[NYTr] France Honors Indigenous Peoples
 
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:56:40 -0500 (CDT)

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France Honors Indigenous Peoples

Paris, Oct 12 (Prensa Latina) France will hold on Saturday a day of
solidarity with the indigenous peoples of America, occasion that allows
for concrete and authentic intercultural exchanges with representatives
of these peoples historically discriminated.

The event, to take place in Bobigny, municipality located in the north
periphery of Paris, in Seine-Saint-Denis Department, will focus on the
Declaration on the Rights of the Autonomous Peoples, adopted in United
Nations General Assembly.

This event takes place each October 12 with international character, as
allegorical date to celebrate the arrival of Christopher Columbus to
the new continent.

Since 1980, the Committee of Solidarity with the Natives of the
Americas (CSIA-Nitassinan) organizes a day of exchanges and encounters
with native delegates of the three Americas.

On this occasion, the celebration will be attended by the Bolivian
Ambassador to France Luzmila Carpio, first Indian Quechuan named as
diplomat.

Also, Bobby Castillo, native Chicano Apache, who will report on the
situation of Leonardo Peltier, Lakota, imprisoned in the United States.

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