"I guess these old people, our great ancestor people, they said that one day you will forget all your religion and your culture and all that...if we forget all about our culture and religion, we have nowhere to go, we don't know how to pray, we don't know how to use our corn pollen, corn meal, anything that we pray with, we forget all about that. Before that happens, we'd better do something." -
Jimmy Toddy, Navajo
Friday, May 30, 2008
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Our Mission:
Through a three-pronged strategy of education, advocacy, and capitalization, First Nations Development Institute is working to restore Native control and culturally-compatible stewardship of the assets they own - be they land, human potential, cultural heritage, or natural resources - and to establish new assets for ensuring the long-term vitality of Native communities.
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A Native American tribe is more than the sum of its parts. It embodies the mystique of its community, the circle of inclusion. Within each member it generates powerful feelings of cultural solidarity. That precious spirit cannot survive without the underpinnings of economic development. But the development must be for everyone, for the tribe as a whole — not just a few. That is the Native American understanding.
We believe, that when armed with appropriate resources, Native peoples hold the capacity and ingenuity to ensure the sustainable economic, spiritual, and cultural well being of their communities.
Check it out. www.firstnations.org
Through a three-pronged strategy of education, advocacy, and capitalization, First Nations Development Institute is working to restore Native control and culturally-compatible stewardship of the assets they own - be they land, human potential, cultural heritage, or natural resources - and to establish new assets for ensuring the long-term vitality of Native communities.
Philosophy:
A Native American tribe is more than the sum of its parts. It embodies the mystique of its community, the circle of inclusion. Within each member it generates powerful feelings of cultural solidarity. That precious spirit cannot survive without the underpinnings of economic development. But the development must be for everyone, for the tribe as a whole — not just a few. That is the Native American understanding.
We believe, that when armed with appropriate resources, Native peoples hold the capacity and ingenuity to ensure the sustainable economic, spiritual, and cultural well being of their communities.
Check it out. www.firstnations.org
Public meeting will focus on Makah whaling impact
By: Jim Casey
PORT ANGELES — Almost three years in the writing, the environmental-impact statement on Makah whaling will make its live public debut today in the Vern Burton Center.
The public meeting is scheduled to run from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the hall at 208 E. Fourth St.
Another session is set for 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Monday in the Lake Union Park Armory, 860 Terry Ave. N., Seattle.
Nine hundred pages long, the environmental-impact statement is the National Marine Fisheries Service examination of the tribe's request for a waiver from the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
A federal appeals court ruled in June 2004 that the tribe was subject to the act, and the Makah filed for a waiver in February 2005.
The fisheries service conducted scoping hearings in October 2005, and since then tribal whale hunters and anti-whalers alike have awaited the impact statement.
Get the rest of the story here: http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20080528/NEWS/805280306
PORT ANGELES — Almost three years in the writing, the environmental-impact statement on Makah whaling will make its live public debut today in the Vern Burton Center.
The public meeting is scheduled to run from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the hall at 208 E. Fourth St.
Another session is set for 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Monday in the Lake Union Park Armory, 860 Terry Ave. N., Seattle.
Nine hundred pages long, the environmental-impact statement is the National Marine Fisheries Service examination of the tribe's request for a waiver from the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
A federal appeals court ruled in June 2004 that the tribe was subject to the act, and the Makah filed for a waiver in February 2005.
The fisheries service conducted scoping hearings in October 2005, and since then tribal whale hunters and anti-whalers alike have awaited the impact statement.
Get the rest of the story here: http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20080528/NEWS/805280306
Rare uncontacted tribe photographed in Amazon
By: Stuart Grudgings
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Amazon Indians from one of the world's last uncontacted tribes have been photographed from the air, with striking images released on Thursday showing them painted bright red and brandishing bows and arrows.
The photographs of the tribe near the border between Brazil and Peru are rare evidence that such groups exist. A Brazilian official involved in the expedition said many of them are in increasing danger from illegal logging.
"What is happening in this region is a monumental crime against the natural world, the tribes, the fauna and is further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the 'civilized' ones, treat the world," Jose Carlos Meirelles was quoted as saying in a statement by the Survival International group.
One of the pictures, which can be seen on Survival International's Web site (http://www.survival-international.org), shows two Indian men covered in bright red pigment poised to fire arrows at the aircraft while another Indian looks on.
Another photo shows about 15 Indians near thatched huts, some of them also preparing to fire arrows at the aircraft.
"The world needs to wake up to this, and ensure that their territory is protected in accordance with international law. Otherwise, they will soon be made extinct," said Stephen Corry, the director of Survival International, which supports tribal people around the world.
Of more than 100 uncontacted tribes worldwide, more than half live in either Brazil or Peru, Survival International says. It says all are in grave danger of being forced off their land, killed and ravaged by new diseases.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Amazon Indians from one of the world's last uncontacted tribes have been photographed from the air, with striking images released on Thursday showing them painted bright red and brandishing bows and arrows.
The photographs of the tribe near the border between Brazil and Peru are rare evidence that such groups exist. A Brazilian official involved in the expedition said many of them are in increasing danger from illegal logging.
"What is happening in this region is a monumental crime against the natural world, the tribes, the fauna and is further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the 'civilized' ones, treat the world," Jose Carlos Meirelles was quoted as saying in a statement by the Survival International group.
One of the pictures, which can be seen on Survival International's Web site (http://www.survival-international.org), shows two Indian men covered in bright red pigment poised to fire arrows at the aircraft while another Indian looks on.
Another photo shows about 15 Indians near thatched huts, some of them also preparing to fire arrows at the aircraft.
"The world needs to wake up to this, and ensure that their territory is protected in accordance with international law. Otherwise, they will soon be made extinct," said Stephen Corry, the director of Survival International, which supports tribal people around the world.
Of more than 100 uncontacted tribes worldwide, more than half live in either Brazil or Peru, Survival International says. It says all are in grave danger of being forced off their land, killed and ravaged by new diseases.
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