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CANADA: A Truth and Reconciliation Commission into Canada’s Stolen Generations – the children who were forced from their families into Residential Schools – has handed down its interim report.

NEW ZEALAND: The Maori Party this month threatened to consider pulling out of its support arrangement with the National government over concerns it will not include treaty rights in partial state assets sales.

CANADA: Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with about 400 Aboriginal chiefs from Ottowa this month following reports of third-world conditions in the northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat.

BOLIVIA: The stoush over a highway due to be built through an Indian reserve re-ignited this week after 2,000 Amazon Indians marched on the city of La Paz calling on the project to continue.

Indigenous people at Plaza de Armas square in La Paz this October. They arrived after a two-month march from their ancestral homeland in the Amazon lowlands to press Bolivian President Evo Morales to cancel a road project through a reserve. Morales announced recently he was scrapping the controversial plan to build a highway through an Amazon ecological reserve that has triggered widespread protests. (AFP PHOTO/AIZAR RALDES)

BOLIVIA: Bolivia’s first Indigenous President has scrapped a controversial super highway that would have cut into the homelands of Indigenous tribes.

CHILE: Over 10,000 Indigenous people marched in the capital city of Santiago on the 519th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival to the Americas.

UNITED STATES: It was a common occurrence in the lead up to this year’s Rugby World Cup, but the Americans have a different view of the haka.

Peru’s President Ollanta Humala has less than two weeks to sign a new historic land rights law. (AP PHOTO/MARTIN MEJIA)

PERU: The country’s congress has voted unanimously to pass an “historic” new land rights law which gives Indigenous Peruvians the right to free, prior and informed consent over operations on their lands.

NEW ZEALAND: The Maori Party has brushed off criticism from its former MP Hone Harawira, who dumped the party to form his own earlier this year.

CANADA: An Aboriginal prison guard’s discrimination complaint about his workplace has finally been settled, making it the longest-running human rights case in the country’s history.

Canada probes its Stolen Generations

Hone strikes again

‘National emergency’ shocks Canada into ‘modern legislative change’

Highway protest

Indigenous protestors notch up win

Not everyone is celebrating Columbus Day

US police use pepper spray on performers

Peru passes historic land rights laws

Maori Party brushes off Harawira criticism

Aboriginal prison officer wins discrimination complaint

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