Michael Murphy | Michael Murphy

10 Feb Indigenous group kicks out oil company: Government and company mutually agree to end contract (Latin American Press)

Posted at 17:09h in News, Posts

The Sarayaku Kichwa indigenous group in Ecuador´s Amazon jungle saw a happy ending to its 14-year struggle to end two oil giants´ presence on its land. In December, Argentina´s Compañía General de Combustibles, a subsidiary of US oil company Chevron, and Burlington Resources, of the...

09 Feb Kahnawake band council meddles in people’s love lives, critics charge: Mohawk bloodline is at stake, spokesperson says (The Gazette)

Posted at 17:14h in News, Posts

Love is a victim of the initiative by Kahnawake authorities to expel some non-natives from the Montreal-area reserve, say critics of the move within the local Mohawk community who call it heartless and misguided. “The real crux of the issue is whether a Mohawk can...

06 Feb Aboriginal groups divided on whether to support Olympics: 80 of B.C.’s 203 bands refuse to participate because government and Vanoc ignore ‘horrific levels of poverty,’ their leader says (The Vancouver Sun)

Posted at 17:17h in News, Posts

The head of the Four Host First Nations, Tewanee Joseph, has been criss-crossing the country since 2003 selling the Olympics to first nations communities. He's achieved signed agreements with more than a dozen provincial and national aboriginal groups setting out their involvement with the 2010...

Author: Michael Murphy

10 Feb Indigenous group kicks out oil company: Government and company mutually agree to end contract (Latin American Press)

09 Feb Kahnawake band council meddles in people’s love lives, critics charge: Mohawk bloodline is at stake, spokesperson says (The Gazette)

06 Feb Aboriginal groups divided on whether to support Olympics: 80 of B.C.’s 203 bands refuse to participate because government and Vanoc ignore ‘horrific levels of poverty,’ their leader says (The Vancouver Sun)