Articles written by Woorama

In Australia a free trade agreement with the United States means bad news for Aboriginal communities, just as it was for First Nations in Mexico, Chile and Canada.

Dec 25, 2007 - Woorama

Amidst conflicting gender roles and stereotypes, Indigenous boys explore their options for becoming men in the modern world.

Dec 18, 2007 - Woorama

Flying reindeer, Santa coming down the chimney, elves with pointy hats, mistletoe - all these Christmas myths originate from Aboriginal cultures.

Dec 11, 2007 - Woorama

A summary of some indigenous statements and declarations for aboriginal intellectual and cultural property rights and ethical standards from around the world.

Dec 4, 2007 - Woorama

Increasingly, educators and researchers are using the interface between Aboriginal and non-local knowledge, identifying opportunities for synergy rather than dominance.

Nov 27, 2007 - Woorama

The Tarahumara have retained a traditional lifestyle and resisted colonisation over three and a half centuries of European contact. Now tourism threatens their existence.

Nov 20, 2007 - Woorama

Aborigines and Greens both have a strong environmental focus in activism. But are conservationists in reality serving a colonial agenda when it comes to land rights?

Nov 13, 2007 - Woorama

The record of John Howard's interaction with Australian Aborigines from 1996 to 2007 reveals an aggressive colonial agenda.

Nov 6, 2007 - Woorama

In Bolivia, there is a neo-conservative backlash against Andean aboriginal peoples who are seeking to build a pluralist state in which native peoples have autonomy.

Oct 30, 2007 - Woorama

Mining giant Santos is ripping off the Wangkumarra people and destroying the land through petroleum mining and "seismic line" exploration techniques.

Oct 23, 2007 - Woorama

Sometimes a family can subvert aboriginal law for their own ends within the economy of the dominant culture. Kahentinetha Bear writes about the situation in Ganiekeh.

Oct 16, 2007 - Woorama

The forcible and illegal removal of Bushmen from their homelands is conflict in anybody's language. But under the Kimberly Process, these diamonds are clean.

Oct 9, 2007 - Woorama

The myth of Aboriginal genetic deficit is becoming reality through malnutrition and a plague of Syndrome X that is becoming hereditary through intergenerational poverty.

Oct 2, 2007 - Woorama

An excerpt from Keating's 1992 speech at Redfern, Sydney. The political climate around Aboriginal rights has certainly changed since then.

Sep 25, 2007 - Woorama

Aboriginal cosmology, dismissed as "myth", has a lot to offer science in the quest for "extra-terrestrial life and intelligence". The problem is defining the terms.

Sep 18, 2007 - Woorama

In American prisons, Indian inmates struggle against a system dedicated to eradicating Native American indigenous spiritual practices and ceremonies.

Sep 11, 2007 - Woorama

The Nuba, having remained aloof from colonial culture and trade since ancient Egyptian times, are now succumbing to the ravages of war, mining and business interests.

Sep 4, 2007 - Woorama

The Prusi indigenous people of former Prussia, thought to be extinct since the Crusades, are making a comeback. Young European pagans are reclaiming tribal identities.

Aug 28, 2007 - Woorama

Native Cypriots have endured millennia of multiple invaders, yet retain their cultural integrity and claim to land, despite losing half their island to Turkish invaders.

Aug 21, 2007 - Woorama

Chagos Islanders have won the right to return to their native lands, from which they were once expelled by the British to make room for the American military.

Aug 7, 2007 - Woorama

Aboriginal logic systems and ways of knowing are mostly dismissed as primitive and childlike. In fact they are complex systems that are vital to the future of humankind.

Jul 31, 2007 - Woorama

Anglo-centred curricula and school texts provoke resistance in Indigenous learners, resulting in widespread education failure in Aboriginal communities.

Jul 24, 2007 - Woorama

Excerpts from a speech by Georgina Williams Yambo Kartanya, Ngangkiburka Kaurnayerta (Senior Woman, Kaurna Country), about recovering stolen identities.

Jul 24, 2007 - Woorama

The Howard Settler Government's invasion of the Northern territory is land-grabbing racism nothing more. Statement from activist Robbie Thorpe.

Jul 17, 2007 - Woorama

In Australia, the military has been deployed in an Indigenous community in response to allegations of paedophilia.

Jul 11, 2007 - Woorama

How Japan's quest for modernity and uniformity has almost eradicated the Ainu peoples of the Hokkaido.

Jul 4, 2007 - Woorama

The harrowing story of Millicent, an Aboriginal child labelled "half-caste" and taken from her family by the Aboriginal Protection Board then repeatedly sexually abused.

Jun 27, 2007 - Woorama

Genetic science, while having the potential to support social justice for Indigenous people, is often compromised by racist agendas grounded in Eugenics - Nazi ideology.

Jun 13, 2007 - Woorama

The myth of race has long dominated definitions of Aboriginality in Australia, impacting on the plethora of Aboriginal policies that continue to marginalise our peoples.

Jun 6, 2007 - Woorama

Catch 22. The Malaysian government has refused to grant land rights to the Sarawak Penan until they agree to settle in sedentary colonies, renouncing a nomadic lifestyle.

May 23, 2007 - Woorama

Ethiopian indigenous peoples are threatened as much by colonial constructs of their identity as they are by bullets, drought and famine.

May 16, 2007 - Woorama

Australian Aborigines suffer far higher rates of mental illness than non-Indigenous peoples. But who is causing this crisis, and more importantly, who is measuring it?

Apr 4, 2007 - Woorama

Aboriginal issues are perceived negatively by the wider public because of media portrayals, with talk-back radio hosts the most blatant culprits.

Mar 27, 2007 - Woorama

When it comes to Aboriginal rights, colonial governments need not adhere to their own laws, as you can see in the neo-colonial invasion of the Cree.

Mar 22, 2007 - Woorama

A critical examination of the way Aboriginal role models are presented in the media indicates that the aim is not inspiration, but assimilation.

Mar 20, 2007 - Woorama

Sri Lankan indigenous people were evicted from their traditional lands in the name of "wilderness conservation".

Mar 13, 2007 - Woorama

The nomadic Kazakhs of Russia have been colonised by Slavs, Cossacks, Stalinists, and Soviets. Result - famine, fallout, and an average age of 31.

Feb 20, 2007 - Woorama

Negative representation of Aborigines in the media has been identified as a major cause of prejudice against Indigenous peoples in Australia.

Feb 13, 2007 - Woorama

In countering loss of culture and the exodus of indigenous Corsicans from their motherland, is Corsica marginalising its ethnic minority of Arab immigrants?

Feb 6, 2007 - Woorama

Sexual harrassment and child molestation charges are part of a government strategy to attack Onkwehonwe men. Guestwriter Kahentinetha Horn explains.

Jan 28, 2007 - Woorama

Courtroom language is culturally biased and aggressively colonial, alienating Indigenous defendants from mainstream justice and law.

Jan 14, 2007 - Woorama

Colonists once claimed ancient Shona ruins as belonging to a "lost white civilisation". This myth was used to justify European occupation in Southern Africa.

Jan 7, 2007 - Woorama

The Adyghe people are one of many indigenous tribes of the Caucassus region, displaced by Russian invaders. Caucasian doesn't mean "white". Meet the real deal.

Dec 31, 2006 - Woorama

Participation in the market economy is on the global agenda as a solution for Indigenous community dysfunction. But we should examine the Alaskan experience, and beware..

Dec 24, 2006 - Woorama

Tuvalu representative to the United Nations, Minute Alapati Taupo, tells the UN of the troubles facing his "sinking island".

Dec 10, 2006 - Woorama

Aboriginal activism of the sixties - this protest was a turning point in the dismantling of the infamous "White Australia Policy".

Dec 3, 2006 - Woorama

This guest writer is a Nyungar woman, making bold statements about the hardships faced by Indigenous women in Western Australia.

Nov 26, 2006 - Woorama

Popular culture stereotypes of "Eskimos" are far from harmless, as they shape perceptions of indigenous people and promote prejudice.

Nov 19, 2006 - Woorama

Examining the famous New Zealand Treaty of Waitangi between the Maori and the British - the language of paternalism can be so amusing.

Oct 29, 2006 - Woorama

Assimilation of indigenous Imazighen in places like Algeria has disastrous results. But outsider definitions and labels can be equally damaging.

Oct 22, 2006 - Woorama