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The history of Native Guyana
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The history in general of Native Americans
in the Caribbean
- National Report on Indigenous Peoples and
development
- United Nations Development Programme, Country Office:
Guyana. Mr. Jorg Vereecke, UNDP - Associate Expert on
Indigenous People, December 1994. Indicators and profile
of the Native Americans of Guyana. Living conditions
in the nine regions of Guyana. With the declining
economical situation during the lost decade, Guyana
could no longer upheld its services for its aboriginal
population. The set of ethical factors found in the
Earth Charter, ILO-convention. Partnerships.
Bibliography.
- Coal Mining: Urgent Action Alert
- From the Forest Peoples Programme, Urgent Action Alert, 12
November 1997. The Amerindian Peoples Association and the
leaders of the Macusi, Wapisiana and Wai Wai communities
of Southern Guyana are requesting international support
to stop the granting of two large mining concessions to
Canadian company, Vannessa Ventures Ltd.
- Indigenous Peoples and Maroons in French
Guiana Demand Land Rights in Proposed National Park
- From the Forest Peoples Programme, 7 September 1998. At a
meeting held in the Wayana village of Twenke in French
Guiana, Indigenous peoples and Maroons met to discuss,
among others, the recognition of their rights in connection
with the proposed establishment of a National Park. The
resolutions of the meeting issued by the Federation of
Amerindian Organisations of French Guiana (FOAG) are
here reproduced.
- Amerindians March For Land
- By Bert Wilkinson, IPS, 30 August 1999. 10,000
Amerindians—about a fifth of their number—from
all of the country's nine tribes will embark on a
1,000-kilometre march from Guyana's southernmost tip
to Georgetown in a show of disgust at the way authorities
have been dealing with the distribution of land to
them.
- APA wants equal, full participation in Amerindian
Act review
- The Guyana Chronicle, 20 January
2002. The Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) is calling
for
qual and full participation
in the review of the
Amerindian Act. The APA made this call during its Sixth
General Assembly held at Mainstay/Whyaka, Essequibo Coast,
Region Two (Pomeroon/Supenaam), where more than 93
representatives from all over the country participated.
