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- From: idoy@crux1.cit.cornell.edu (Mike Wilson)
- Subject: Re: Comments on the 2nd RFD: soc.culture.native
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 00:16:15 GMT
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- I'll try it again:
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- >Status: UNMODERATED
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- >CHARTER: Soc.culture.native is for the discussion
- >of issues relating to native populations throughout
- >the world. For the purposes of defining this newsgroup,
- >"native" is considered roughly synonymous with "aboriginal"
- >or "indigenous" -- all terms which designate a populations's having <=====
- >been the first to inhabit a particular region. This
- >newsgroup is intended to be inclusive, not exclusive,
- >offering an important vehicle for exchange among native
- >peoples and between native and non-native peoples. Besides
- >providing a forum for the discussion of such issues
- >as sovereignty, religion, education and philosophy,
- >this newsgroup will also carry news stories and bulletins
- >which pertain to current events relating to indigenous
- >peoples, and which alert readers to urgent situations
- >which require immediate responses, such as human rights
- >cases and imminent encroachment upon native populations.
- >
- >We recognize that a number of Usenet newsgroups do exist
- >for the purpose of exchanging information and ideas about
- >various peoples and places, and about issues (e.g., environment)
- >which are relevant to the concerns of the members of indigenous
- >societies. Soc.culture.native welcomes articles whose content
- >pertains to topics important to indigenous peoples which are
- >cross-posted to other newsgroups.
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- >------------------------
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- Please note the correction, and thanks for your patience.
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- Mike
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