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	<title>Mother Earth Journal &#187; indigenous peoples</title>
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	<description>Mother Earth Journal &#124; Environmental journalism &#124; Terri Hansen reporting: Environment &#124; Science &#38;  Traditional Knowledge &#124; Climate, Sustainability &#38; Adaptation &#124; Environmental Health. For complete environmental coverage read This Week From Indian Country or visit Indian Country Today Media Network</description>
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		<title>Conserving Biodiversity Benefits World’s Impoverished Communities</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/01/29/conserving-biodiversity-benefits-worlds-impoverished-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/01/29/conserving-biodiversity-benefits-worlds-impoverished-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protecting land for biodiversity conservation delivers significant, life-sustaining services and income to the world's most impoverished people, yet conservation efforts and poverty alleviation efforts are at risk of failing, since this 'natural capital' is grossly undervalued in the global marketplace.
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		<title>Christmas reindeer mystery as world’s largest herd plummets</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/12/22/christmas-reindeer-mystery-as-worlds-largest-herd-plummets/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/12/22/christmas-reindeer-mystery-as-worlds-largest-herd-plummets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world's largest reindeer herd, which roams the vast tundra of Quebec and Labrador in eastern Canada has plummeted in size. The local indigenous people blame the spread of massive industrial projects in the area.]]></description>
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		<title>Heed Ecological Insights of Tribal Peoples in Global Decisions at the COP17</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/29/heed-ecological-knowledge-and-insights-of-tribal-peoples-in-global-decisions-at-un-cop17-climate-summit/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/29/heed-ecological-knowledge-and-insights-of-tribal-peoples-in-global-decisions-at-un-cop17-climate-summit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17) conference begins in Durban, South Africa, Indigenous advocacy group Survival International is calling for global decisions concerning climate change heed traditional ecological knowledge and insights of tribal peoples.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;End the Secrecy!&#8221; Says Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/21/end-the-secrecy-says-sarstoon-temash-institute-for-indigenous-management/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/21/end-the-secrecy-says-sarstoon-temash-institute-for-indigenous-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management Demands Explanation for US Oil Company’s Return to National Protected Land]]></description>
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		<title>Wikileaks Cables Expose Chevron Lobbied Ecuador to Kill $18 Billion Environmental Case</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/09/24/wikileaks-cables-expose-chevron-lobbied-ecuador-to-kill-18-billion-environmental-case/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/09/24/wikileaks-cables-expose-chevron-lobbied-ecuador-to-kill-18-billion-environmental-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environmental disasters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chevron engaged in a clandestine lobbying campaign of Ecuador's government to improperly shut down a historic environmental case brought by thousands of indigenous persons for contamination of the rain forest by the oil giant, ordered to pay $18.2 billion to clean up the damage, according to a series of cables written by U.S. government officials and released by Wikileaks.]]></description>
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		<title>Drug Traffickers Overrun Guard Post Set Up to Protect Uncontacted Amazon Indians</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/08/15/drug-traffickers-overrun-guard-post-set-up-to-protect-uncontacted-amazon-indians/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/08/15/drug-traffickers-overrun-guard-post-set-up-to-protect-uncontacted-amazon-indians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Brazilian guard post protecting Indians who have never had any contact with others and who were filmed for the first time from the air earlier this year has been over-run, and ransacked by heavily-armed suspected drug-traffickers.]]></description>
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		<title>Chemical Spraying Destroys Amazon Forest Uncontacted Indians Relied On</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/25/chemical-spraying-destroys-amazon-forest-that-uncontacted-indians-relied-on/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/25/chemical-spraying-destroys-amazon-forest-that-uncontacted-indians-relied-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environmental health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A large stretch of Amazon forest relied on by uncontacted Indians for their plant and animal foods was illegally destroyed with chemical defoliant sprayed from an airplane. The 178 hectare of dead trees was discovered by Brazil's environment agency.]]></description>
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		<title>Tour operators oppose human safaris</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/12/tour-operators-oppose-human-safaris/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/12/tour-operators-oppose-human-safaris/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Association of Tour Operators in India’s Andaman islands has come out in support of Survival’s call for tourists to stop using the illegal road that cuts through the forests of the recently contacted Jarawa tribe.]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting Mother Earth Gathering in North Dakota July 28-31</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/08/protecting-mother-earth-gathering-in-north-dakota-july-28-31/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/08/protecting-mother-earth-gathering-in-north-dakota-july-28-31/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Water, Energy, Climate, and the Importance of Health &#038; and Culture” theme fits the situation of Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation community hosts. An oil boom has created social, economic, environmental, and cultural changes for which they were unprepared. ]]></description>
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		<title>Fever. Climate Stories from Indigenous Communities</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/24/fever-and-conversations-with-the-earth-bring-climate-stories-from-indigenous-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/24/fever-and-conversations-with-the-earth-bring-climate-stories-from-indigenous-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adaptation │ mitigation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life Mosaic, and Conversations With the Earth make possible films produced by indigenous communities that describe modern day climate changes from their unique ancestral perspective. How they use age-old knowledge to meet the challenges of a climate in change should interest communities around the globe.]]></description>
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		<title>One of Amazon&#8217;s Last Nomadic Tribes Struck By Epidemic</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/24/one-of-amazons-last-nomadic-tribes-hit-by-epidemic/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/24/one-of-amazons-last-nomadic-tribes-hit-by-epidemic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An outbreak of respiratory disease struck one of the Amazon’s last nomadic tribes, which has already seen their numbers decimated by flu and malaria. Around 35 Nukak-Maku, including nine children, were admitted to a hospital well over capacity in the Colombian Amazon, leaving some in make-shift beds.]]></description>
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		<title>Penan Hunter-Gatherers Pushed From Rainforest to Make Way for Dam</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/15/penan-hunter-gatherers-pushed-from-rainforest-to-make-way-for-dam/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/15/penan-hunter-gatherers-pushed-from-rainforest-to-make-way-for-dam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Malaysian government is moving more than 1,000 Penan hunter-gatherers out of their rainforest home against their will to make way for the controversial Murum hydroelectric dam, the first in a series of twelve that will flood Penan and other indigenous villages.]]></description>
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		<title>Philanthropists and Indigenous Leaders Talk Solutions to World&#8217;s Pressing Issues</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/14/philanthropists-and-indigenous-leaders-talk-solutions-to-worlds-pressing-issues-at-ifip-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/14/philanthropists-and-indigenous-leaders-talk-solutions-to-worlds-pressing-issues-at-ifip-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Influential philanthropists and Indigenous leaders met last month at the tenth conference of the International Funders for Indigenous Peoples, and came up with innovative solutions based on thousands of years of ancestral knowledge to some of the world's most pressing problems.]]></description>
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		<title>Peru in shock move to abolish uncontacted tribe’s reserve</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/11/peru-in-shock-move-to-abolish-uncontacted-tribe%e2%80%99s-reserve/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/11/peru-in-shock-move-to-abolish-uncontacted-tribe%e2%80%99s-reserve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The survival of the uncontacted tribe whose images caused a worldwide sensation is jeopardized by the Peruvian governments' plans to abolish a reserve that protects their territory. Peru reversed their plan in early June. Their Culture Ministry has promised to protect the tribe's reserve.]]></description>
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		<title>Elwha Dams Power Off, Making Way to Restore Legendary Salmon Runs</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/02/elwha-dams-power-off-making-way-to-restore-legendary-salmon-runs/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/02/elwha-dams-power-off-making-way-to-restore-legendary-salmon-runs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a decades-long effort to restore a healthy, free-flowing Elwha River, the hydropower generators at the river's two dams, were turned off Wednesday in preparation for dam removal this September. The dams supplied hydroelectric power for nearly a century.]]></description>
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		<title>England Bars Tribunal Rep Investigating Child Trafficking Allegations Against Church and State</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/31/england-bars-tribunal-rep-investigating-child-trafficking-allegations-against-church-and-state/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/31/england-bars-tribunal-rep-investigating-child-trafficking-allegations-against-church-and-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 00:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State representative arriving in London to address a public rally against allegations of child trafficking by church and state was arrested and deported May 30. ITCCS said the move was intended to halt the tribunal's inquiry into the matter.]]></description>
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		<title>Rwanda Admits Using Force in Anti-Thatch Houses Campaign</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/30/rwandan-government-admits-using-force-in-anti-thatch-houses-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/30/rwandan-government-admits-using-force-in-anti-thatch-houses-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 05:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rwandan admits sometimes applying some force in their campaign to destroy all thatched roofed Batwa Pygmy homes after hundreds of Twitter users protested. Some of the country's most marginalized people are without homes. The Batwa, forced from their ancestral homes to create national parks free of humans, now live on the fringes of society. ]]></description>
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		<title>Oil Giant ConocoPhillips Pulls Out of Controversial Amazon Project</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/14/oil-giant-conocophillips-pulls-out-of-controversial-amazon-project/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/14/oil-giant-conocophillips-pulls-out-of-controversial-amazon-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 15:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global outrage over the risk oil companies pose to the lives of two uncontacted tribes in the northern Peruvian Amazon prompted the U.S. ConocoPhillips to pull out of the controversial oil block.]]></description>
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		<title>Indigenous Peoples of Africa the Focus of Second Congressional Human Rights Meeting</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/10/indigenous-peoples-of-africa-the-focus-of-second-congressional-human-rights-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/10/indigenous-peoples-of-africa-the-focus-of-second-congressional-human-rights-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 20:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second in a series of unprecedented meetings hosted by the U.S. Congressional Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission will focus solely on the rights of Indigenous Peoples of Africa, just as they emerge into the social consensus of several African states after their very existence was denied for decades. ]]></description>
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		<title>Brutal Attack on Endangered Tribe</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/06/brutal-attack-on-endangered-tribe/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/06/brutal-attack-on-endangered-tribe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 18:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man from the Jarawa tribe in India's Andaman Islands and one of the world's most endangered tribes was seriously wounded while trying to stop intruders intent on hunting his tribe's game. The police are treating his attack as attempted murder.]]></description>
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		<title>Pro Golfer Notah Begay III brings anti-diabetes and youth wellness message to 194 Native American schools with new technology</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/29/pro-golfer-notah-begay-iii-brings-anti-diabetes-and-youth-wellness-message-to-194-native-american-schools-with-new-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/29/pro-golfer-notah-begay-iii-brings-anti-diabetes-and-youth-wellness-message-to-194-native-american-schools-with-new-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four-time PGA Tour winner Notah Begay III is back in his hometown this weekend for a series of events that will reach out to 97 percent of all Native American students in the nation to sound the alarm about the growing epidemic of type 2 diabetes in Indian Country.]]></description>
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		<title>Pueblo of Jemez Leading Way to Renewable Future, and Realities of Relocating Alaska Native Villages</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/22/pueblo-of-jemez-leading-way-to-renewable-future-and-realities-of-relocating-alaska-native-villages/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/22/pueblo-of-jemez-leading-way-to-renewable-future-and-realities-of-relocating-alaska-native-villages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pueblo of Jemez undertakes several renewable energy projects, and an overview of the challenges faced by Alaska Native villages that need to relocate because of the impacts of climate change. ]]></description>
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		<title>Who Merits Wikipedia? Twice Deleted Native American Journalists Association Wants to Know</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/19/what-merits-inclusion-in-wikipedia-twice-deleted-native-american-journalists-association-wants-to-know/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/19/what-merits-inclusion-in-wikipedia-twice-deleted-native-american-journalists-association-wants-to-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia celebrated its tenth anniversary in January. That same month, Wikipedia administrators deleted the entry for the Native American Journalists Association. For the second time.]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the International Year of Forests, But Who Gets to Decide About Them?</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/19/its-the-international-year-of-forests-but-who-gets-to-decide-about-them/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/19/its-the-international-year-of-forests-but-who-gets-to-decide-about-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the havoc that deforestation is causing for biodiversity, the climate and the livelihoods of millions of forest-dependent people around the world, a critical question is, “Who gets to decide about forests?”]]></description>
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		<title>Borneo Tribe Denied Vote in Crucial Elections</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/13/borneo-tribe-denied-vote-in-crucial-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/13/borneo-tribe-denied-vote-in-crucial-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of Penan tribespeople won't vote in crucial elections in Sarawak, because they don't have hard to obtain identity cards.]]></description>
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		<title>Traditional Ecological Knowledge</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/10/traditional-ecological-knowledge/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/10/traditional-ecological-knowledge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 05:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talking with land-based peoples on the remote West Coast of Washington State, the highlands of the Cascadia region, at international conferences that draw people from around the world, and even by phone, to sources who have long lived with the land and rely on its resources, I developed an interest in their common theme: Traditional Ecological Knowledge. ]]></description>
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		<title>Rwandan ‘anti-thatch’ campaign leaves thousands of ‘Pygmies’ homeless</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/05/rwandan-anti-thatch-campaign-leaves-thousands-of-pygmies-homeless/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/05/rwandan-anti-thatch-campaign-leaves-thousands-of-pygmies-homeless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Rwandan government program to destroy all thatched roofs in the country is leaving thousands of Batwa ‘Pygmies’ homeless.]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Tribe Losing Fish, Vital to Diet and Culture to Dam Construction</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/29/amazon-tribe-losing-fish-vital-to-diet-and-culture-to-dam-construction/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/29/amazon-tribe-losing-fish-vital-to-diet-and-culture-to-dam-construction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dam construction in Brazil's Jurena river basin is decimating fish populations the fish eating Enawene Nawe tribe need for life. Last year's plunging fish populations forced a dam construction company to buy farmed fish to keep tribal members from starving.]]></description>
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		<title>Indian Country Today Media Network: Speaking ‘Frankly’ of Leadership</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/25/indian-country-today-media-network-speaking-%e2%80%98frankly%e2%80%99-of-leadership/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/25/indian-country-today-media-network-speaking-%e2%80%98frankly%e2%80%99-of-leadership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Billy was hailed a genuine leader one who has always placed the needs of the indigenous nations, the earth and her waterways, and the many species we are intimately linked to, above his own. As evidence of this is the unveiling of the Billy Frank Jr. Endowment for Salmon that will aid in the enhancement of salmon and their habitat indefinitely.

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		<title>Borneo tribes: 30-year regime &#8220;has destroyed everything&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/24/borneo-tribes-30-year-regime-has-destroyed-everything/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/24/borneo-tribes-30-year-regime-has-destroyed-everything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 30-year rule of Chief Minister Taib Mahmud has "raped’ their land," say the tribespeople in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo. It has destroyed their rainforests and brought "hardship and suffering."]]></description>
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