Indigenous Peoples whose territories transcend State boundaries include Indians in Central and South America, the Mohawk in Canada and the United States, and the Inuit of the Russian Far East, United States, Canada and Greenland.

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Annex V

American Indian Law Alliance

Indigenous rights and such issues as social, economic and cultural development were addressed by the Ministry for Amerindian Affairs, established in 1992, which also ensured that Amerindian interests were taken fully into account in all Government policies, programmes and projects.

International Organization for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

The territories of Indians in the Americas and elsewhere, were largely taken by military force.

International Committee for the Indians of the Americas (Incomindios Switzerland)

A bill conferring land title upon Amerindians was currently before the legislature.

Manhattan Island derives its name from its earliest inhabitants the Manhattan Indians.

Before colonization by Spain and the United States of America, the Chamorros had lived in self governing political entities, like the American Indians and other indigenous peoples.

In particular, in August 1996, indigenous peoples, together with a Danish non governmental organization, had organized the first meeting of indigenous peoples from the Americas.

Participants in the ceremony in New York included representatives of the American Indian Community House (United States of America) and the Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (Ecuador), and a representative of the Mosiro Masai people (Kenya).

An indigenous participant from North America informed the Working Group that the Inter American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States had completed its preparation of a proposed inter American declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples.

That will be followed by a review by the Inter American Juridical Committee and the Inter American Indian Institute.

21. INTERNATIONAL INDIAN TREATY COUNCIL The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) was founded in 1974 at a gathering called by the American Indian Movement at Standing Rock, South Dakota, attended by more than 5,000 representatives of 98 indigenous nations.

32. INCORA apos s purchase of land from private individuals or corporations for the benefit of the indigenous communities has made it possible to increase the number of resguardos.

Regional representatives from the Organization of American States (OAS), and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a Commissioner of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights of the African Union, and an indigenous member of the Commission's Working Group on Indigenous Populations Communities have served as resource persons for the training sessions.

Eighty one per cent of the population is West Indian, while 13 per cent were born in the United States mainland.3

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Grand Council of the Crees, Indian Law Resource Centre, International Indian Treaty Council, Inuit Circumpolar Conference, International Organization of Indigenous Resource Development, National Aboriginal and Islander Legal Service Secretariat, Saami Council.

(iv) The Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean

In a number of other countries (such as India, the Sudan, the Great Lakes region of Africa and the Andean countries) ILO has conducted studies on forms of child labour among indigenous children and their implications for the education, health and well being of indigenous peoples.

In October 2005, Guatemala had hosted a Conclave of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, followed by the sixth meeting of negotiations to seek consensus on the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, within the framework of the Organization of American States (OAS).

We've focused in the U.S. on African American students as well as Native American and Latino.

Indigenous issues and the Inter American Development Bank

Start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans, and not with the arrival of the British, and you have an entirely different story.

Indian Confederation of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (India)

88. The existing and emerging norms and minimum standards contained in the Rio Declaration, ILO Convention No. 169, the proposed American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the draft United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples should all be seen as a way to resolve the problems between States and indigenous peoples.

For his first mission, he's being sent ... among the wildest of the natives!

44. IITC has conducted an assessment of the problem of nuclear contamination and the human rights of indigenous peoples.

An indigenous participant from Asia focused on the health situation of the Adivasi people in India.

It was a member of the Fund for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean and had done its utmost to contribute to work on the draft Inter American declaration on the rights of indigenous people.

39. The observer for the Indian Law Resource Center proposed that the full and equal participation of indigenous peoples in the working group be ensured.

19. The Health of Indigenous Peoples Initiative of PAHO was introduced in the Americas in September 1993 as a result of a joint venture with representatives of the regional Governments, non governmental organizations, indigenous organizations and the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

Corresponds to the former mining reducción (resettled community) on the Cañamomo and Lomaprieta indigenous resguardo in Caldas department.

The Committee requests the State party to further clarify the situation regarding Amerindians in Barbados.

Countries of the Andean region of Latin America had demonstrated some positive recognition of genetic resources as the property of indigenous peoples.

Prior to the proclamation of a Decade for the World's Indigenous People, Guyana had undertaken at the international level a commitment to ensure respect for the rights of indigenous people, as shown by the establishment, in 1993, of a Ministry of Amerindian Affairs to ensure the welfare and development of indigenous communities.

In some Ibero American countries, indigenous and Afro descendant people account for a significant proportion of the groups concerned.

(d) A project to strengthen respect for the common law rule of the indigenous peoples of Central America

260. The observer for the Movimiento Indio Tupaj Katari said that the problems of indigenous peoples could not be solved without solving the problems of indigenous lands, territories and resources since these were crucial to their survival.

45. IITC determined the following means of contamination of indigenous peoples and communities

34. One particularly clear example of the problem of extinguishment is provided by the case of the Tee Hit Ton Indians v. United States. 348 U.S. 272 (1995).

Give it all back to the poor old Indians.

Indian Confederation of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples