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Standing Rock and the long struggle for Indigenous freedom
2016-09-20 12:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: While the confrontation at Standing Rock has galvanized Indians and non-native supporters from across the continent, writes Stanley L. Cohen, it's but a symptom of a much deeper crises facing several million Indians holding on to endangered traditions and cultures that predate 'our' arrival by several thousand years. We may call Indian people sovereign. But it's all a grand, perverse lie. I'm not a North American Indian. But I was adopted by clan mothers of the Longhouse Bear Clan from Akwesasne...
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Indigenous Breeds are Key to Sustainable Pig Farming
2016-09-12 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
SOUTH AFRICA - The drive towards greater production efficiencies has come at the expensive of many indigenous breeds across the world. Glenneis Kriel talked to Dr Arnold Kanengoni about whether there still is room for these breeds in a world where output has become everything.
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How #NoDAPL united a movement for indigenous rights
2016-09-10 08:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Waging NonViolence: On Friday, federal agencies halted work on the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline project where it cuts close to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. The decision came after a long court battle and a wave of nonviolent direct actions led by indigenous organizations. While it remains to be seen whether the Army Corps of Engineers will ultimately allow construction to continue, Fridays news marks an important milestone for a movement years in the making. Four years ago, Elrae Mazakahomni...
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India Adds Three More Pig Breeds to Indigenous Breeds List
2016-08-26 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
INDIA - India has added nine new germplasm of farm animals including a poultry variety to its list of indigenous breeds. Newly enlisted live-stocks include one breed of cattle, two breeds each of goat and sheep, three breeds of pig, writes Basudev Mahapatra.
Mass killings, forced evictions threaten indigenous, minority groups to point of 'eradication' - rights group
2016-07-11 19:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Mass killings, forced evictions and conflicts over land put indigenous and minority groups at risk of being eradicated from their ancestral lands, a human rights group said on Tuesday. From Ethiopia, China and Iraq, the combination of armed conflicts and land dispossession has led to the persecution of minority groups and the erosion of cultural heritage, according to a report by the Minority Rights Group (MRG). Carl Soderbergh, MRG director of policy and communications, said while discrimination...
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