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Taino Leaders speak out to halt desecration at Ponce site PO29, Puerto Rico, November 2, 2007 (PDF 158K)

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Help still needed to protect sacred Medicine Lake Highlands in Northern California, sample support letter enclosed, November 17, 2005

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San Francisco Peaks

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Shell Mounds

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Sign on to Petition to Stop Desecration of Sacred Sites and Burial Sites, Support NAGRPA, August 11, 2006

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ACTION ALERT June 14th, 2006 Support the Tohono O’odham Indigenous Peoples of Sonora Mexico Stop the Proposed CEGIR Hazardous Waste Dump Near Quitovac! (PDF 26K)

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Statement of Traditional O’odham Leaders of the O’odham Territories Cu:Wi I-gersk Communities, Sonora, Mexico- English (PDF 19K)

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Statement of Traditional O’odham Leaders of the O’odham Territories Cu:Wi I-gersk Communities, Sonora, Mexico- Espanol (PDF 240K)

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Action Alert, sign petition to protect Bear Butte sacred site

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Guatemala

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Conferencia del CITI en su 31º Aniversario, Nación Cree Ermineskin, patrocinada por la Confederación de Primeras Naciones del 6º Tratado, Alberta, Canadá, de 3 a 7 de agosto del 2005, Resolución Sobre Los Lugares Sagrados en Guatemala presentado por la Conferencia Nacional de Ministros de La Espiritualidad Maya de Guatemala Oxlajuj Ajpop (PDF 100K)

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ANWR

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61st session, UN Commission on Human Rights, March 14 - April 22, 2005, IITC Intervention, Item 11: Civil and Political Rights; detentions and religious intolerance (PDF 128K)

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Urgent: Ancestors of the Elem Band of Southeastern Pomo Tribe. Rattlesnake Island, Northern California call for help, January 19, 2005, Public Meeting January 27th, 2005 (PDF 67.4K)

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IITC Rattlesnake Island Support letter, January 10th, 2005 (PDF 96.5K)

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Press information for immediate release (22nd November 2004) Indigenous Peoples repudiate press report (PDF 79.1K)

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Urgent Action to Stop Peabody Coal mining expansion at Black Mesa, due September 15, 2004 (PDF 30.5K)

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California Tribes near landmark win to protect sacred lands August 19, 2004

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INTERNATIONAL INDIAN TREATY COUNCIL, 30th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, July 8 - 11, 2004 Resolution on Treaties, Land Rights and Sovereignty (PDF)

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On Line Petition to US Congress: Protect Sacred Pipestone

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INTERNATIONAL INDIAN TREATY COUNCIL, 30th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE AJUMAWI TERRITORY, FALLS RIVER MILLS, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA July 8 - 11, 2004-Resolution on the Protection of Sacred Places, Cultural and Spiritual Rights (PDF)

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Immediate Alert on Proposed Mining Destruction of 1700 Sacred Sites in North Dakota

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THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' DECLARATION TO THE WORLD PARKS CONGRESS, DURBAN SOUTH AFRICA SEPTEMBER 6-7 2003

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LA DECLARACIÓN DE LOS PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS PARA EL CONGRESO MUNDIAL DE PARQUES, DURBAN, SUDAFRICA, 6 -7 DE SEPTIEMBRE, 2003

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IITC Case study for CBD COPS 7, Bio-diversity and Sacred Sites, Spirit Mountain Montana, James Main Sr., White Clay Society (PDF)

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Medicine Lake

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Cave Rock California

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Bear Butte

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Petroglyphs New Mexico

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United Nations Commission on Human Rights Sixtieth Session, March 15-April 23, 2004 Written intervention by the International Indian Treaty Council, Agenda item 11: Civil and Political Rights, a) Detention; and e)Religious Intolerance (PDF)

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Summit on Consultation Protocols to Protect Native American Sacred Places, November 14 - 16, 2003, New Mexico (PDF)

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Calvert Asset Management Company Shareholder Resolution to Calpine Corporation

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IITC written interventions to the Commission on Human Rights, 2003, Civil and Political Rights including Religious Intolerance

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IITC written interventions to the Commission on Human Rights, 2003, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

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IITC written interventions to the Commission on Human Rights, 2003, Right to Development

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Report on United States visit by Mr. Abdelfattah Amor, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Elimination of Religious Intolerance, 1999

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Agenda, Summit on Consultation Protocols to Protect Native American Sacred Places, November 14 - 16, 2003, New Mexico (PDF)

Action Alerts /

Acciones Urgentes:

News Release: Canadian Parliament Calls for Implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, April 9, 2008 (PDF 51K)

IITC files urgent action with United Nations for Indigenous Peoples of Maluku, June 6th 2008 and post in Urgent/Urgente and in UN Human Rights 2008 (PDF 79K)

The Ngäbe Indigenous peoples of Panama request urgent international support, March 31st 2008

Solicitud de ayuda internacional del pueblo Ngobe de charco la pava Urgente, 31 marzo, 2008

IITC Urgent Action Communication to the United Nations Human Rights System: Raids and arrests against Maori by the New Zealand government, October 17th, 2007 (PDF 48K)

March 7th, 2008: United Nations Body Expresses Concerns about Racism in the United States, Calls for the US to apply the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (PDF)

 

Important Updates

Noticias al Dia:

34th Annual Treaty Conference, Chimaltenango Guatemala June 19 – 22, 2008, Conference Resolutions/Resoluciones de la Conferencia

Nibutani Declaration of Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Peoples Summit in Ainu Mosir (July 1-4), Hokkaido Japan, addressing the G-8 Summit (PDF 180K)

Conferencia de CITI de 2008 en Guatemala, nueva informacion para participantes

IITC 2008 Conference in Guatemala, new information for participants

UNPFII 7th Session, April 21st - May 2nd 2008, Interventions and Statements

Human Rights Council, 8th session, 2 – 18 June

2008 International Indian Treaty Conference, Guatemala

SYMPOSIUM ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES” Monday April 21st, 2008, during UNPFII7 (PDF 555K)

Opening Statement of the Indigenous Caucus, 11th Meeting of Negotiations in the Quest for Points of Consensus, Organization of American States April 14th, 2008

Declaración de Apertura del Conclave de los Pueblos Indígenas XI Reunión de Negociaciones para la Búsqueda de Puntos de Consensos Organización de los Estados Americanos 14 de abril de 2008

Indigenous Peoples' Caucus, UN Permanent Forum on April 19th & 20th , 2008 (PDF 90K)

Web link for Longest Walk 2

IITC Human Rights Forum” may 9th 2008, Southern Illinois University (PDF 244K)

NEW! IITC Power point: “Indigenous Peoples’ Advocacy for a Rights and Culturally-based Approach to Food Security”, April 3, 2008 (9.4 MB PowerPoint Presentation)

Treaty Conferences/2008 Guatemala, “Provisional Conference Agenda” (PDF 28K)

The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaties and the Right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent: The Framework For a New Mechanism for Reparations, Restitution and Redress, submitted by the IITC to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Seventh Session (UNPFII7) (PDF 80K)

NEW save the dates, 34th Anniversary Treaty Conference, Chimaltenango Guatemala, June 19th – 22nd 2008 (PDF 448K)

Aparte las fechas, Asamblea Anual XXXIV del Consejo Internacional de Tratados Indios junio 19 a 22 de 2008, Chimaltenango, Guatemala (PDF 138K)

Report of the North America Preparatory meeting for UNPFII7, Vancouver Canada, February 22nd and 23rd 2008 (PDF 168K)

Hawaiian Land Rights decision by Hawaiian Supreme Court, Nation of Hawaii calls upon Legislature to "Cease and Desist", February 8, 2008

Indigenous Shadow Report to UN CERD highlights Racism by United States, February 5th 2008

Peoples’ Shadow Report to the CERD on the United States submitted by IITC January 2008 (PDF 400 KB)

New IITC Brochure

33rd annual Alcatraz Sunrise Gathering, November 22nd 2007 (PDF 209K)

FINAL REPORT FROM THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ BORDER SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS II SAN XAVIER DISTRICT TOHONO O’ODHAM NATION NOVEMBER 7-10, 2007

Live Web Casts from the Indigenous Peoples’ Border Summit II, San Xavier, Arizona November 7 – 10, 2007

PUBLIC FORUM, Local Indigenous Environmental and Sacred Sites Issues, Saturday, November 17 U of A College of Law, Tucson AZ

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food to UN Human Rights Council and General Assembly , May 2007 (see page 44 on Indigenous Peoples in California and Alaska, USA) PDF 243K

Alberta Chiefs of Treaty 6, 7 & 8 Express Disappointment Re: Canadian Federal Government "Throne Speech", October 19th 2007 (PDF 50K)

AGROQUIMICOS: LA AMENAZA A NUESTRA SALUD COMUNITARIA Y AL MEDIO AMBIENTE/ Pesticides: The Threat to our Community Health and the Environment, AHOME, SINALOA, Mexico, Octubre 26 - 28 2007, October 26 – 28, 2007 (PSD 52K)

IITC Training Manual for filing “Shadow Reports” for the review of the United States by the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), October 17th, 2007 (PDF 578K)

IITC Human Rights Training Novmeber 8th 2007, during the Indigenous Peoples’ Border Rights Summitt II, San Xavier Arizona! (PDF 79K)

UN Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples adopted by the UN General Assembly September 13th, 2007!

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as adopted by the UN General Assembly September 13th 2007 (PDF 56k)

Declaracion de las Naciones Unidas sobre los derechos de los Pueblos Indigenas, adoptada por la Asemblea General el 13 de septiembre de 2007 (PDF 60K) 

IITC Statement on the Adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, September 16th 2007 (PDF 200K)

US Statement against the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, September 13th 2007 (PDF 53K)

CSD 15th session, 2007, April 30 - May 11, 2007

Link for the COMMITTEE FOR THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, Seventieth session, 19 February – 9 March 2007,  Concluding observations re: CANADA/ COMITÉ PARA LA ELIMINACIÓN DE LA DISCRIMINACIÓN RACIAL, Septuagésimo período de sesiones, 19 de febrero – 9 de marzo de 2007,  Observaciones finales sobre CANADA

Appointment of Indigenous UNPFII members (2008-2010) announced, April 20, 2007

Treaty Council News Winter 2007 (PDF 1MB)

IITC Submission to the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights for her study on the Human Right to Water, April 15th, 2007 (PDF 136k)

Pesticides are Poison” booklet now available online

Los Plaguicidas son Venenos” manual ahora disponible en internet

UN Web page, Indigenous Peoples and Treaties, the UN Treaty Study Expert Seminars