ICT - global http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global RSS Feed for ICT - Global en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT Venezuelan ambassador in Alaska to promote cultural, commercial exchange http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/67567582.html WASHINGTON – When Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled the U.S. ambassador last fall for allegedly inciting violence in the streets of Bolivia, a series of tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions occurred, including the Bush administration’s expulsion of Venezuela’s ambassador to Washington. Economist de Soto angers Peru Natives, experts with documentary http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/69372747.html Hernando de Soto, a renowned Peruvian economist, has upset Natives as well as the foremost local experts on Peruvian Natives and Amazon issues with a documentary critics see as another attempt to strip Peruvian Natives of their lands so they can be transferred to oil and lumber companies. Native community reclaims history of Alutiiq masks http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/65815892.html JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – For more than 100 years, more than 70 Alutiiq ceremonial masks were housed in a museum in France, honored as art yet completely cut off from their original cultural context. Akwesasne Mohawk retrieve Olympic Flame from Greece http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/67576162.html AKWESASNE, Ontario – Aronhiaies Herne, a 23-year-old teacher and cultural program coordinator from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne, has been selected as one of 11 aboriginal youths that will have the job of a lifetime over the next few months – running with the Olympic Flame as its guide and protector to ensure it keeps burning bright on its cross-Canada journey. First Nations Studies course ends on a high note http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/65806092.html PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia – With the help of Coast Tsimshian elders and Order of Canada recipient and ethnobotanist Dr. Nancy Turner, students enrolled in an ethnobotany course put their new knowledge into practice in a moving cultural exhibit in August. Indigenous Hondurans face persecution and great risk after coup http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/65766957.html The coup government of Honduras is severely repressing opposition, curtailing constitutional rights, allowing excessive police violence which could be linked to several deaths, beatings and disappearances. The Breaking Wind blows into a prime time spot http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/65814887.html CALEDONIA, Ontario – The Breaking Wind, an unsigned teen band from Caledonia, Ontario, Canada breezed right into prime time when ESPN and ABC played a portion of their song “Dear Mr. Murphy” for an on-air teaser, prior to the kick off of Saturday Night Football, Michigan vs. Iowa Oct. 10. Truth Commission on Amazon massacre established http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/63850757.html Peru’s Amazonian indigenous alliance AIDESEP hailed the government’s formation of an investigative commission on the June 5 massacre at Bagua as “an important step” towards reconciliation in the wake of June’s deadly unrest in the lowland rainforest. Métis history may help indigenous people in Japan http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/63874022.html REGINA, Saskatchewan – Dr. Shunwa Honda of the Open University of Japan is on a mission to help win government legal recognition of indigenous status for the Ainu people. Bard of the Mushkegowuk takes top literary prize http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/global/36628554.html TORONTO – It’s not often that a literary prize would be of much interest to the residents of remote communities in the swamplands north of the 51st parallel.