Xenophobia and lack of compassion characterize the Canadian government stance toward Tamil and other refugees. The aggressive detention proposed by the Conservative Party, where refugees would automatically be held in…
read moreIn his article at Indian Country Today, Duane Champagne discusses academia’s propensity to pay lip service to Native American studies without allowing it to flourish from the perspective of Native…
read moreIn this short video, Melina Laboucan-Massimo of the Lubicon Cree in Northern Alberta discusses the destruction of their way of life by the Government of Canada and the oil and…
read moreIn Crisis in Sudan, Frederick Clarkson interviews Anglican Bishop Andudu about the imminent genocide in South Sudan. As UN peacekeepers stand idly by, Nuba Christians and others supporting secession from…
read moreWhen Crystal Willcuts says being respectful, truthful, and caring is un-American, she is observing the vast values divide between indigenous peoples and American culture, which she describes as immature, greedy,…
read moreWhen it comes to writing and storytelling, we’d all like to be the next N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ray A. Youngbear, or Sherman Alexie. But the reality is…
read moreFirst Nations in British Columbia opposed to oil pipelines and supertankers assert their right to say no. As guardians of the north coast and the mountains, First Nations assert that…
read moreInternational Work Group for Indigenous Affairs this month highlights the concept of self-determination. Check out IWGIA links and resources on this and other human rights topics.
read moreAs Africa's newest country plans to declare independence on July 9, Southern Sudan, awash in small arms as a result of nearly a half century of warfare, faces many challenges…
read moreIn Steven Newcomb’s critique of a doctrine of reconciliation, he reviews the Christian domination paradigm, and the assimilation/reconciliation process. As a destructive legacy of church and state domination, says Newcomb,…
read moreThe 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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