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Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People
Smithsonian Institution during the summer of 1998. He also built the Ainu house or chise and consulted on the exhibit. David Dubreuil, Project Manager David Dubreuil, of ... Asahikawa Museum of Art Hokkaido Museum of Contemporary Art Otoineppu Village Office, and All the Ainu people who helped with this project Plain Text Opening | About the Exhibit | Map | Resources | Acknowledgements ...
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Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People
This map shows changes to Ainu territories between 1400 and 1945; parts of northern Honshu were lost to Japanese expansion, while ... Hokkaido, with a population of between 25,000 and 50,000 Ainu, is the only remaining homeland for Ainu people today. Plain Text Opening | About the Exhibit | Map | Resources | Acknowledgements Room ...
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KIWC Newsletter October 1998 VOL.7 (4/4)
Finally, a variety of environmental studies have been conducted to ... Nesting of Red-Crowned Cranes in Bamboo Grass Fields Sarorun-kamui (or Sarurun-kamui), an Ainu word for Red-crowned Cranes - "Tancho" - means "the god of wetlands." Red-crowned cranes are ...
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Kushiro Marsh, archaeological data such as shell mound remains, and data on the Ainu, Hokkaido's indigenous people. Environmental music can be heard in this museum, and materials are exhibited in a unique way. 3. Kushiro Marine Topos This facility exhibits data on the history and current state of fishery, one of ...
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Salmon: Spirit of the Land and Sea
Salmon: Spirit of the Land and Sea Dressed in traditional clothing and marked with an Ainu mouth tattoo, Sute Orita carries the symbolic first fish to begin the salmon ceremony in Sapporo, Japan. Banned from fishing almost a century ago by the Japanese, the Ainu are working to regain rights to the salmon. Heroes of the natural world and stars of an ages-old drama: the ...
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John Muir & I
In fact, resurrection is the focus of the bear sacrifice cult as practiced by the Ainu, the aboriginal people of Japan, and probably by their paleolithic predecessors. Just as the moon is sacred because ... ignored the bridge, but soaked their feet gratefully in the river. Soon there were over a dozen people camped around the bear box. It made an excellent platform for out cooking stoves, and we ...
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Foundation History
These projects included working with the Kayapo people of the Lower Amazon, the Ainu of Japan, and with OREWA in Colombia. As well we commissioned reports on a ... a number of key contract positions were identified in both projects and fundraising, and many more excellent people were hired. The new Pacific Salmon Forests Project titles included LastCall: The Will to Save ...
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What's New - Global Policy Forum
World Social Forum as an example of this approach, which provides the perfect opportunity for people from around the world to tackle topics such as environmental degradation. (Foreign Policy In Focus) ... Ainu to assimilate. According to a 2006 government report, the Ainu - who number about 24,000 people - are less likely to be university educated and more likely to receive welfare benefits than ...
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Native Planet: Non-profit NGO helping indigenous peoples preserve threatened cultures
Helping these groups speak for themselves to a global audience is crucial to their protection and Native Planet's documentation of indigenous lifestyles gives traditional people a voice the world can hear. The accounts and photographs of our experiences will introduce you to world cultures struggling to retain their ancient ways in the face of economic ...
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Recognition for a People Who Faded as Japan Grew - Nations & States - Global Policy Forum
Complicating matters is the governments studiously vague recognition of the Ainu as an indigenous people. So far, it has not said whether recognition will entail certain rights and ... set up the Hokkaido Colonization Board to encourage Japanese settlers to move to Hokkaido. The Ainu were eventually stripped of their land, forced to abandon hunting and fishing for farming, forbidden ...
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