Indigenous peoples in Africa face many obstacles to living a free and independent life: Chinese, European and American corporations, AFRICOM, Christian evangelicals and Islamic fundamentalists to name a few. Awash with weapons from the Pentagon and corrupted by the corporations, states like Uganda are a nightmare for environmental and human rights activists, Indigenous or otherwise.... more →
One thing college students can do is social research, and if applied intelligently, that research can be an eye opener. Students at the University of Minnesota have done just that. In their documentary film about the history of colonial brutality toward American Indians in Minnesota, they connect the atrocities of yesterday with the poverty of... more →
On Indian Country Today, Steven Newcomb examines the history of terrorism as a method employed by empires and states against Indigenous nations and peoples. As the foremost tool for enlarging their territories and maintaining control over them, terrorism by empires and states deploys the psychology of fear against all opponents. In the case of the... more →
On April 23, Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo spoke at the Canadian Club of Toronto on The Economics of Reconciliation. Founded on rights recognition, healing and education, capacity and seizing economic potential, reconciliation built on respectful relations is the key, says Atleo, to future opportunity for all Canadians... more →
Writing in IPS, Rebecca Murray delves deeper into the indigenous roots of the Libyan state, and the complexities they comprise... more →
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