Indigenous people

To make things more complicated, the United Nations does not use the term tribal peoples and Alfredsson thinks it likely they would be classified as minorities. This shows how difficult it is to speak on the same level on a global scale. Not 

Alfredsson (2005), p. 169. For more on the different views of groups, minorities and the term national see also Wright (1996), p. 194. 

41 43 Erika-Irene Daes and Asbj0m Eide (2000) Working Paper on the Relationship and Distinction Between the Rights of Persons Belonging to Minorities and Those of Indigenous Peoples UN Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/2000/10. 

The international community took the easy way out in the era of decolonization even if the situation was not that simple. It is increasingly difficult to justify a difference between jreoples and minorities. Intematirmal law meets its limits on this question. Peoples and minorities have different rights—namely peoples have a right to self-determination. Keeping these two groups apart is most probably done for political reasons. 

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Replace expatriates with indigenous people in (Western) companies located in other, particularly Third World, coimtries mentoring can help to manage cultural issues. 

Johns T (1999) Plant constituents and the nutrition and health of indigenous peoples. In Nazarea VD (ed) Ethnoecology. Situated Knowledge, Located Lives. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, p 157... 

Written by a shamanic healer who shows you how to work with healing techniques indigenous peoples have used for centuries. Includes hands-on methods and an indispensable encyclopedia on the powers of crystals, gems and minerals... 

Deloria V (1995) Red earth, white lies. Harper Row, New York Deloria V (1996) If you think about it, you will see that it is true. Revision 18(3) 37—44 Dwyer PD (1994) Modern conservation and indigenous peoples in search of wisdom. Pacific Conserv Biol 1 91-97... 

There are clear connections between food habits and the levels of different POPs, including PCCD/PCDFs and coplanar PCBs, found in humans. The current substances, especially PCBs, have been shown to be capable of transport over long distances. Indigenous people who rely heavily on marine mammals will therefore face a comparably high exposure to different POPs, and atmospheric transport is likely to play an important role in the presence of these animals in remote areas. 

In prolonged space flight, besides the obvious The Sami are an indigenous people living in the... 

There is perhaps no better illustration of the impact of the route of administration than the sad story of cocaine. For centuries, coca leaves were chewed by the indigenous peoples of South America for a boost of energy while working in... 

Aguilar, G. Access to Genetic Resources and Protection of Traditional Knowledge in the Territories of Indigenous Peoples. Environmental Science Policy Vol. 4 (2001) 241-256. 

Cox, P.A. (1997) Indigenous people and conservation. In Biodiversity and Human Health. Grifo, F. ... 

The ayahuasca potion is made of two plants, one of which reassembles double-helical vines. Ayahuasca contains the psychoactive chemicals DMT and several harmaline alkaloids. DMT can be extracted and smoked with powerful effect. However, eating DMT does little because MAO (mono-amine oxidase) in our guts deactivates the DMT when DMT is taken orally. On the other hand, the alkaloids in ayahuasca inhibit MAO in the gut, so that the brew is psychoactive. I wonder how the indigenous peoples of the Amazon ever figured out what plants from the thousands of plants in the forest to combine to get both the DMT and the MAO-inhibitor. 

Adoption of the boundaries and unities created by the imperial power as the sacred space of the new national identity, within which all indigenous people should bury their differences. 

Kuhnlein, H. V. and N. J. Turner. 1991. Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples. Nutrition, Botany and Use. Gordon and Breach Sci. Publ. Philadelphia, PA. 

In 1621 smallpox came to North America from a ship sailing from the West Indies. This importation of smallpox was not, of course, the first or even the most lethal transmission of the disease to the continent. When the indigenous peoples of the New World initially encountered this Old World disease, the impact was far more horrific (McNeil 1976). Smallpox, like other diseases, has the potential to wipe out civilizations. 

Practices such as these also occur among other indigenous peoples of this region, and other hallucinogenic plants are also used in these ways. 

Richards, P. 1996. Culture and community values in the selection and maintenance of African rice. In S. Brush and D. Stabinsky (eds.). Valuing Local Knowledge Indigenous People and Intellectual Property Rights. Washington D.C. Island Press. 

Only if the research proposal indicates that the programme will interview indigenous people does COSTECH request a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the researchers and the indigenous group. 

The experience in Tanzania is that the implementation of the CBD is extremely difficult. There is still rampant biopiracy, particularly involving the indigenous people who are poor and with a low level of education. There have been relatively few opportunities for capacity building with the assistance of foreign collaborators. 

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