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15 Feb Native university pulled back from brink (The Globe and Mail)

Posted at 17:05h in News, Posts

Aboriginal and government leaders are pulling Saskatchewan's one-of-a-kind aboriginal university back from the brink one week after its closing appeared imminent. The provincial Advanced Education Minister spent Family Day in Vancouver discussing ways of salvaging the beleaguered First Nations University of Canada with federal Indian...

11 Feb Who will own the foreshore? (The New Zealand Herald)

Posted at 17:07h in News, Posts

Neither the Government nor Maori would own the nation's beaches under a proposal to settle the dispute over laws governing the foreshore and seabed. The proposal is one of several on the table, the Government told the Iwi Leaders Forum at Waitangi. It is understood...

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...