MEDIA NOTES
In June 2007, the UN Chronicle published a special issue on Climate change available through: www.un.og/chronicle.
María Isabel Manzur, Georgina Catacora, Maria Isabel Carcamo, Elizabeth Bravo and Miguel Altieri, Latin America The Transgenis of a Content: A critical View of an Uncontrolled Expansion, in Spanish, is a collection of essays about the state of the art of transgenic crops in most Latin American countries, documenting how the expansion of these crops has been achieved, particularly soybeans and corn. The book reveals the environmental and socioeconomic impacts that this expansion has resulted in a continent, which has the greatest surface area of transgenic crops in the world, but ironically, most agrobiodiversity. Most Latin American governments have promoted agricultural policies based on the authorization of GMOs, they have developed limited and incomplete regulations that are not attached to the principle of precaution and serve to facilitate rather than regulate seriously the introduction of this technology. Moreover, research on ecological impacts and health is almost nil in the region. The book also addresses the issue of biofuels and how the modern biotechnology industry is using the current energy fever to spread their transgenic seeds in Latin American countries. The development of this material meets the need to disseminate and create awareness on the situation of transgenic crops in Latin America. The book includes a profile of each country in a common format and an overview of the region, noting the difficulties and future trends. The 110 page volume is available as a PDF file, or in print for the cost of shipping, from María Isabel Manzur, mimanzur@gmail.com.
Honor the Earth, Intrtribal Council on Public Utilities, Indigenous Environmental Network and the International Treaty Council, Energy Justice in Native America: A Policy Paper for Consideration by the Obama Administration and th 111th Congress can be downloaded as a PDF from th International Treaty Council: http://www.treatycouncil.org.
Earth Peoples and its allies produced a booklet Indigenous People’s Guide: False Solutions to Climate Change, available from Earth Peoples at: http://eartpeoples/org/blog/?page_id=296.
Offerings from the University of Oklahoma Pres include: Jeff Corntassel and R.C. Witmer III, Forced Federalism: Challenges to Indigenous Nations (251 pp. for $34.95); Michael Lovegrove, A Nation in Transition: Douglas Henry Johnston and the Chickasaws, 1898-1939 ($24.95); Bill Anoatubby, Jeannie Barbour, Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham, David G. Fitzgerald, Linda Hogan Chickasaw: Unconquered and Unconquerable ($34.95); Richard Green, Chickasaw Lives: Volume Two: Profiles and Oral Histories ($24.95); David G. Fitzgerald and Phillip Carroll Morgan, Chickasaw Renaissance ($34.95); Devon Abbott Mihesuah, Choctaw Crime and Punishment, 1884-1907 ($32.95); Blue Clark and Indian Tribes of Oklahoma: A Guide ($29.95); Diane Glancy, Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears ($14.95); Susan M. Colby, Sacagawea’s Child:The Life and Times of Jean-Baptiste (Pomp) Charbonneau ($24.95); Dan McGovern, The Campo Indian Landfill War: The Search for Gold in California’s Garbage ($24.95); and Robert S. Grumet and Daniel K. Richter, The Munsee Indians: A History ($45.00), all. plus $5 for first item, $1.50 for each additional, shipping, from the University of Oklahoma Press, Attn: Order Department, 2800 Venture Drive, Norman, OK 73069-8218 (800)627-7377, customerservice@oupress.com, http://www.oupress.com/.
Waziyatawin, Ph.D., What Does Justice Look Like? The Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland is 200 pp for $18 from Living Justice Press, 2093 Juliet Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105 (651)695-1008, ljpress@aol.com, http://www.livingjusticepress.org.
Douglas M. George-Kanentiio, Iroquois on Fire: A Voice from the Mohawk Nation was published in November in is available for $16.95 from Amazon.com.
Brian C. Hosmer, American Indians in the Marketplace: Persistence and Innovation Among the Menominees abnd Metlakatlans, 1870-1920 is 312 pp. for $19.95 paper, plus $4 for the first item, and $1 each additional, shipping, from University Press of Kansas, 2502 Westbroke Circle, Lawrance, KS 66045, (785)864-4154, upkorders@uk.edu, http://www.kansaspress.ku,edu.
David Martinez, Dakota Philosopher: Charles Eastman and American Indian Thought is published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.
The offerings of the University of Alaska Press include: Tom Lowenstein, Ultimate Americans: Point Hope Alaska, 1826-1909 (384 pp. for $49.95 cloth); Lucien M. Turner, Ray L. Hudson, Ed., An Aleutian Ethnography (256 pp. for $45 cloth); Emily Ivanoff Brown (Ticasuk), Qayaq, the Medicine Man (88 pp. for $19.95 paper); and Sonia Luehrmannm, Alutiiq Villages Under Russian and U.S. Rule (221 pp. for $19.95 paper), all plus $5 for first item, $1 for each additional, from Chicago Distribution Center, 11030 S. Langley Ave., Chicago, IL 60628 (800)621-2736, pubnet@202-5280, www.uaf.edu/uapress.
University of Arizona Press listings include: Marianne O. Nielson and Robert Silverman, Eds., Criminal Justice in Native America: Native Americans on Both Sides of the Law (256 pp. for $34.95 paper); Barbara Perry, Silent Victims: Hate Crimes Against Native Americans (126 pp. for $29.95 paper); Kristin T. Ruppel, Unearthing Indian Land: Living with the Legacy of allotment (240 pp. for $45 paper); Jennifer McLerran, A New Deal In Native Art: Indian Art and Federal Policy, 1933-2943 (320 pp. for $59.95 cloth); Paul V. Kroskrity and Margaret C. Field, Native American Language Ideologies: Beliefs, Practices, and Struggles in Indian Country (336 pp. for $49.95 cloth); Kirstin C. Erickson, Yaqui Homeland and Homeplace: The Everyday Production of Ethnic Identity 208 pp. for $24,95 paper, $50 cloth); Kevin J. Vaughn, The Ancient Andean Village: Marcaya Prehispanic Nasca (208 pp. for $50 cloth) , all from the University of Arizona Press, 355 S. Euclid Ave., Suite 103, Tucson, AZ 85701, phone/fax (800) 426-3797, www.upress.arizona.edu.
Recent offerings from the University of New Mexico Press include: Fred Harris, Does People Do It?: A Memoir by the former Oklahoma Senator and husband of Americans for Indian Opportunity founder, LaDonna Harris (Comanche), including work in Indian affairs, and Jace Weaver, Craig S. Womack, and Robert Warrior. American Indian Literary Nationalism (272 pp., $19.95 paper), all, plus $5 for first item, $1 for each additional, from University of Nebraska Press, 1111 Lincoln Mall, Lincoln, NE 68588 (800)755-1105, pressmail@uni.edu, www.nebraskapress.unl.edu.
Books from the University of Chicago include: Klaus Frantz, Indian Reservations in the United States: Territory, Sovereignty and Socio Economic Change (539 pp, for $27.50 paper); Justin B. Richland, Arguing with Tradition: The Language of Law In Hopi Tribal Court (176 pp. for $16 paper), plus $5 for first item, $1 for each additional, shipping, from University of Chicago Press, Distribution Center, 11030 S. Langley Ave., Chicago, IL 60628 (773)702-7700, www.press.chicago.edu.
The 2000-2005 opinions of the Supreme Court of The Navajo Nation, fully indexed and digested, Volume 8 of the court opinions, and the 7 earlier volumes, are available from www.navajocourts.org, or contact Benji Bates, Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation, P.O. Box 520, Window Rock, AZ 86515 (928)871-7010, benjibates@navajo.org.
Karen Coody Cooper, Spirited Encounters: American Indians Protest Museum Policies and Practices is 224 pp. for $27.95 paper, $80 cloth, from AltaMira Press: http://www.altamirapress.com.
Elizabeth Peterson, Tribal Libraries in the United States: A Directory of American Indian and Alaska Native Facilities, is published by McFarland and Co.
P. Bates, M. Chiba, S. Kube & D. Nakashima, Ed., Learning and Knowing in Indigenous Societies Today is 128 pp. from UNESCO, in Paris, to order contact “links@unesco.org”
Mel Gray, John Coates and Michael Yellow Bird, Eds., Indigenous Social Work Around the World: Towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice is 339 pp. from Ashgate Publishing Co.m Suite 420, 101 Cherry St., Burlington, VT 05401, www.ashgate.com.
Boyce Richardson, Forward by Winona LaDuke, Strangers Devour the Land, discussing the long struggle of the Cree of James Bay in Northern Quebec to defend their traditional territories, is 376 pp. for $25 paper from Chelsea Green Publishing, P.O. Box 428,, 85 N. Main St., Suite 120, White River Junction, VT 05001 (800)639-4099, chelseagreen.com.
John Gibler, Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt is $16.95. available from City Lights Publishers: http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100093700.
The Objectives, Program, and related documents of the Asia Summit on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples, February 24-27, 2009, in Bali, Indonesia are available to download in .pdf from the TEBTEBBA web site at: http://www.tebtebba.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47:asia-summit-on-climate-change-and-indigenous-peoples&catid=74:asia-summit-on-indigenous-peoples-and-cc&Itemid=58, as follows: Plenary Inputs: “Overview of Climate Change” – Ms. Joji Carino, Tebtebba; “State of Negotiations at and Implementation of the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol: Key Issued Relevant to Indigenous Peoples” – Ms. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Tebtebba and Chairperson, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Bilateral and Multilateral Initiatives on Climate Change: “Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: Challenges and Opportunities” – Ms. Chandra Roy, UNDP – Regional Initiatives on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Development in the Asia-Pacific (RIPP); “The UN-REDD Programme and an introduction to ‘REDD’” – Mr. Tomo Uno, on behalf of FAO, UNDP & UNEP; “Norwegian International Climate and Forest Initiative” – Ms. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Chairperson, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. World Bank: “World Bank Initiative: Direct Engagement with Forests People in Forests and Climate Change Operations” – Ms. Mi Hyun Miriam Bae, Social Development Department, The World Bank; “Strengthening Participation of Indigenous Peoples and Forests People in World Bank Climate Change Programs” – Mr. James Warren Evans, Director, Environment Department, The World Bank. Country Presentations of the Researches on Local Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change: “Indonesia – Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in North Lombok, Indonesia” – Research undertaken by AMAN and presented by Mr. Abdon Nababan, AMAN; Malaysia – “Interactions between Global Climate Change and Traditional Lifestyle Initiatives of the Indigenous Peoples of Malaysia: A Bidayuh-Jagoi case study” – Research undertaken by JOAS and presented by Ms. Jen Rubis, JOAS; Philippines – “Indigenous Peoples’ Local Mitigation and Adaption Measures to Climate Change: The Case of the Ikalahans and Tagbanua of the Philippines” – Research undertaken by Tebtebba and presented by Ms. Helen Magata, Tebtebba; Thailand – “Climate Politics: Rotational Farming and Smog Crisis in the North of Thailand;” Vietnam – “Climate change: Ha Giang, Vietnam adapting to Climate Change” – Research undertaken by Ha Giang People’s Committee; Burma – “IPs’ Local Mitigation and Adaptation in Myanmar: Case Study in Hnair Lawn Village in Chin State” – Research output presented by Ms. Afia Biak Hta Dim; Bangladesh – “Indigenous Peoples’ Mitigation and Adaptation: The Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh” – Research undertaken by Maleya Foundation and presented by Ms. Chandra Roy; Nepal – “Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in Nepal;” Cambodia – “Development Project and Climate Change Impact to Indigenous People, Cambodia” – Presented by Mr. Nok Ven, CIYA; Taiwan – “Climate Change Mitigation in Taiwan” – Presented by Mr. Yapasuyongu, ATIPP. Workshop Results: “Climate Change, Indigenous Women and Children;” “Climate Change, Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge, including Reducing Emissions for Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD);” “Climate Change, Human Rights and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP);” “Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples’ Self-Determined Development.” “Strategies and the Roadmap to Copenhagen and Beyond;” “Joint Statement of Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations and NGOs on the HRC Report on Climate Change and Human Rights;” “Report of the Asia Summit on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples;” and
Participant’s List.
UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger is at http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?pg=00206. For a detailed cautionary note about the usefulness of the UNESCO Atlas, see Peter K. Austin’s comments. He is the Marit Rausing chair in field linguistics and director of linguistics at SOAS in the UK: http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/elac/2009/02/unescos_atlas_of_the_worlds_la_1.ht
The Chiapas Media Project/Promedios new bi-national advocacy campaign: Fair Food Across Borders (FFAB), focuses on the human rights abuses faced by migrant farm workers in Mexico who harvest many of the fruits and vegetables eaten in the US. The centerpiece of the FFAB campaign is the new CMP/Promedios video, Paying the Price: Migrant Workers in the Toxic Fields of Sinaloa, For further information, e-mail the Chiapas Media Project/Promedios at info@fairfoodab.org.
Denise Zmekhol, Director, Children of the Amazon travels deep into the Amazon in search of Surui and Negarote children the director photographed 15 years earlier and depicts these peoples confronting massive changes brought by roads, logging and climate change. The 72 minute film is available in English, Portugese and Mondd with English subtitles in DVD for $49.95 from California Newsreel/Resolution, Order Department, P.O. Box 2284, South Burlington, VT 05407 (877)811-7495, www.newsreel.org.
Survival International film about uncontacted tribes in Paraguay, highlighting the threats to the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode, may be viewed in Spanish by going to http://www.survival-international.org/news/3968.
Launch of the International Parliamentarians for West Papua, an indigenous movement for self-determination and independence, a film by Claudio von Planta www.vonplanta.net, with the support of the Free West Papua Campaign UK. For more information go to: www.FreeWestPapua.org, www.FreeWestPapua.de or www.IPWP.org. Related links are: http://www.fpcn-global.org/content/Launch-International-Parliamentarians-West-Papua, http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2829810907399368577. For web streaming: http://rains2.europe.fiber5.com/rains2/ipwp_launch_08.flv, http://sub.spc.org/fpcn/video/flv/ipwp_launch_08.flv, or
http://sub.spc.org/fpcn/video/mpg/ipwp_launch_08_MP4-AAC_noresize-s.mp4.