[environment] Indigenous Communities Set Border Agenda
 
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:02:22 -0600 (CST)

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Indigenous Communities Set Border Environment Agenda
By Talli Nauman

Representatives of the first peoples of northern Mexico and the
southwestern United States have issued a joint communiqui they hope
will set the new years agenda for protection of the environment they
have shared since long before a national border separated them.
Negotiators for 26 Mexican indigenous communities and U.S. tribes who
felt their concerns were sidelined in a 2005 binational declaration on
border environment, released their own statement in response. Last year
marked the first time the Indian populations participated in the
U.S.-Mexico Border 2012 National Coordinators Meeting, where they had a
voice in the cross-boundary programs sponsored by the Environmental
Protection Agency. Yet they deemed it necessary to distinguish their
priorities from those outlined at the meeting by the representatives of
other jurisdictions in the 2,000-mile-long border area. The Native
American leaders put forward recommendations for conservation of land,
air, and water. Some of the counsel differs from that given by
non-Indian citizens, while some of it reflects worries held in common. 

This article originally appeared in The Herald Mexico / El Universal on
Jan. 8, 2006. Talli Nauman is the IRC Americas Program Associate and
editor at large (online at americas.irc-online.org).

See new IRC commentary online at: 
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3038

With printer-friendly pdf version at: 
http://americas.irc-online.org/pdf/commentary/0601IndigenousEnvironAgenda.pdf

 
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