Bank Information Center USA : Indigenous Peoples See the BIC links below for more information about indigenous peoples issues and tribal peoples living in tropical forest countries, namely in africa, http://www.bicusa.org/bicusa/issues/indigenous_peoples/index.php
Extractions: BIC is not responsible for any 'sponsored links' that appear on this Google search. Many documents on this site are in Adobe PDF format. Get Adobe Reader Français Español Other Languages Asian Development Bank announces plans to review policies on Involuntary Resettlement, Indigenous Peoples, and Environment. Read More Read about the popular referendum on mining held in the town of Sipacapa, San Marcos, where ore from the Marlin Mine will be cyanide processed. Read More This webpage will keep you updated on ongoing reviews and consultations at international financial institutions. It will be regularly updated with civil society analyses, consultation documents, important dates, groups to contact, and more. Read more The World Bank Board of Directors voted to approve the Revised Draft Operational Policy on Indigenous Peoples (OP 4.10) Read More On this page: Updates Introduction Timetable of Events Partner Organizations ... Resources working in Washington and internationally to improve the core MDB policies that are designed to protect indigenous peoples.
Africa Pygmies are the indigenous people of central africa. who arrived in the7th century and have basically assmilated the indigenous berber people who are http://www.cooldictionary.com/words/Africa.wikipedia
Extractions: Hear it pronounced 'Africa' in Wiktionary 'Africa' in Wikipedia ... crosslinked , or Back to: Webster Dictionary with PRONUNCIATION and Sound! where you can learn English and educate yourself Practice English, talk to a funny artificial intelligence robot hear its voice (hilarious). Africa portal A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the world 's second-largest continent and second most populous after Asia . At about 30,244,050 km² mi² ) including its adjacent islands, it covers 20.3 percent of the total land area on Earth . With over 800 million human inhabitants in 54 countries, it accounts for about one seventh of the world human population World map showing location of Africa The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans , who used the name Africa terra â "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) â for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage , corresponding to modern-day Tunisia The origin of Afer may either come from: the Phoenician `afar , dust;
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Ancient Egyptians - The Descendents Of Ham 2. a member of any of various peoples of northern and eastern africa, They arethe indigenous people of this area, and we first know of them in http://www.geocities.com/wally_mo/reference.html
Extractions: The Hamitic subfamily is generally considered to include ancient Egyptian (see Egyptian language) and its descendant, Coptic; the Berber languages; and the Cushitic languages. Ancient Egyptian and Coptic are extinct. Some linguists also place the Chad languages within the Hamitic subfamily. Those Hamitic tongues are or were spoken in N Africa, much of the Sahara, the Horn of E Africa, and parts of central and W Africa. They were named after Ham, the second son of the biblical Noah, whose descendants supposedly were the original speakers of the Hamitic languages.
Extractions: UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Fifty-eighth session March 18 April 26, 2002 Item # 9: QUESTION OF THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD. Written intervention submitted by the International Indian Treaty Council The militarization of Indigenous lands was the direct cause of many human rights violations occurring throughout the world. The International Indian Treaty Council is extremely concerned about the role of nation/states in many of these often violent incidences where Indigenous Peoples are victimized, dislocated, or forced to defend what little resources are left for them and their families. The IITC has recently received the following information from impacted communities and non governmental organizations. We urgently call the attention of the members of the Commission to these grave situations facing Indigenous Peoples. In Guatemala, the National Coalition of Campesino Organizations (CNOC), including IITC affiliate Comite de Unidad Campesino (CUC), have presented a list of demands to the Guatemalan government that address concerns regarding the inefficiency of governmental institutions designed to address land conflicts and distribution, labor rights violators, and failure to comply with housing and rural development commitments made during the peace negotiation process.
Shout! - Algeria: The Arab-Berber Conflict Today New developments in the ancient berberArab conflict in Algeria have seen As the indigenous people of North africa, once occupying a swath of territory http://www.shoutmonthly.com/mena/arabberber.html
Extractions: le Pouvoir Today, in the midst of a Berber cultural revival, many Kabyle Berber leaders represent the Arabs as the latest in a series of colonizers (there are smaller groups of Algerian Berbers in the Aures mountains and the Ouarseni Massif, but the Kabylians are the most politically active). It is a mistake to regard Berbers as an excluded minority, however. Berbers can be found in the highest levels of Algerian military, political, business and intellectual circles. hadiths (traditions) were fabricated which described the conversion of the Berbers by the Prophet Muhammad himself well before the Arab conquest. The Moroccan Bargawatiyya movement translated the Koran into Berber in the 10th century, but Sunni Muslim reformists destroyed their kingdom and burnt the offensive Berber Koran. The French, who conquered Kabylia in 1857, attempted to divide the Berbers from their Arab neighbours. The use of Berber customary law (
Africa Book Centre Ltd People peoples OF THE SOUTH A Visual Celebration of South africa s indigenous Cultures,peoples OF THE SOUTH A Visual Celebration of South africa s indigenous http://www.africabookcentre.com/acatalog/People.html
Extractions: Courtesy Nadia Benchallal and Middle East Report The origins of the Berbers are unclear; a number of waves of people, some from Western Europe, some from sub-Saharan Africa, and others from Northeast Africa, eventually settled in North Africa and made up its indigenous population. Because present-day Berbers and the overwhelming majority of the Arabs largely descend from the same indigenous stock, physical distinctions carry little or no social connotation and are in most instances impossible to make. The term Berber is derived from the Greeks, who used it to refer to the people of North Africa. The term was retained by the Romans, Arabs, and other groups who occupied the region, but is not used by the people themselves. Identification with the Berber or Arab community is largely a matter of personal choice rather than of membership in discrete and bounded social entities. In addition to their own language, many adult Berbers also speak Arabic and French; for centuries Berbers have entered the general society and merged, within a generation or two, into the Arab group. This permeable boundary between the two major ethnic groups permits a good deal of movement and, along with other factors, prevents the development of rigid and exclusive ethnic blocs. It appears that whole groups slipped across the ethnic "boundary" in the pastand others may do so in the future. In areas of linguistic contiguity, bilingualism is common, and in most cases Arabic eventually comes to predominate.
History Of Jihad Against The Berbers Of North Africa Algeria The berbers were the ancient indigenous people of North africa west of Egypt . Kahina the brave berber Princess held off the Arab hordes for twenty http://www.historyofjihad.org/africa.html
Extractions: What is Jihad: The Arabic word Jihad is derived from the root word Jahada (struggle). Jihad has come to mean an offensive war to be waged by Muslims against all non-Muslims to convert them to Islam on the pain of death. Jihad is enjoined on all Muslims by the Quran. This site brings you the history of the Islamic Jihad from a neutral and factual viewpoint. Site Map The Jihad against Arabs (622 to 634) The Jihad against Zoroastrian Persians of Iran, Baluchistan and Afghanistan (634 to 651) The Jihad against the Byzantine Christians (634 to 1453) The Jihad against Christian Coptic Egyptians (640 to 655) ... The Jihad against Austrians (1683) Jihad in the Modern Age (20th and 21st Centuries) The Jihad against Israelis (1948 2004 ongoing) The Jihad against Americans (9/11/2001) The Jihad against the British (1947 onwards) The Jihad against the Filipinos in Mindanao(1970 onwards) ... The Vision for the post-Islamic (and post-religious) world Motto of this website: all religions are opposed to science as the Pope was to Galileo and Copernicus; but it is Islam which is the most blood-thirsty expression of this challenge of religion to reason.
To Topos, Oregon State University indigenous populations of North africa have long used their conquerors languages 1 The original name of the berber people, which means free men. http://oregonstate.edu/dept/foreign_lang/totopos/samples.html
Extractions: This volume certainly does not constitute an anthology of North African poetry, but is rather a doorway to this rich culture which, unfortunately, still remain opaque and misunderstood today. Our purpose is then to provide a better understanding of this complex region and place the multiple layers of North African colonization into a patchwork that transcends nationalism and present-day political agendas. To that end, this literary and cultural sampling seeks to eschew the regimented discourses and polemics of political factions in order to validate the ancestral and ongoing personalities of North Africa.
WCSF Online The News Service For The World Civil Society Forum 11301300, Joint Session between WG on indigenous peoples, Algeria remainsuninterested in granting any rights to the berber people. http://www.mcart.org/wcsfonlinenews/en/17-jul-02/summ_17.10.cfm
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Africa Stage: Team Dispatch - October 2, 1999 The berbers are the indigenous North African, nonArab, tribal people who dominate During these conquests, many of the berber tribes relocated to the http://www.worldtrek.org/odyssey/africa/100299/100299teamberber.html
Extractions: Welcome to Morocco, an ancient and exotic land of both natural and created splendor. The "Kingdom of Morocco," as it is known, lies just 14 kilometers from Europe, on the Northwest edge of Africa. It is situated between the Atlantic Ocean on the west and the Mediterranean Sea to the north. Among the inhabitants of this richly cultured land are Arabs, black Africans, Jews, Spaniards and the Berbers Of these varied races, the bulk of the Moroccan population is made up of the Berbers. You may be wondering who the Berbers are, or you may already know of them and would like to learn more. Either way, the history and tradition of the Berbers in Morocco is an intriguing chapter in the world history book . In fact, to this day, they continue to play a significant role in the areas they inhabit, specifically Morocco. VOCABULARY BOX Indigenous - Native to the area Consensus - Agreement Dwell - To live in Pivotal - Important Nominally - By appearance The Berbers are the indigenous North African, non-Arab
Articles 8 Ross E. Dunn, berber Imperialism the Ait Atta Expansion in Southeast Morocco, She theorizes decolonial strategies for research on indigenous peoples http://tlj.unm.edu/articles/volume_5/intertribal_conflicts_and_customary_law_reg
Extractions: Anna Natividad Martinez, B.A. 2002, Columbia University; J.D. and Indian Law Certificate Candidate 2005, University of New Mexico School of Law. Rhetoric and Cultural Explanation: A Discussion with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak JAC at http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/000284print.html. REMCO ENSEL, SAINTS AND SERVANTS IN SOUTHERN MOROCCO 3 (1999). [Ensel wrote this book as a revision to his Ph.D. at the University of Amsterdam. His primary base of research was in the Draa River Valley of Morocco, conducted from 1993-94, with a special focus on the Haratine peoples.]. Hsain Ilahiane, The Power of the Dagger, the Seeds of the Koran, and the Sweat of the Ploughman: Ethnic Stratification and Agricultural Intensification in the Ziz Valley, Southeast Morocco 107 n.7 (1998) (unpublished dissertation, Univ. of Arizona) (on file with the Univ. of New Mexico Law Library). Noting that the word has roots in the Arabic verb haratha , to plant, and also hor thani , meaning free people. [Ilahiane is currently teaching at the University of Iowa and is revising his Ph.D. for publication. Ilahiane is from Morocco and based his research primarily in the province of Errachidia, which encompasses the Tafilalt oasis region. Ilahiane is not a member of the Haratine people and acknowledges his limited understanding of history from that perspective.]. AFR. STUD.
Algeria - ETHNIC GROUPS AND LANGUAGES africa, eventually settled in North africa and made up its indigenous The major berber groups are the Kabyles of the Kabylie Mountains east of http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-363.html
Extractions: Courtesy Nadia Benchallal and Middle East Report The origins of the Berbers are unclear; a number of waves of people, some from Western Europe, some from sub-Saharan Africa, and others from Northeast Africa, eventually settled in North Africa and made up its indigenous population. Because present-day Berbers and the overwhelming majority of the Arabs largely descend from the same indigenous stock, physical distinctions carry little or no social connotation and are in most instances impossible to make. The term Berber is derived from the Greeks, who used it to refer to the people of North Africa. The term was retained by the Romans, Arabs, and other groups who occupied the region, but is not used by the people themselves. Identification with the Berber or Arab community is largely a matter of personal choice rather than of membership in discrete and bounded social entities. In addition to their own language, many adult Berbers also speak Arabic and French; for centuries Berbers have entered the general society and merged, within a generation or two, into the Arab group. This permeable boundary between the two major ethnic groups permits a good deal of movement and, along with other factors, prevents the development of rigid and exclusive ethnic blocs. It appears that whole groups slipped across the ethnic "boundary" in the pastand others may do so in the future. In areas of linguistic contiguity, bilingualism is common, and in most cases Arabic eventually comes to predominate.
Written Statement Submitted By The International The militarization of indigenous lands was the direct cause of many human to the plight of Amazigh peoples, the original inhabitants of North africa, http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/c9c3e801fb7d9f24c1256b5d003c1c0e?O
Written Statement Submitted By The International violent incidences where indigenous peoples are victimized, dislocated, berberspeaking villagers report that they are being subjected to racist http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/c9c3e801fb7d9f24c1256b5d003c1c0e?O
The Moors. Who Were They? Moors as a member of Moslem people of mixed Arab and berber descent. officially to the indigenous people of a Roman province in North africa called http://www.spaincostaluz.com/moors.htm
Extractions: The Moors are not a specific race of people. The word has never been clearly defined and remains ambiguous and confusing. This term has been broadly used to denote various people in North Africa, people who came from Morocco or simply to describe Muslims in general. Christians in the 13th century also referred to the Moors as "Moriscos" and "Mudejares". The word MOORS may have evolved from the Greek 'Mauros' which means 'dark'. The Greeks were in Spain around 500 BC, 300 years before the Romans . The Romans probably pinched it from the Greeks, complete with its original connotation of 'dark'. This might explain why the Latin 'Maurus' translates literally into 'Moors', with no further definition. Borrowing directly from the Greek meaning, this would have been good enough for the Romans to describe the 'dark' skinned people of North Africa. This is all conjecture of course, but its close enough for me.
The Kahina, Queen Of The Berbers (January 2004 - Issue #85) 02 The berbers were the ancient indigenous people of North africa west of Egypt . The Kahina took Carthage and ruled most of berber North africa. http://www.whoosh.org/issue85/klossner6.html
Extractions: played by Alison Bruce In LEGACY (117/605), Melissa Good used the title (not the name) of a real North African woman war leader as the name of her fictional woman leader, played by Alison Bruce. Good's Kahina led a coalition of tribes against the Romans in (apparently) the 1st Century C.E. In history, the Kahina, who may have been Jewish, led a coalition of Berber tribes against the Arabs in the late 7th Century. The Berbers were the ancient indigenous people of North Africa west of Egypt. They were of many tribes, but they managed to maintain their culture, their Hamitic languages, and considerable military power during successive invasions of their land. North Africa was conquered by the Phoenicians (who became the Carthaginians), then the Romans, the Vandals (one of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the Roman Empire), the Byzantines, and finally the Arabs. Other foreigners, notably Greeks and Jews, also lived in ancient North Africa. In the 7th century, the Berbers lived in uneasy peace with the Byzantines, who ruled the coastal cities of North Africa, after defeating the Vandals a century before. The ancient city of Carthage was the Byzantine capital in Africa. Some Berbers were Christians (with a notable tendency towards heresy), some were Jewish, and some adhered to their ancient polytheist religion. Before the end of the century the Byzantines were driven from Africa and the Berbers faced a new religion and a new invader.
Algeria - ETHNIC GROUPS AND LANGUAGES africa, eventually settled in North africa and made up its indigenous The term berber is derived from the Greeks, who used it to refer to the people http://countrystudies.us/algeria/51.htm
Extractions: ETHNIC GROUPS AND LANGUAGES Algeria Table of Contents The origins of the Berbers are unclear; a number of waves of people, some from Western Europe, some from sub-Saharan Africa, and others from Northeast Africa, eventually settled in North Africa and made up its indigenous population. Because present-day Berbers and the overwhelming majority of the Arabs largely descend from the same indigenous stock, physical distinctions carry little or no social connotation and are in most instances impossible to make. The term Berber is derived from the Greeks, who used it to refer to the people of North Africa. The term was retained by the Romans, Arabs, and other groups who occupied the region, but is not used by the people themselves. Identification with the Berber or Arab community is largely a matter of personal choice rather than of membership in discrete and bounded social entities. In addition to their own language, many adult Berbers also speak Arabic and French; for centuries Berbers have entered the general society and merged, within a generation or two, into the Arab group. This permeable boundary between the two major ethnic groups permits a good deal of movement and, along with other factors, prevents the development of rigid and exclusive ethnic blocs. It appears that whole groups slipped across the ethnic "boundary" in the pastand others may do so in the future. In areas of linguistic contiguity, bilingualism is common, and in most cases Arabic eventually comes to predominate.
SurfWax: News, Reviews And Articles On Berber The berbers are an indigenous people in the north of the continent who live A berber confederation that arose in North africa conquered it between 1090 http://news.surfwax.com/cultures/files/Berber_Culture.html
Extractions: Gain rich insight into Berber culture amid spectacular surroundings in Morocco ... As if to confirm the remoteness of his High Atlas village, one Berber resident observed, "Even Mohammed VI has never been here." ... The complex promotes tourism that offers a personal introduction to Berber culture and contributes to improving living conditions in these impoverished outposts. (Houston Chronicle Travel) North African Anthropologist Helene Hagan, from the Tazzla Institute for Cultural Diversity, will be on hand at 12:30 p.m. to present her work on Amazigh (Berber) cultures from her native land of Morocco. A dance and drum workshop follows Hagan s lecture at 1:30 p.m., with acclaimed Moroccan dancer Hassania. (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
