The Australian/ eniar
THE skeletal remains of up to 18 Aborigines, stolen by a Swedish anthropologist 90 years ago, will be returned to Australia this month in a landmark repatriation agreement. Aboriginal elders from Western Australia, Queensland, NS… more »
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by lorenz on Sep 1, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, religion cosmology, culture traditions, Us and Them, Saami, Arctic / Northern Regions
AP / Yahoo News
Nearly 400 years after the worst of the Norwegian witch trials ripped through the area, approximately 100 people have made their way to the small town of Vardoe, just over 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) from the North Pole, for norther… more »
by lorenz on Aug 29, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, religion cosmology, Latin- and Central America
RICHARD N. OSTLING, The Associated Press
The Missions Institute of New Tribes Mission specializes in evangelism among the 3,000 indigenous groups in the world’s remotest tracts, places that remain isolated from the outside world and thus untouched by… more »
by lorenz on Aug 26, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Native American, websites
Christian Science Monitor
In the 1830s, native Americans from the eastern half of the United States were being "relocated" to the West, while those already in the West were having their last experience with living in a land that was actually under the… more »
by lorenz on Aug 23, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, technology, culture traditions, internet
Telepolis
During the 4th conference on "Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication", Internet researchers from about 30 countries focused on the differences, the potential conflicts and cultural discrepancies in cyberspace understood as a… more »
by lorenz on Aug 20, 2004 in Latin- and Central America, language, Native American, persons and theories
The Guardian
The Piraha of the Amazon have almost legendary status in language research. They have no words at all for number. They use only only three words to count: one, two, many. To make things confusing, the words for one and two, in Piraha, are… more »
by lorenz on Aug 15, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, anthropology (general), history
The Globe and Mail
One hundred years ago, three Ainu couples, a lone male and two young girls travelled to the United States to take part in a living exhibit arranged for the crowds at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. They lived in a large thatched hu… more »
by lorenz on Jul 26, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, Saami, music, Arctic / Northern Regions
Nunatsiaq News
Nunavik performers had enthusiastic audiences at last week's Riddu Riddu festival in Arctic Norway, where attendance at the circumpolar arts, music and culture bash broke all previous records.
Some Sámi now consider Riddu Riddu to ha… more »
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