Tag: Indigenous people
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Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change and Traditional Knowledge
This discussion brings to the fore the perspectives of indigenous peoples and other key stakeholders on the ways forward to promoting traditional knowledge and explores pathways to innovations that can support the creation of indigenous led green enterprises and jobs. To learn more about ILO’s work on indigenous and tribal peoples, visit www.ilo.org/indigenous.
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Tattoos Represent Status, Spiritual Devotion Among Haida
The Leader Post delves into the age-old practice of tattooing by the Haida peoples: …the Haida practiced tattooing for generations before European contact. “The tattoo marks themselves were indicative of status, spiritual devotion and decoration,” the centre explains on its website. Individuals expressed their part in a social unit, a moiety, or a lineage through…
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK): An Interview With Dr. Michael Hutchins
Reposted from National Geographic blog: Posted by Jordan Carlton Schaul of University of Alaska on January 11, 2014 Inuit man eating narwhal (NGS) The following interview is my 12th in a serieswith my esteemed colleague Dr. Michael Hutchins. Michael recently joined the American Bird Conservancy, as the organization’s National Bird Smart Wind Campaign Coordinator. The distinguished ecologist has agreed to answer my…
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Native tribes’ traditional knowledge can help US adapt to climate change
New England’s Native tribes, whose sustainable ways of farming, forestry, hunting and land and water management were devastated by European colonists four centuries ago, can help modern America adapt to climate change. That’s the conclusion of more than 50 researchers at Dartmouth and elsewhere in a special issue of the journal Climatic Change. It is the…
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Message from WIPO Director General, Francis Gurry, on the occasion of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
GENEVA – Indigenous Peoples’ traditional knowledge (TK) and traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) embody significant innovation and creativity and contribute to the diversity and richness of the planet’s civilizations and cultures. They also contribute to the cultural identity, sustainable development and social cohesion of Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and, globally, to the conservation of the…
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Children of the Jaguar Documentary
Persevering over eight years, the Kichwa indigenous community of Sarayaku took their claims to the human rights system of the Organization of American States. In July of 2012, the Inter-American Court came down on the side of the community. The Court declared the Ecuadorian government guilty of perpetrating rights violations, having tried to force the…
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