Summarizing President Carter's FY 79 Indian budget, this article presents tabular data describing this budget in terms of: departments and programs (Departments of: Health, Education, and Welfare; Interior; Housing and Urban Development; Commerce; and Labor); FY 78 appropriations vs requests; and the increases or decreases in dollars and…

Reporting on the second symposium on "Amazonia: Extinction or Survival" (Madison, Wisconsin, 1978), this article summarizes papers presented on colonization, health, education, law, etc., and presents the symposium's six resolutions. (JC)

Included in this report on legislation of interest to Native Americans are: introductions to bills; summations of hearings; rules and regulations, proposed rules, and notices taken from the Federal Register; and summations of selected American Indian cases in the Supreme Court Docket as of October 17. (JC)

A loosely knit coalition of over 25 native groups, the Peruvian Amazon Peoples has prepared a statement directed at the Peruvian Constitutional Assembly for purposes of Native input into the preparation of a revised national constitution. (JC)

The "Final Resolution" of the International Non-Governmental Organizations Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations (1977) is detailed in this article which describes the program of action for the legal field and the sociocultural field. (JC)