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Schools to teach Aboriginal culture (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Indigenous culture will be embedded in the new national school curriculum under a proposal being considered by leading educators. English, science, history and other disciplines will contain an indigenous perspective on issues ranging from the portrayal of British colonisation to the Northern Territory intervention...

27 November, 2009

Bolivia election: Cocaine casts shadow on campaign (BBC)

Many around the world see the coca leaf - the raw ingredient of cocaine - as a source of misery. For them, it stands for crack, cocaine and all the inherent evils of the illegal drugs. But for indigenous Bolivians, the leaf is an intrinsic...

22 November, 2009

Nisga’a take leap into economics of real estate: Historic land use law will allow members of aboriginal community to own their own piece of treaty land (The Globe and Mail)

After decades of fighting for recognition of title, the Nisga'a government in northwestern British Columbia has passed a law allowing its citizens to own – and sell – Nisga'a lands. “This is an exciting world we are about to enter, and we are doing this...

19 November, 2009