2 items from OCPA News

[Don Osborn]

The following items may be of interest. (Seen in OCPA News #175 (26 Feb.
2007)
http://www.ocpanet.org/activities/newsletter/2007/OCPA_News_No175_20070226.p
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First Peoples: Indigenous Cultures and their Futures
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/indigenous/rc/ItemDetail.do~1088831?int
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Sissons, professor of social anthropology in New Zealand, calls his book an
"argument about the future of indigeneity," and in it he analyzes first
peoples from the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and Brazil.
He addresses the painful nineteenth- and...

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The Inconvenient Indigenous: Remote Area Development in Botswana, Donor
Assistance and the First People of the Kalahari
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/indigenous/rc/ItemDetail.do~1088832?int
cmp=700
The book deals with the relationship between the government of Botswana and
its indigenous minority, known as Bushmen, San, Basarwa, or more recently
N/oakwe, and tries to understand why the San people remain a marginalized
minority in a country that since independence...

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