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23.4 (Winter 1999) Visions of the Future: The Prospect for Reconciliation

What Chance For Self-Determination? Farmers and foragers in the forests of northeastern Democratic of Congo

WHAT CHANCE FOR SELF-DETERMINATION? Farmers and foragers in the forests of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo

The peace brokered by retired President Nelson Mandela has held for over 10 years, and the Federation of Congo States has the fastest growing economy in Central Africa. The three states in the federation -- Haut-Congo, Katanga, and Bas-Congo -- with technical assistance from the United Nations -- established transparent and accountable national governments where power is shared amongst independent legislative, executive and judicial branches.

Visions of the Future: The Prospect for Reconciliation

Reconciliation, like self-determination, is a buzz word in Indigenous circles. The co-existence of different cultures within a single, modern pluriethnic state, requires agreed upon understandings of the meanings of these terms - but this poses a problem for those Indigenous peoples who have adopted the rhetoric of self-determination as it applies in international law. In a western political tradition, self-determination is a concept without an ethnic dimension. It is about land and not people.

To Contact or Not? The Jarwas Of The Andaman Islands

A cluster of 306 islands in the Bay of Bengal makes up India's territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Plane loads of tourists come to the airport at Port Blair to see the tropical rain forests and coral reefs in a place that is rapidly becoming the ecotourism hotspot of India. As the tourists disembark they pass pictures showing a historical prison that once housed many Indian freedom fighters. The display evokes a sense of the crucial role this island played in India's colonial history.

The Indigenous People of the Caribbean

Sponsored by the Florida Museum of Natural History and emerging from a conference organized by the Virgin Islands Humanities Council, this volume brings together the researchers from three subdisciplines under one cover: archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnology. It includes the work of an extraordinary range of specialists and provides a well-rounded introduction to the history of indigenous peoples in the Caribbean.

Plan de Vida - an Indigenous initiative for cultural survival

Modernity, Ethnicity and Development from the `Outside'

Indigenous peoples are consistently the objects of development politics. Development policies directed at Indigenous societies all too frequently stress the importance of the peoples giving up their culture in order to `develop' and not stand in the way of national modernization efforts. Implicit in such a notion of development is the idea that ethnicity and modernity cannot be intertwined.

Nowadays, however it is widely accepted that indeed they can be.

Our Land, Our Life, Our Culture: The Indigenous Movement In Guyana

One of the strategies which Indigenous peoples have employed effectively to bind people together politically is a strategy which asks that people imagine a future, that they rise above present day situations which are generally depressing, dream a new dream and set a new vision. The confidence of knowing that we have survived and can only go forward provides some impetus to a process of envisioning.

Orang Asli Self-Determination and the Control of Resources

Orang Asli is the collective term for the 19 sub-groups of `first peoples' in Peninsular Malaysia. Numbering 105,000 in 1997, or a mere 0.5 per cent of the Malaysian population, the Orang Asli are largely forest or agriculture based, although several individuals have achieved levels of educational and economic success comparable to those of the dominant population.

Mohawk Warrior Leader, Ronald 'Lasagna' Cross

Ronald `Lasagna' Cross died on November 1, 1999, at age 41, from a fatal heart attack. Cross is best known for his role and involvement in the Oka Crisis of 1990 in Quebec, Canada. As a high profile member of the Mohawk Warrior Society, Cross was the center point of the 1990 standoff that occurred between the Mohawks from Kanehsatake and the Quebec provincial police. The confrontation was a result of the Mayor of Oka's desire to expand the town's golf course. This expansion would result in golfers `teeing off' right over Mohawk burial grounds.

Into the Life of the Nation: Use and Self-Determination among Traditional Pume Hunter-Gatherers in Venezuela

Into the Life of the Nation: Use and Self-Determination among Traditional Pumé Hunter-Gatherers in Venezuela

Introduction

People who live by hunting and gathering rely on a substantial land base for food, raw materials, and environmental information. The Pumé of Venezuela are intimately adapted to the savannas they inhabit. Their culture, from religion to social organization, is deeply rooted in their relationship with their environment. The future of traditional peoples depends on assuring them some control over their homelands and rights of land tenure.

Health, Disease and Survival: A Biomedical and genetic Analysis of the Orang Asli of Malaysia

Adela Baer's new title on the Orang Asli: Health, Disease and Survival: A Biomedical and Genetic Analysis of the Orang Asli of Malaysia, is a welcome addition to a field that is still plagued by glaring data gaps and misconceptions. The book aims to provide a summary of everything that is known, and what still needs to be known, about Orang Asli health, using a biomedical and sociocultural approach. It also shows how an understanding of Orang Asli health, and often its genetic basis, is vital to their future welfare.

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