British Columbia – Challenging the Paradigm, Northwest Community College’s third annual conference on decolonizing post-secondary education, will take place this year from May 5 – 8 at its Terrace Campus. St. Eugene one of BC’s most culturally authentic aboriginal attractions http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/83891132.html VANCOUVER, British Columbia – The St. Eugene Golf Resort & Casino is one of five tourism businesses in British Columbia to receive the “Authentic Aboriginal” title, a new designation awarded by the Aboriginal Tourism Association of British Columbia. The authenticity program recognizes the most culturally authentic, accurate and respectful representations of First Nations peoples and cultures in British Columbia’s tourism industry. Tribute pole bound for China unveiled http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/83343717.html TERRACE, British Columbia – The Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art at Northwest Community College unveiled a grizzly and eagle totem pole to elders, dignitaries and guests. At the Jan. 27 totem pole blessing ceremony, elders laid their hands on the pole as Sam Lockerby and Bossy Bolton blessed the historic pole. The finished piece is destined for the Sichuan province of China and, in particular, to the indigenous Qiang people who were severely impacted by an earthquake in May 2008. Chief grandma tells it how it is http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/27273629.html GRANTS PASS, Ore. – When Agnes Baker Pilgrim, who turns 84 in September, wakes up each day, she said she’s usually grinning. Letter to all political parties http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/28301924.html Tomorrow, Sept. 13, 2008, we celebrate the one-year anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Declaration was adopted by the UN General Assembly on September 13, 2007 after more than two decades of negotiation and debate.