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| 27-Oct-2009 | Aborigine News * Aboriginal Australia |
| Aborigines
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Australia:
Aboriginal fury over topless ban Aborigines
in central Australia are furious after police interrupted a traditional dance
featuring topless women, saying they will file a formal complaint to an anti-discrimination
body. A group of Aboriginal women from Papunya, a remote community near
Alice Springs, were practicing a dance in a public park last week ahead of a performance
in Sydney when police asked them to stop, the commissioner of an elected Aboriginal
council said. |
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| Why
I’m An Indian—not “Native American” - by David Yeagley
As an Oklahoma Comanche, I consider myself an “Indian”—an American Indian. I am not a Native American, nor a First Nations, nor an Aboriginal, and least of all an Indigenous person. I’m simply a descendent of savage hunters with the most lethal war skills and artful horsemanship known in American history. |
| Hollywood, Florida - Seminoles Look to Hard Rock Casinos |
| Amerindian
Christmas The earliest mention of the celebration of Christmas by Amerindians dates back to 1641. Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary who lived with the Georgian Bay Hurons from 1626, composed a Christmas carol in their language telling the story of the birth of the Infant Jesus. Father Brébeuf wanted to convey a real sense of the great mystery of the Nativity and so adapted his story, written in verse, to the distinctive characteristics of the Amerindian culture. Thus the Infant Jesus was wrapped in rabbit skin rather than linen swaddling clothes, he slept in a lodge of broken bark and not in a manger; hunters replaced the shepherds and, as a final touch, three Indian chiefs were substituted for the Wise Men who, instead of gold, incense and myrrh, offered fur skins to the holy Child. |
Seminole
rift more than a black-and-white issue Wewoka,
Okla. - Kenneth Chambers, chief of the Seminole
Nation, is absolutely sure of the truth of the matter. "There
is no black Seminole," he expostulated on a recent day, rising from his
chair to drive the point home like a preacher warning of hell and damnation...
a chasm has opened between the descendants of the Seminole people, Indians and
escaped slaves who banded together in Florida against the white onslaught and
were eventually deposited here along what became known as the Trail of Tears.
- (Tyrone N. Butts) |
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| Letter
to Editor of NNN Aboriginal News: [Personal] "I am looking for a contact phone number for a woman named Whitebear Woman, who was co-presenter at a Wild Women Workshop, at Hollyhock on Cortes Island B.C. a few years ago. The number I have is no longer in service and I am wondering if you are the same woman, or if you know of this woman and can connect me? I am hoping to speak with her about being a possible presenter at a women's camp next year. Anyway, if you can help, please let me know. Thanks for your time. Karen W. - "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman". -- Virginia Wolfe NNN Editor note: No, I am not a woman - I do use a posting name of "Whitebear" though. |
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| Youth
Gangs Flourish on Indian Reservations South Dakota - Over the past 15 years, violent youth gangs have invaded Indian reservations, bringing terror, drugs and vandalism to societies that were already in deep distress. "In the village of Pine Ridge alone, we have a dozen gangs -- Outlaws, Wild Boyz, Trey Trey, Nomads, Iggy Boyz, Aimster Gangsta, Wild Girls, Bad Ass Bitches, Southside Boyz, Northside Boyz and Gangsta Disciples," |
| Pentagon
tells recruiters they can no longer look for troops among natives in Canada
The Americans were operating on the belief that under a treaty signed in 1794 between the United States and Britain, they were allowed to recruit Canadian natives for their armed forces. American recruiters were also under the impression that many of the aboriginals held dual U.S.-Canadian citizenship. - (Rense.com) |
| 4 Found Dead in Rural N.C. Including Boy - All were members of the Haliwa-Saponi tribe of American Indians |
| Medicine
Man, Clergy Confidentiality Same An American Indian medicine man has the same rights as other clergy to keep confessions confidential, a federal judge ruled. |
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at left for full coverage) |
Remote
Easter Island Seeks Autonomy from Chile  HANGA
ROA, Chile (Reuters) - Hundreds of years ago the people of Easter Island carved
and mounted the giant stone figures whose mystery now draws tourists to the world's
most remote inhabited island. But their descendants don't own or manage the land
where the proud statues stand. "This territory is part of Polynesia. We have
our own language, system, culture, identity, and climate. Everything here is different,
which justifies us having a different administration," said Easter Island
Mayor Petero Edmunds, the main promoter of autonomy. -
(NNN Abo)Easter Island's Decaying Statues Await Facelift |
Cannibal
Victim's Relatives to Visit Fiji  The
Australian descendants of a Christian missionary eaten by cannibals 136 years
ago will travel to Fiji this week, hoping to help lift a curse on the village
where he was killed. Rev.
Thomas Baker was murdered in 1867 at Nubutautau, a remote community
high in the hills of the South Pacific island of Viti Levu. Residents say their
community has had bad luck since Baker was consumed and they blame his avenging
spirit. Fiji villagers to say sorry for eating British missionary - "We ate everything but his boots." |
Papua
New Guinea: ''Witch' hacked to death   A
WOMAN accused of sorcery has been hacked to death and dumped in a river just outside
Papua New Guinea's capital, Port Moresby. The woman's husband and son were also
attacked at the weekend by rival
tribesmen, who accused the family of practising sorcery. Many Papua New Guineans
cling to ancestral beliefs in black magic and payback revenge attacks. Last week,
tribesmen in the remote Western Highlands rampaged through a neighbouring village,
raping women, killing pigs
and destroying food gardens. |
| Congo's Pygmies Allege Cannibalism Crimes |
The
Tourist Bureau of New Guinea extends its sincere hopes you will attend this year's
Long Pig Festival 
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- WHERE NOTHING IS AS BLACK AND WHITE AS IT SEEMS!" has added this NNN aboriginal news page to their list of Indigenous news links. |
| New link to this page from Tribe of Seven Billion - Unamity - TribeEarth |
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| Country | Population | Ethnic demographics | European % | Aboriginal % |
| New Zealand |
3,662,265 | New
Zealand European 74.5% "other" European: 4.6%, Maori: 9.7% Asian and others: 7.4% Pacific Islander: 3.8% | 79.1 | 13.5 |
| United States |
White (not 'Spanic'): 71.8%
| 71.8 | 04.9 | |
| Canada |
31,006,347 | British
Isles origin 40% French origin 27% other European 20% -------------------------------- European total: 87% "Other", mostly Asian: 11.5% Amerindian: 1.5%, | 87.0 | 01.5 |
| Australia |
18,783,551 | Caucasian: 92%,
Asian: 7%, Aboriginal and other: 1% | 92.0 | 01.0 |
| Indian
Nation links - to be expanded... American Indian Tribes Federally Recognized Ani-Stohini/Unami Nation is an Algonquian language tribe located in rural Appalachias Cherokee Nation News and Links Chickasaw Nation The official site for the Chickasaw Nation. Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma: Official Home Page Navajo Nation official web site of the Navajo Nation of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Oneida Indian Nation, one of the original members of the Iroquois Confederacy |
| * Did
early hunters exterminate mega fauna in America? What no one is saying is: Did the ancestors of the modern Native Americans wipe out the game? Political correctness and Rouseauian romanticism aside, the answer is "Yes." |
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CULTURAL DIVERSITY
AMONG AFRICAN PYGMIES - by Barry S. Hewlett * HUNTING WITH THE PYGMIES * Safari with the Hadzabe: The Hadzabe will eat anything that moves. Elephant, giraffe, lion--you name it... The modern world has found a variety of uses for leftover hunter-gatherers. Time and again, they have taken up urban positions as bums, criminals, or alcoholics. |
The Ignoble Savage By Thomas S. Garlinghouse |
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| Don't
Let Them Bury Our Heritage! urgent release from Asatru Folk Assembly on Kennewick Man controversy. |
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