Taiwan Indigenous News
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
Political whisk: Angry Taiwan aboriginals throw eggs
"It's about our land, and the Council of Indigenous Peoples doesn't support us." The protesters, organised largely by aboriginal legislators, ...
Tea, aboriginal beads, cakes win contest for Taiwan's best products
Handcrafted with clay, they were used as a symbol of nobility and power in the aboriginal tribe. Now they have become one of the must-buy tour souvenirs in ...
Indigenous people call for minister to resign
6 (CNA) Over 300 members of the indigenous people's alliance for safeguarding the Aboriginal Basic Law staged a protest Tuesday in front of the Council of ...
Protesters slam interference in media affairs
PTS, Hakka Television Service and Taiwan Indigenous Television Service (TITV) are all affiliates of TBS, which is funded mainly by the government. ...
Nestor Horfilla
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Kalinawa Art Foundation topic: Sustainable Management of Indigenous Peoples Natural and Cultural Resources |
| background | NESTOR T. HORFILLA is an artist and cultural worker who, for more than twenty years, had engaged in cultural action work in grassroots communities especially with Indigenous Peoples in Mindanao, Southern Philippines. He was also instrumental in the organization of network and coalitions of artists and Indigenous Peoples Organizations in the region. During the last ten years, he worked in a community-based natural resource management project with the Subanen Indigenous Peoples in Lakewood, Zamboanga del Sur, directed towards the sustainable development of the Subanen ancestral domain and the conservation of cultural and natural resources of the indigenous Subanen. He has authored several monographs and publications on Indigenous peoples of Mindanao. Lately has been involved as artistic director of various Cultural Expositions and Festivals and a curator of several Indigenous Peoples Visual Arts Exhibitions. |
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Kalinawa Art Foundation |