World Wide
Japanese Language
America/Europe
North (Arctic, Europe)
General
- ARCTIC STUDIES
CENTER Home
- Congress provided funding for the Arctic Studies Center in 1988 as a
permanent program for northern research and education within the National
Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. In keeping with
the Smithsonian's mandate for the "increase and diffusion of knowledge,"
the Center is dedicated to the study of northern peoples, their history
and environment.
- Arctic
Circle
- Natural Resources ( Sustainability, Economic Development, Resource Management,
the Global Economy)
- History and Culture ( Exploring the past, Colonization, Euro-American
Portrayals, Indigenous Response, Ethnographic Portraits )
- Social Equity and Environmental Justice ( Struggle over Land Claims,
Self-Determination, Resource Utilization, Cultural Identity )
- Museum ( Art, Photography, and Anthropology )
- Virtual Classroom ( Syllabus, Overview, Case Studies )
- Arctic Forum ( A discussion group for visitors to Arctic Circle.)
- Treaty 7 Home Page,
Indian Termination Policy, Canada, 1996
- Our home page resides on our own WWW server, which is part of our Internet
Server located in our council office in Calgary, Alberta. Our WWW services
and general Internet services are owned and operated by the Treaty 7 Tribal
Council. This is an independent Treaty 7 initiative and established through
our own resources.
- Tlingit
National Anthem: Alaska Natives Online web page
- Tlingit Culture History, Current Alaska Native and American Indian issues,
Alaska Tourist guide, Native American links resources.
Inuit, Aleut
- Innu Nation/Mamit Innuat
WWW Site
- This is a trilingual WWW Site - Innu/French/English
- Inuit Circumpolar
Conference
- See video from the Inuit Circummpolar Conference, Greenland, July 24
- 31,1998
I
- nuit
Sculpture
- With the exception of Baker Lake, the major Inuit sculpture producing
settlements, mostly ranging in population from a few hundred to 1,000 people,
dot the Arctic coastline. While each community has its own style, certain
regional characteristics are apparent.
The sculpture of Arctic Quebec (Nouveau Qu饕ec; Nunavik) tends to be naturalistic,
and is often narrative in nature. Animals and realistic hunting scenes,
as well as legends and stories, are favoured subjects. The predominantly
grey stones are generally blackened and polished, then incised.
- Colonialism in Greenland: An Inuit Perspective
- Abstract. The concept of colonialism and its effects are discussed from
the point of view of Greenlandic experience. Problems arise when the ideology
of the colonizers is adopted by the colonized peoples themselves, especially
by the educated individuals who are more likely to be employed in positions
of influence. Colonialistic attitudes and policies persisted in Greenland
even after the end of the colonial period and the establishment of Home
Rule. Neo-colonialism and internal colonialism are compared.
- Groups-Eskimo
& Aleut
- Eskimos and Aleuts are Native Americans. Both peoples are racially similar
to Siberian people, and their languages are from the same language family.
In their migrations from across the bridge that connected Asia and North
America, Eskimos settled in the Arctic region of the continent. The Aleuts
inhabited the Aleutian Islands, a chain of rugged, volcanic islands west
of the tip of the Alaskan Peninsula. The first Europeans to meet these
people were Vikings who lived on Greenland. Beginning in the 1500's explorers
met Eskimos in the eastern regions of Arctic North America, then Russians
and other European explorers arrived in the 1700's. Aleuts were first noticed
by Vitus Jonassen Bering in 1741, and like the Eskimos, they were skilled
in hunting and fishing....
- Aleut
Culture
- Before 1741, the year Vitus Bering 'discovered' Alaska, it has been estimated
by historians that the Aleut population was at least at about 16,000 people.
When the Siberian Russians first visited the islands they were first likely
to have been, in the more populous areas, greeted by a number of Aleuts
in their one, two or three-man kayaks, sometimes offering gifts as a show
of friendship or for gift-exchanging.....
Sami
- An introduction
to the Sami people.
- A presentation to share information and knowledge so that others may
come to understand us. An overview of the native Sami art, culture, current
issues, history plus a few pages of recent events presented from an indigenous
perspective. We hope that this taken together with the links on a separate
page will give an overall picture of the Sami people and what the contemporary
life is like.
- Samefolket
- Nils Tomas Labba: "The broken relations between the settled population
and the Sami's, a sign of poverty!"
- If there's a ratification of the ILO 169, nasty things will happen!:
The forestowners feel threatened by the ILO -convention
- What happened in 1970?: We take a look at an old issue of Samefolket.
- Thoughts from a locked room: Chronicler: Olof T. Johansson
- In the Sami nation: A selection of news in brief with images
- SAMI RADIO
Native American
General
- NATIVE
AMERICAN INDIAN RESOURCES
- There are over 300 web pages here. MainMenu leads to menus of independent
topical sections.
- Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
HSU: Native American Studies
Program
- Unique among CSU campuses in its close proximity to several thriving
Native American communities, Humboldt State provides a rich environment
for studying the Native American heritage and for preparing for careers
in areas such as Indian education, counseling, and cultural and natural
resources.
(ITEPP); the Indian Natural Resources, Science and Engineering Program
(INRSEP); and the Center for Indian Community Development (CICD).
The NAS Program consists of two degree goals at HSU. The first goal is
a minor in NAS. The minor requires that a student take 15 units of approved
classes for completion. The minor degree of study will help a student better
understand Native Americans from the perspective of their own major of
study. The second goal of study is the major in NAS. The major requires
a student to take 3 introductory classes and then to complete other areas
as seen fit by the student or counselor or both which will better help
them fulfill their goal (In the future the program hopes to have a masters
degree in place for students).
- Native American Rights
Fund (NARF)
- Indian lives are governed by hundreds of treaties, thousands of federal
statutes, and numerous regulations and administrative rulings -- many of
them which contradict each other. There must be resolution of these legal
barriers if Indian people are to have any chance for an improved day-to-day
existence. The Native American Rights Fund provides the necessary legal
representation to Native American tribes and villages, organizations and
individuals to help untangle the maze of laws impacting their lives.
The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) is the non-profit legal organization
devoted to defending and promoting the legal rights of the Indian people.
NARF attorneys, most of whom are Native Americans, defend tribes who otherwise
cannot bear the financial burden of obtaining justice in the courts of
the United States. NARF has unique role in America: It focuses on guaranteeing
that national and state governments live up to their legal obligations
mainly through work in the courtroom. Here, NARF invokes laws enacted by
these same government bodies to give strength and substance to promises
that have been empty for too many years. the staff of NARF use their understanding
of Native American legal issues to assist tribes in negotiating with individuals,
companies, and governmental agencies, and to help draft and promote beneficial
legislation. One major focus of the organization is to restore the rights
guaranteed by existing laws and treaties. This emphasis helps Native Americans
in all 50 states advance toward controlling their own destinies and assuring
their own survival. Cases are accepted on the basis of their breadth and
potential importance in setting precedents and establishing important principles
of Indian law.
- "Rogue
Bureaucracy"
- Rogue Bureaucracy is a look back through recent years at the patterns
of U.S. Department of Interior/Federal mismanagement - deliberate mismanagement
in the author's opinion - of oil, gas, and other minerals owned by the
U.S. taxpayer, State's citizens and American Indian tribes and individuals.
Bill Robinson calls this "Rogue Bureaucracy" because it is his
firm belief that the fraud and deception are deliberate. Even if no one
is taking money to allow these various types of malfeasance (and worse),
the decades-long history clearly qualifies Interior (and Congress) as a
Rogue Bureaucracy. Billions of dollars have been lost. Feel free to email
Bill (via the mailto link above) if you see related information that you
think he should add. Better yet, capture this entire set of info and give
it to your local newspaper editor.
- MIDWEST TREATY
NETWORK
- The Midwest Treaty Network is an alliance of Indian and non-Indian groups
supporting Native American sovereignty.
- University
of Saskatchewan:Native Law Centre
- Welcome to the Native Law Centre of Canada. Draw a breath of fresh air
in Saskatchewan, where you may find Aboriginal scholars working for new
definitions of law, justice and humanity.
Saskatchewan is the vibrant centre of native Canada. Aboriginal legacy
and presence is shared through a mix of many evolving cultures that met
the challenge of creating a post-colonial Canada like no other nation or
place.
Saskatchewan is diverse as it is splendid. Its pure and natural panorama
is sensational drama. Much of the drama is the relations between the sky
and the earth. In the summer, as much sky exists as grassland, and growing
harvests. In the winter, as much snow exists as sky. The sky would not
be so spectacular without the changing and reflecting land. From the windswept
prairies, to the rolling hills, to the northern forest, and sparking lakes
reminded one of the need to preserve the ecology of the land. The overpowering
panorama restores the need to understand the Aboriginal view of the land
as a spiritual giver of life. It has a spiritual presence that affirms
that the land still owns and directs the lives of its inhabitants. It is
a space that makes you aware of your insignificance and significance, or
ambiguity and personal clarity.
- NATIVE
AMERICAS
- Native Americas is the award-winning publication of Akwe:kon Press of
the American Indian Program at Cornell University. It features articles
that cover the most important and critical issues of concern to native
(indigenous/aboriginal) peoples throughout the Western Hemisphere, synthesizing
the many voices, perspectives and streams of information that currently
permeate the communication highways. Native Americas' writers, thinkers
and doers are firmly rooted in Native American community life. It is therefore
a source of significant and reliable information. Many of the articles
in Native Americas feature breaking news from in-depth investigative reporting.
- UCLA AMERICAN
INDIAN STUDIES CENTER
- The American Indian Studies Center (AISC) was founded in 1969. The Center
serves the educational and cultural needs of the American Indian students
at UCLA and the Los Angeles American Indian communities. As one of UCLA's
24 Organized Research Units our Center ranks among the top research centers
of its kind in the country.
- SUPPORT
INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY!
- HISTORICAL OVERVIEW: Colonialism and indigenous resistance
- THE BIGGER PICTURE: Neo-colonialism and the international corporate agenda
- RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS: Exposing the torture and abuse that was part of
the campaign to assimilate and/or destroy native children
- VOICES OF RESISTANCE: Native sovereigntists writing and speaking from
the front-lines
- SOVEREIGNTIST NATIONS / STRUGGLES...etc,
- Native
American Support Group of New York City web page
- Native American Support Group of New York City was founded in 1988 to
present current American Indian issues from the United States, Alaska and
Hawaii. We added these International Indigenous Issues Accin Zapatista,
Peace in Northern Ireland and Amanaka's Amazon Network in Oct 1997.
Journal
Group
- Innu Nation/Mamit Innuat
WWW Site
- This is a trilingual WWW Site - Innu/French/English
- Oneida Indian Nation
- The Oneida Indian Nation, one of the original members of the Iroquois
Confederacy, enjoys a unique role in America's history having supported
the Colonies in the struggle for independence from England. The Nation
exists as a sovereign political unit which predates the Constitution of
the United States.
- Wyandot
Nation of Kansas
- The Wyandot Nation of Kansas was incorporated in 1959 and is recognized
by the State of Kansas as an Indian Tribe. The Wyandot Nation of Kansas
is currently petitioning the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of
Indian Affairs for federal recognition. The Wyandot Nation of Kansas is
made up of those formerly known as "absentee" or "citizen
class" Wyandot Indians. The Wyandot Nation of Kansas is dedicated
to the preservation of Wyandot history and culture and the preservation,
protection, restoration and maintenance of the Huron Indian Cemetery in
Kansas City, Kansas.
- Mole Lake
Environmental Newsletter
- Sokaogon Chippewa Community Environmental Office, Wisconsin
- Fight
For Justice on the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Reservationハ
- the 63 page Federal Indictment on Fred Dakota
- IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
NORTHERN DIVISION...etc,
- TENTH ANNUAL
NAVAJO STUDIES CONFERENCE
- The University of New Mexico invites you to return to Albuquerque--the
site of the initial gathering--to participate in the Tenth Annual Navajo
Studies Conference. Paper presentations will be held in concurrent sessions
on April 17, 18, and 19. Individual presentations are limited to twenty
minutes, leaving an additional ten minutes for discussion. We expecially
solicit student participation. Professors, please encourage your students
to attend.
- SOUTH DAKOTA
PROPOSES RESTRICTING NATIVE AMERICAN USE OF STATE LAND
- As of today, 12.19.96, this issue has generated much activity...the House
of Janklow (the South Dakota State House) has attempted to block email
and subsequently denied that they intended to act as has been reported
by us. The ACLU has addressed this issue and the Dakota Territorial Chairman's
Council has issued a statement.
- Leech
Lake General Council: Tribal Voices Website
- Website dedicated to the memory of Truman C. Beaulieu. A true Leader
and Warrior of the people of his community and of Leech Lake Reservation.
Truman served as Local Council Chairman of the Sugar Point Tribal Community
and Vice President of L.L. General Council.
Latin America
General
Group
- Guatemala:
Voices of the Pueblo Maya
- Peace Brigades International - Guatemala Special Report: October, 1995
...It is impossible to claim that Guatemala is a democratic state when
the indigenous majority is not represented in national politics. For centuries,
the 'Pueblo Maya' has relied upon communitarian principles to guide its
sophisticated organizational and power structures. From this base, the
indigenous population has launched its resistance. As a result of the extreme
repression it has faced, the Pueblo Maya has often been forced to conceal
its politics from the outside world....
- Indigenous
peole: Law and Politicy in Peru
- Introduction
Indigenous people and the law is a relatively new and fascinating topic
in Andean studies. In the last fifteen years, an increasing number of investigators
have begun to investigate the use of national law by indigenous people,
and, more recently, interest in indigenous and peasant law has also increased.
The results of this research by historians, anthropologists, and legal
scholars have now provided sufficient information to permit the elaboration
of a preliminary theoretical framework for understanding the use of legal
mechanisms by indigenous people in the Andes. This paper proposes such
a framework based on an historical structural analysis of modes of conflict
resolution employed by indigenous communities and their members in Peru
between 1821 and 1968.[1] It identifies the major variables that affected
indigenous conflict resolution in this period and advances a series of
hypotheses about the major interrelationships between these variables.
Finally, given that research on these topics is still in its preliminary
stages, a number of suggestions are made regarding fruitful avenues for
future research....
- Peace
Brigades International, Colombia
-Peace Brigades International
(PBI) is an organization offering international unarmed protective accompaniment
to human rights activists, refugees, and communities threatened with violence.
By invitation, PBI started to work in Colombia in 1994, and at present,
there is a team of about 12 people operating out of two offices in Bogota
and Barrancabermeja. Regular reports on human rights in Colombia are available
at this site.
- Peace
Brigades International, Haiti
-Peace Brigades International
(PBI) is an international organization working in the area of nonviolence,offering,
among other things, unarmed protective accompanimentto human rights activists
and communities threatenedwith violence. By invitation, PBI started a long
term project inHaiti in December of 1995. You will find below a list of
regular and special reports on human rights in Haiti and the on the work
carried out by the PBI team.
- LatinoLink:MEXICO'S
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES UNITED BY SHARED HISTORY
- MEXICO CITY, May 6, 1996 -- In Mexico's urban slums and poor villages,
in its southern jungles and harsh central mountains, a vast indigenous
Indian population clings to cultures and languages from another millennium.
Mexico's 12 million indigenous people speak more than 60 languages and
live scattered throughout the country's 31 states and Mexico City...
Oceania
Aotearoa/New Zealand
Asia
Japan
Ryukyu People (Okinawa, Japan)Autonomy of the Ryukyus
- Draft
of Special Autonomy Law for the Ryukyu Islands Okinawa Project, All Japan
Prefectural and Municipal Workers' Union-1. Foreword
2. General Provisions 3. Rights and Obligations of the Residents 4. Organization
and Authority of the Autonomy of the Ryukyus 5. Relations Between Entities
6. Intergovernmental Arbitration Committee 7. Supplementary Rules 8. Enactment
Procedure
- Welcome
to Blue Peace! -The purpose of this page is to
encourage thinking about peace via a careful consideration of U.S.Military
Bases in Okinawa.
- New heliport of US military in Okinawa and the destruction of
the environment-During the Second World War, the
Japanese government built numerous military bases in Okinawa for the purpose
of defending the Japanese mainland. In 1945 the ferocious "Typhoon
of Steel" by the US military at the time of their invasion of Okinawa
resulted in much of the lush natural environment being destroyed, and many
of the locals subsequently had their land confiscated to make way for numerous
military bases. The prefecture makes up no more than 0.6% of the total
land area of Japan, and yet, for the whole of the 52 years since the war,
approximately 75% of the Japanese land which is under the exclusive control
of the US military has been concentrated here, and this land makes up approximately
20% of the prefecture's main island, Okinawa Island. The distinctive local
culture has been ruined as a result of the land being taken up by the bases,
and a number of important historical monuments have been destroyed.
- Good
Bye US Marine PROJECT-Japan Coalition on the U.S.
Military Bases. Our second opinion ad. on N.Y.Times dated Nov. 23rd.We
will inform what is happened in Japan around the US bases on our ad.. Then
we will welcome the opinions from US citizens who read our ad.. We will
translate all of the opinions from America and inform Japanese citizens
what American are feeling and thinking about this problem.
- Protest
against 3 US Military Servicemen Raping a 12 yr old school girl-Sept. 12 marks the anniversary of this page. Since our purpose
has started to center more towards reduction and removal of bases, we are
currently considering to change the title of our page.Although the incident
was the actual reason we started this page, we believe it's time to leave
the victims alone.
- Okinawans
want reduction of U.S. base-Even though US base
is required for world power balance in the Far-east regions, but why in
Okinawa the US base facilities are located among the Okinawan people towns?
If the peace pact is necessary between the US and Japan, why the 75% of
base are concentrate in Okinawa island only? Remember the size of the island
is 0.6% of Japan. We believe Americans are democratic and they must understand
the severe situation has to be changed radically. We ask Japan main landers
to share the much more duty of the world peace
- THE
RYUKYU AMERICA HISTORICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY -THE
RYUKYU AMERICA HISTORICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY was founded in 1986 by the late
Dr. Rolf von Scorebrand. The society is a nonprofit organization and has
no affiliation with political or religious groups. It's main purpose is
to find and preserve books,documents and items related to Okinawa and to
make them available for public study. Through this and other society sponsored
programs we hope to create interest and promote understanding of Okinawa's
Past , Present and Future.
Ainu
- THE
RIndigenous
People in northern Japan(recommanded)
- The Ainu is indigenous people in Japan, originally inhabited northern
Japan and Sakhalin. Since they didn't have written record, their origin
partly remains unknown. According to historical documents by Japanese,
they led lives based on hunting and gathering, fishing. Also they enjoyed
crossing sea for trading.
- The
Foundation for Research and Promotion of Ainu Culture
Contents
- Realizing a Society Where the Pride of Ainu People as
an Ethnic Group Is Respected
- History of the Foundation's Establishment
- Projects
- An Act for the Promotion of Ainu Culture, the Spread
of Knowledge relevant to Ainu Traditions, and an Education Campaign(#52/1997)
- Report of the Experts Meeting Concerning Ainu Affairs
- GUIDE
TO JAPAN: Ainu(introduction)
- Since the rulers of Yamato Japan had started to expand their territory
eastwards in the middle of the first millenium, the Ainu were constantly
displaced to the North or mixed with the Japanese. Since the rulers of
Yamato Japan had started to expand their territory eastwards in the middle
of the first millenium,the Ainu were constantly displaced to the North
or mixed with the Japanese.
In the Meiji Period (1868-1912) they received the status of former aboriginals
but were strongly discriminated. In the Meiji Period (1868-1912) they received
the status of former aboriginals but were strongly discriminated.
- Law
Enacted to Protect Ainu Culture Tradition
- The new Ainu Law was passed in the Lower House
- Buraku Liberation News, July 1997 issue (N0.97)
The new Ainu Law was passed in the Lower House on May 8, 1997, and will
take effect within three months. The law is the nation's first legislation
acknowledging the existence of an ethnic minority in Japan. Although the
law itself does not designate the Ainu people as an indigenous ethnic group,
a resolution paired with it does.
- The Ainu of Japan
- E Law: Toward a Genuine Redress for an Unjust Past: The Nibutani
Dam Case
Contents
1.Introduction
2.The relationship between the Ainu people and Japan
3.The Nibutani Dam
4.The Court decision
5.Conclusion
- NativeNet: Ainu articles from NATIVE-L
- The following articles, taken from the NATIVE-L mailing list, all have
to do with the Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, now living mainly
on the island of Hokkaido.
Culture
- Photograph(Kuril,Sakhalin
Ainu)
- Two
Ainu girls with tattooed mustaches.
- THE AINU MUSEUM
- CONTENT
- The Ainu People
- Eating Habits
- Wild Vegetables
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Agriculture
- Clothing
- Ornaments
- Housing
- Religion/Sending Sprits Back
- The Life of The Ainu-1 (Marriage〜Pregnancy〜Birth)
- The Life of The Ainu-2(Child Rearing〜Naming〜Coming
of Age〜Family)
- The Life of The Ainu-3(Death)
- Sacred Dances-1
- Sacred Dances-2
- Oral Literature
- The Ainu Museum
- References on the Ainu and Ryuukyuan Languages
- Ainu Creed and Cult
- Neil Gordon Munro (1863-1942) was born in Edinburgh, where he was educated.
Soon after qualifying as a medical doctor, he began to travel in the Far
East, first in India and later in Japan. In 1893, he became Director of
the General Hospital in Yokohama and, although he returned to Europe occasionally,
from that time until his death he made Japan his home. He became interested
in Japanese history, and it was during his many visits to Hokkaido that
he encountered Ainu, the little-known aboriginal people of Japan.
- Ainu;The
Anatomy of an Exhibit
- CONTENT
- Some History- (Background on the Ainu People)
- An Idea Takes Shape-(Bill Fitzhugh's Exhibit Journal
'90-'94)
- Ainu Coordinator Needed-(Bill Fitzhugh's Exhibit Journal
'94-'95)
- The Real World-(Kitty Dubreuil's Exhibit Journal '95-'96)
- Folklife Festival-(Kitty Dubreuil's Exhibit Journal
'96)
- Fundraising-(Kitty Dubreuil's Exhibit Journal '96)
- Japan Trip-(Kitty Dubreuil's Exhibit Journal '96-'97)
- Another Grant-(Kitty Dubreuil's Exhibit Journal '97)
- A Visit from Oki Kano-(Kitty Dubreuil's Exhibit Journal
'97)
- Dulles NOT Dallas-(Kitty Dubreuil's Exhibit Journal
97)
- Substantial Planning Grant Received-(Kitty Dubreuil's
Exhibit Journal 98)
- Other Resources-(Selected Bibliography and Web Resourcesal
people of Japan)
- Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney Publications
- Research Interests: Japanese and Ainu culture, symbolic and historical
anthropology, nationalism and ethnicity, gender, ethnomedicine, and social
marginalization.
- アイヌ民族関連記事
- アイヌ民族ニュースから
- 都澤総明氏のホームページ総合政策学から
- 植民地としての北海道の歴史を概観する
- 北海道旧土人保護法制定の背景
- 北海道旧土人保護法とはどんな法律か
- アイヌ民族法の制定について
- まとめ
- さいごに
- アイヌ新法政府案(全文)
- 第4次ウタリ対策関連公文書(平成9年度予算)
- 第4次ウタリ対策関連公文書(平成7年度決算)
- アイヌ民族に関する法律案(昭和59年北海道ウタリ協会総会採択)
- 財団法人アイヌ文化振興財団
北千島アイヌに関する資料
アイヌ民族の文化