Welcome to the Center For World Indigenous Studies' Chief George Manuel Memorial Library. This site is dedicated in the name of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel to the nations of the Fourth World, to the elders and generations to come. Our goal is to present the online community with the greatest possible access to Fourth World documents and resources. The Chief George Manuel Memorial Library is an online library of texts which record and preserve our peoples' struggles to regain their rightful place in the international community.
This archive, under the Fourth World Documentation Program, was originally authorized by a resolution of the Conference of Tribal Governments. The resolution was originally sponsored by Chairman Cliff Keline of the Muckleshoot Tribal Council in 1979. The archive grew into the Chief George Manuel Memorial Library with currently more than 100,000 documents, reports, and publications from American Indian nations and indigenous nations from around the world. We have digitized more than 1000 of these documents so they will be available to Tribal governments, researchers, students and people interested in policy developments in the Fourth World. Our librarian and research assistants may be able to secure documents from the hardcopy archive simply write to: Librarian and request information. There may be a charge for this service. Ask the Librarian.
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Click on the regions of the map for documents specific to Fourth World Nations or click on the titles below to find documents and records of an international character
The Center For World Indigenous Studies would like to give special thanks to:
- Caere Corporation for their generous donation of the OmniPage Professional and PageKeeper Plus OCR software packages.
- Catherine Hampton (ariel@netcom.com ) for her encouragement and assistance in the creation of this site.