WORLDVIEW: Indigenous Peoples

There are some 300 million indigenous peoples around the world. These are people who consider themselves to be the original inhabitants of their land. They usually trace their cultures back to a time prior to some sort of colonization. Indigenous peoples are called many things, "first nations," "the fourth world," "natives," "tribals," or "aboriginals," for example.

In this Worldview series, we explore some of the issues impacting indigenous peoples and trends in the global indigenous people's movement.

Hear about how indigenous communities deal with conflicts over resources, land, education, language, media, and identity in places ranging from Brazil to Botswana, from the Innu in Canada to the Ainu in Japan.

Audio Library

	Voices from Chiapas' Blue Mountains originally broadcast 8.22.03 Luz Ruiz — InterWorld Radio
	"Indigenismo" Identity in Latin America originally broadcast 8.22.03 Robert Castillo Sandoval — coordinator of Latin American Studies, Haverford College
	Indigenous Identity and Racism in Brazil originally broadcast 8.22.03 Jonathan Warren — director of Latin American Studies, University of Washington
	Indigenous Cinema-Part 1 originally broadcast 8.21.03 Milos Stehlik— Worldview film commentator
	Indigenous Cinema-Part 2 originally broadcast 8.22.03 Milos Stehlik— Worldview film commentator
	Indigenous Images in Global Media originally broadcast 12.20.02 Faye Ginsburg — professor of anthropology, New York University
	Chiapas Media Project originally broadcast 8.21.03 Alexandra Halkin — Chiapas Media Project
	The Innu in Canada originally broadcast 8.20.03 Colin Samson — author, A Way of Life That Does Not Exist: Canada and the Extinguishment of the Innu
	Globalization of Indigenous Politics originally broadcast 8.19.03 Ronald Niezen — author, The Origins of Indigenism
	Japan's Ainu Indigenous Group originally broadcast 8.19.03 Richard Siddle — author, Race, Resistance, and the Ainu of Japan
	Philippines: Indigenous Rights in Mindinao originally broadcast 2.2.01 Joey Lozano — former fellow, University of Chicago Human Rights Program
	The Maasai in Kenya originally broadcast 8.18.03 Joseph Ole Koyei — Maasai cultural ambassador For more information on the Maasai in Kenya, contact Joseph Ole Koyei.
	Bushmen Aren't Forever: The Gana and Gwi in Botswana originally broadcast 8.18.03 Miriam Ross — Survival International
	San in South Africa originally broadcast 12.27.01 Hugh Brody — anthropologist, writer, and filmmaker

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Related Links

Botswana Government's position on the Basarwa Relocation

Chiapas Media Project

Cultural Survival

Gana & Gwi Bushmen

Hugh Brody's column, "From the Edge"

The Indigenous News Page

Innu Nation

Native Web

Survival International

UN Guide for Indigenous Peoples

UN Working Group on Indigenous Rights