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Podcast radio interview by J. Kehaulani Kauanui with Tonya Gonnella Frichner (Onondaga Nation, Snipe Clan), the North American Representative of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, on "Indigenous Politics." Topics for discussion focus on the politics of indigenous self-determination under international law, the distinction between minorities and Indigenous peoples, and the decades-long struggle to draft and pass the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as well as the opposition by New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United States (the only four States that voted against it). [Original air-date: 10-30-07]
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(CNN) -- A small tribe of Indians in Paraguay who have had virtually no contact with the outside world won a legal battle this week when rights groups stopped a Brazilian company from continuing to bulldoze the forest to clear land for cattle ranches