First Continental Conference on Five Hundred Years of Indigenous Resistance

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First Continental Conference on Five Hundred Years of Indigenous Resistance was held in Quito, Ecuador from July 17-23, 1990. Four-hundred representatives from one-hundred and twenty Indigenous nations and organizations throughout the Americas attended. It was organized by a variety of national pan-Indian organizations, including CONAIE from Ecuador, ONIC in Colombia, and SAIIC in the United States. They met with the goal of fomenting international cooperation in organizational efforts against the 1992 quincentennial celebration; overcoming language, class, and culture barriers; renewing their dedication to the struggle against oppression, discrimination, and exploitation; struggling for complete autonomy, self-government, self-determination, and structural change for Indigenous groups; and demanding the right to control land, natural resources, economic development, government, social and cultural matters, and to maintain the equilibrium of the eco-system.