81. THENEW PACHA (Article In English) For the more than three million speakers of aymara, the sacred word Pacha is to Aquarianawareness, is the most important in the history of indigenous peoples. http://www.eagleandcondor.20m.com/custom.html

Cheap Web Site Hosting CONTENTS OF OUR WEBSITE AKATAKSA BACKGROUND AKATAKSA PHOTOS 1 ... HOW YOU CAN HELP The following article is reprinted with permission from TRIBAL ARTS DIVERSIFIED THE NEW PACHA A BRILLIANT OPPORTUNITY FOR PRESERVING ORIGINAL NATIVE SPIRIT By Lorenzo Fritz G. Native American Advisor for CONAMAQ Consejo Nacional de Ayllus y Marcas del Qullasuyu (Bolivia) The Native American Andean language known as Aymara is said to be among the oldest in the Western Hemisphere. For the more than three million speakers of Aymara, the sacred word Pacha is used to refer to both time and space one word, one ingenious concept. Our current Pacha, in what has been announced as the transformation from Piscean to Aquarian awareness, is the most important in the history of indigenous peoples. Following some 500 years of unjust rule commencing with western expansion in the late 15th century, the "original guardians" of the earth are at the brink of extinction. Just as entire plant and animal species have disappeared because of unchecked activities by western civilization, tribal cultures are also rapidly becoming extinct. Indigenous peoples are literally disappearing in overpowering capitalistic and political systems that they have little power to defend themselves from. This is a loss not only for them but for mankind as well.

82. Human Rights Internet - The Human Rights Databank Total indigenous population is more than 15 million. The majority is composed ofhighland peoples, mainly Quechua and aymara whose populations exceed 11 million http://www.hri.ca/doccentre/docs/handbook97/tribal.shtml

Global Search Organizations Job Board Tribune ... E-Doc Center Minorities; Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Who are indigenous? No general, universal agreement defines indigenous peoples. This observation is stated in many forms, in relevant UN commissions and working groups, as well as in the World Bank's Operational Directive on Indigenous Peoples. Most countries currently seeking to address indigenous issues do so within the context of their national constitution, and according to their reading of history, rather than as an issue of universal character. In UN-sponsored meetings, representatives of indigenous peoples and many governments have expressed the view that a definition of the concept of indigenous peoples is not necessary at the intenational level, although such definitions may be advisable and necessary at the national level. In addition, indigenous peoples have questioned the need for a universal definition of the concept of "indigenous peoples:" "peoples"

83. Literacy And Indigenous Language Links aymara aymara The aymara Page. in Media Native Americans and Other indigenous PeopleNative Americans Native Americans and indigenous peoples Native American http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~scoronel/links.html

Literacy and Indigenous Language Links Literacy issues Links to Other Literacy and Development Web Sites International Literacy Explorer LiteracyOnline LiteracyLink ... The Adult Education Teacher's Annotated Webliography Indigenous Languages and Cultures of the Americas The Americas in general Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Mundo Indigena de Nuestra America Dying Languages Website The Endangered Language Fund ... National Anthropological Archives Latin America in general Anthro.Net: The Andes Biblio al Dia: Selected New Acquisitions in Latin American Studies Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) Ling-Amerindia ... Tiwanaku Aymara Aymara The Aymara Page Aztec Indigenous Mexican Images Guarani Guarani Homepage Guarani paraguayo - Die Guarani-Netz-Seite Mapuche Lenguas y Culturas de Chile Linguistica Mapuche: Guia Bibliografica Mapuche Links Mapudungum Maya A Bibliography of the Maya Maya Sources Tzuk-Te (Homepage of Mayan Resources) North America in general Alaska Native Language Center American Indian Languages American Indians Studies Research Institute Gender and Race in Media: Native Americans and Other Indigenous People ... Questions on American Indian Languages Siouan Siouan Languages and Related Subjects Return to Serafin M. Coronel-Molina's homepage

84. Untitled Document it acknowledges that the skills of the indigenous peoples should be regarded withthe same respect as any other scientific knowledge. The aymaraQuishwa people http://nativeamericas.aip.cornell.edu/spr98/spr98lw.html

Aymara-Quishwa Knowledge and the Convention on Biological Diversity International law could be positively changed by the implementation of Article 8(j) of the Convention on Biological Diversity, in so far as it acknowledges that the skills of the indigenous peoples should be regarded with the same respect as any other scientific knowledge. The Aymara-Quishwa people, who have inherited and faithfully continue to use traditional knowledge, are aware of the duty of contributing to the efforts made by humanity to adopt steps for the preservation of biological diversity. But we, who suffer from the consequences of South American governments' deficient and irrational management of the environment in our ancestral territories, cannot but protest-in principle-against the total disrespect for Pachamama (Mother Earth) that these governments practice, which push our peoples to the verge of collapse, in full knowledge that our lifestyles are based on the harmonious use of our natural resources. We are glad to participate in this process, as proposed by the International Convention on Biological Diversity, contributing our point of view as a people. But we participate in full awareness of our disadvantage in comparison with other peoples of the world, as we are presently not enjoying the right to practice our self-determination; we cannot freely dispose of our territories and of our natural resources; we are made victims of the fact that many governments do not recognize us as peoples. Our peoples always have used the components of biological diversity in a sustainable way, as for us all living creatures are our relatives and children of Pachamama. The culture of our Aymara-Quishwa people is based on the respect for Pachamama, and according to this principle, our forebears built a society emulating the cosmos. Even today, despite the pressures of grinding poverty, most of our actions are consistent with the preservation and sustainable use of natural resources and the components of biological diversity that we have developed in our territories. Furthermore, our preceding generations have contributed to the enrichment of biological diversity and we would like to continue the task of preserving the rich variety of biological species living in the Andes, conserving and respecting their common base, which is the earth and the water.

85. Biotech Drug Causing Deadly Anemia/Bio-prospectors/Indigenous Assembly Condemns aymara, Guaran , Aztec, Quiche or Mapuche, because we live in a direct relationshipwith Mother Earth, he said. In the world of the indigenous peoples, we http://ngin.tripod.com/041102c.htm

4 November 2002 BIOTECH DRUG CAUSING DEADLY ANEMIA/BIO-PROSPECTORS/INDIGENOUS ASSEMBLY CONDEMNS TRADE PACT "Biotech products need to be handled with great care ... and we need to be looking for unexpected adverse effects." - French physician Jerome Rossert (item 2) "Leonidas Iza, president of the powerful Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), warned that implementing the FTAA [the Free Trade Area of the Americas] could mean the privatization of such basic services as water and the invasion of genetically modified agricultural products." (item 1) "Fortune-hunting scientists are scouring vast tracts of tropical rainforests for plants to produce new antibiotics and other drugs that could be worth billions of dollars. ...Like the gold rush of 150 years ago that lured thousands of hopeful treasure seekers, "bio-prospectors" and global drug giants have staked claims to areas of forest... access to rainforests is the must-have asset for bioprospectors, especially those who want to raise money from stock exchange listings." (item 3) ' "We indigenous peoples do not permit patents or other private property rights over life and traditional knowledge, because for us they are of a collective nature, inalienable and inter- generational, and they are linked to the notion of our ancestral territories."

86. Indigenous Peoples In Latin America - LANIC Translate this page http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/indigenous/

Indigenous Peoples If you are looking for resources related to indigenous languages, please also visit our Languages page. For study abroad opportunities in indigenous languages, please also visit our Language Programs page. Latin American Resources Americas.org Resource Center of the Americas Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America, AIILA or AILLA Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink Center for World Indigenous Studies CWIS Construyendo Alternativas Frente al Neoliberalismo Culturas Pre-Colombinas Legislación Indígena Banco Interamericano de Desarollo Plaza del Sol Resource directory of indigenous peoples and cultures Pueblos Indígenas y Desarrollo Comunitario BID Quechua Network Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas SSILA Regional Resources The Amazon Amazon Conservation Team Amazon Watch Center for Amazonian Literature and Culture The Andes Andes Expedition, Searching for Inca Secrets National Geographic Cultures of the Andes A Peruvian Culture in Time Machu Picchu Library Tawantinsuyu Derechos The Caribbean Caribbean Amerindian Organizational Contacts Depicting and Debating Cannibalism KACIKE Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology Revisiting Columbus and the Indigenous Caribbean Mesoamerica Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations Kevin Callahan GB Online's Mesoamerica Religions Country Resources Argentina AymaraNet Various Information Relating to the Aymaras in Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Ecuador

87. Zeal.com - United States - New - Library - Society - Community & Cultures - Indi indigenous peoples Preview Contributed by idouna . 2. NativeWeb http//www.nativeweb.org/Database of materials about indigenous peoples of the world. http://www.zeal.com/category/preview.jhtml?cid=10133057

88. Native Peoples Wary Of Paternalism and in the way of thinking of our peoples.''. democracy,'' said Clara Flores, an Aymaraand Bolivian According to Cabascango, indigenous people must maintain a http://abyayala.nativeweb.org/ecuador/96encuen/conf3.html

/* Written 4:07 PM Aug 17, 1996 by igc:newsdesk in ax:ips.english */ /* "LATIN AMERICA: Native Peoples Wary" */ *** 14-Aug-96 *** Native Peoples Wary of Paternalism By Mario Gonzalez QUITO, Aug 14 (IPS) - More than 100 representatives of Latin American indigenous groups, meeting this week in this Ecuadorean capital, underlined their desire to play a greater political role. The first continental gathering of Native leaders also denounced paternalism and demagoguery. Their most famous spokersperson, the Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, declared the gathering as ''the first step to bringing a different message, one without the old complaints and that proposes concrete solutions.'' The meeting was held as part of the United Nations-sponsored International Day of Indigenous People which has been held on Aug. 4 every year since 1994. Its conclusions were summarized in an Indigenous Declaration of El Yavirac, named after a small mountain in the southern part of Quito. Distributed here Monday, the declaration describes the need to ''construct our democratic project which does away with authoritarianism, corruption and racism''. Participants analyzed the role of different ethnic groups in democratic processes on a regional level, their experience in getting access to local authorities and relations between indigenous peoples and the State.

89. South Letter 37 the following 12 organizations Alejandro Argumendo, Director, Asociacion QuechuaAymaraANDES/indigenous peoples' Biodiversity Network (IPBN); Bill Christison http://www.southcentre.org/southletter/sl37/sl37-12.htm

Treaty to Share the Genetic Commons The Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI), along with 11 other civil society organizations and indigenous peoples organizations, have been actively involved in drafting a Treaty which, in their view, represents an important and necessary policy departure from the positions taken by many governments and many other inter-governmental treaties. They want the eventual text to be negotiated and adopted by governments at the Rio+10 Conference in South Africa next year such that it becomes a legally binding international commitment.* Central aim The purpose is to establish the Earth's gene pool, in all of its biological forms and manifestations, as a global commons to be jointly shared by all peoples. This would prohibit all patents on plant, animal, and human life including patents on genes and the products they code for, in their natural, purified or synthesized form, as well as chromosomes, cells, tissues, organs and organisms including cloned, transgenic and chimeric organisms. While the initiative does have some elements in common with other efforts to establish a global regime to govern and regulate the use of biological resources the Biological Diversity Convention, the International Undertaking on Plant Genetic Resources, TRIPS, etc. it differs from these in one very fundamental respect. Unlike these other initiatives, this treaty opposes the extension of intellectual property rights to any living thing as well as the components of all living things. Its drafters believe that our evolutionary heritage is not a negotiable commodity. While they laud the good intentions of both the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the International Undertaking on Plant Genetic Resources (IU), they argue that the goal of equitably sharing the earth's biological heritage can only be realized by prohibiting all commercial patents on life.

90. Languages In Latin America - LANIC http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/languages/

Languages This page contains links to resources for those interested in Latin American languages. If you are looking for study abroad sources, please see our Language Programs page. For more reference sources, particularly dictionaries, please see our Reference page. For additional resources related to indigenous languages and cultures, please visit our Indigenous Peoples page. For links to lesson plans and other language instruction materials, take a look at the page, particularly its Language Instruction section. Aymara Aymara Uta Lenguaje, Cultura e Historia Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara ILCA, La Paz, Bolivia Lenguas y Culturas de Chile Logical and Linguistic Problems of Social Communication with the Aymara People Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages Kreyol Words Archive ... Languages of Suriname Particularly Sranan Papiamentu Tourism Corporation of Bonaire Guarani Guarani Paraguayo Guarani Raity Mapuche Language Mapudungun - Linguistic Mayan Languages Clase de Lengua Maya Con audio Kaquchikel Resource Center Mayan Epigraphic Database Project MED Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing Rabbit in the Moon Mayan Glyphs and Architecture Summer Intensive Introductory Course in Yucatec Maya Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies Nahuatl Nahuatl Summer LanguageInstitute and On-line Dictionary Yale University Nahuatl Vocabulary and Contemporary Poems Tlahui Guide Nahuatl and Aztec Culture Portuguese Portuguese for Travelers Sonia Portuguese Quechuan A Few Words on Quechua Mark Rosenfelder

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