Apartheid Report
A report on the status of Palestinian Bedouin by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs notes pervasive insecurity and instability due to administrative practices of Israeli authorities….
Read moreEco Echo
Before the American oil boom in the Amazon that poisoned the land and rivers of indigenous peoples over the last half century, there was the rubber boom. As noted in…
Read moreUnable to Cope
Electronic Intifada reports on the efforts of the UN and health care professionals in Gaza and the West Bank to treat post traumatic stress disorder in Palestinian children.
Read moreDeloria Symposium
The sixth annual Vine Deloria Junior symposium at Northwest Indian College was extra special.
Read moreLiterature Ceremony Law
In this abstract, CWIS Associate Scholar Cristine Soliz discusses Native American literature, ceremony and law.
Read moreCounting Coup on Consultation
Lakota activist Debra White Plume explains the Oglala paradigm to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Read morePoisoning the Water
Responding to the scientific evidence that the level of fish consumption by Indian tribes is unhealthy under existing water pollution standards, the state of Oregon this summer took dramatic steps…
Read moreSubsidiarity
With electoral victories in the aftermath of the Sri Lanka civil war, the militarily defeated Tamils reject assimilation, and demand autonomy for their regions.
Read moreOiling Haida Gwaii
August National Geographic looks at the Great Bear Rainforest and Canada’s bid to become a global player in the petroleum market. With Alberta’s oil sands second only to the oil…
Read moreDisturbing Reality
When California’s former governor Schwarzenegger said Indian tribes are ripping us off, I doubt his purpose was to incite violence against American Indians, but bolstering bigotry nevertheless plays into vigilante…
Read moreChief George Manuel Memorial Indigenous Library
The library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.
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