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Sunday, 15 November 2009 15:47
Ngati Manawa Deed Of Settlement Ratification
On 22 October 2009, Ngati Manawa and the Crown initialed a Deed of Settlement that will settle all of Ngati Manawa’s historical Treaty claims.
The Deed of Settlement is subject to ratification by Ngati Manawa iwi members through a postal ballot closing at 12:00pm on 4th December 2009. Ngati Manawa will also have an opportunity to ratify Te R?nanga o Ngati Manawa as the entity to receive and manage the redress.
The Photograph And The Malanggan: Rethinking Images On Malakula, Vanuatu
Haidy Geismar, 2009
From the recent efflorescence of anthropological engagements with photography we are by now aware that photography is an embodied practice and that photographs are complex materialisations of the subjective and experiential as well as the objective and ...
Sickening Bodies: How Racism And Essentialism Feature In Aboriginal Women's Discourse About Health
Dundi Mitchell, 2009
In the last decade there has been much interest in the concepts of 'racism' and 'essentialism' and the ways in which these notions have been appropriated by Aboriginal people to demarcate a specifically Aboriginal ...
Syncretism Or Sychronicity? Remapping The Yolngu Feel Of Place
Fiona Magowan, 2009
For Christian Yolngu in Arnhem Land visions shape the imagined, embodied and affective experiences of places of danger, illness, healing and general wellbeing. In this paper, I argue that Yolngu have consistently constructed their Christian faith through visions ...
Mallek Autonomous Communities Denounce Misleading Work Of A Journalist With Radio Bio Bio
The Parliament of the autonomous regions of Mallek, to the research distorted by journalists of Radio Biobio informs the national and international public opinion as follows:
Background
Biobío Radio has partnered with CNN to broadcast information, in ...
Amazon: Masato Or Oil: Video
Translated from Spanish, Original Below
The Masato is the drink that produce Amazonian Indians with boiled cassava. The drink all ethnicities and all hours, meetings, celebrations and visitors to complete. The Masato is the drink that gives identity to the indigenous culture. Oil is ...
South Asia Sub-Regional Training Seminar On Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Held In Bangladesh: Report
On 11-13 November 2009 ‘South Asia Sub-regional Training Seminar on Indigenous Peoples' Rights: Promotion and Implementation of ILO Convention 169 and UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ at the BCDM (BRAC Centre for Development and ...
$756 Million Distributed To Individual Indian And Tribal Trust Accounts In FY 2009
$9.5 Billion Disbursed Since 1996
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today released the annual independent audit of Indian trust fund financial statements. In fiscal year 2009, about $756 million was disbursed to Indian beneficiaries including ...
The Government Of Canada Partners With The Athabasca Tribal Council To Support Aboriginal Youth
Funding for the Community Development Internship Project improves skills training and creates jobs.
Aboriginal youth in the Wood Buffalo region will have access to skills training thanks to Government of Canada funding for the Community Development ...
Sleep, Performance And Behaviour In Australian Indigenous And Non-Indigenous Children: An Exploratory Comparison
Sarah Blunden, and Ronald D Chervin, 2009
Aims: Sleep problems in Australian children are common and consequential but have not been investigated in Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander (indigenous) children. This study compares sleep in ...
