Crimes of Church and State
Mother Earth Journal reports that Reverend Kevin Annett was arrested and deported from England over the weekend. Annett, a human rights activist from British Columbia, is an outspoken advocate for…
Read moreMass Communication
Commercial advertising and public relations firms operate from the principle that repeated exposure to a product or idea makes them desirable or legitimate. Placing those products or ideas in locations…
Read moreYasuni
Every story has more than one side. In this film trailer by Raul Paz Pastrana, the story of the Yasuni rainforest is told from the view of its indigenous inhabitants,…
Read moreIK and Medicine
In this short video, the San healers of Southern Africa explain the challenge of curating their indigenous knowledge and taking control of their medicinal resource management.
Read moreDominant Doctrine
Peter d’Errico discusses the Doctrine of Discovery dilemma at the UN, where member states that inherited indigenous lands from invading Christian empires are panicked about the pressure to examine the…
Read moreAn Alternative Path
Denmark continues to play a significant role in the world indigenous peoples’ movement. Over the last decade, the peaceful transition of the Danish territory of Greenland to indigenous self-rule, and…
Read moreMulticulturalism
Toronto’s model schools promote multiculturalism by including aboriginal curricula and Ojibwe language classes.
Read moreThe Sacred Fire
As noted in Upside Down World, Zapatismo is alive and well in the caracols of Chiapas, but self-rule in these autonomous indigenous communities is anything but easy. Community cohesion, the…
Read moreA Criminal Act
In the war between biodiversity and privatization, the battle in the Andes over protecting the genetic diversity of indigenous potatoes from an invasion of genetically modified seeds from the United…
Read moreAgainst Humanity
Poverty is widely recognized as a symptom of structured socioeconomic violence. Privatization is thus the linchpin to what author Michel Chossudovsky called The Globalisation of Poverty. As an act of…
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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