When we strip away the superficial banter blaring from media noise machines, three essential questions emerge. Who are your people? Where did they come from? What is their story? In…
read moreAn international student conference sponsored by African Young Scientists Initiative on Climate Change and Indigenous Knowledge will take place August 15-17 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Abstracts are due by May…
read moreIn an increasingly criminal world, covenants, treaties, and conventions recognizing aboriginal title mean little if laws acknowledging indigenous rights aren’t enforced. In Michoacan, Mexico, where indigenous forests have been illegally…
read moreAccording to Jemima Pierre, the International Criminal Court has only indicted African leaders, lending to the impression that barbarity only descended on the continent after the departure of colonial powers….
read moreAlready dealing with contamination from previous uranium mines, the Eastern Navajo Dine are challenging the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issuance of new licenses. With cancer, heart disease and birth defects caused…
read moreUnder the Reagan administration, protecting US-friendly feudalism in Central America went hand in hand with privatizing clandestine military operations. The crimes against humanity committed by foreign death squads, trained at…
read moreThe Batwa of Uganda are thought to be the oldest tribal people on the planet, but their eviction from their homeland forests has caused many problems in their health and…
read moreNot all Nobel Peace Prize winners are warmongers like Henry Kissinger and Barack Obama. Some, like Rigoberta Menchu, actually earn the prize. Menchu, a noted Mayan activist, will run for…
read moreWhen I first encountered the Wise Use Movement — corporate funded vigilantism against environmentalists — it was just after CBS 60 Minutes aired its September 20, 1992 program Clean Water,…
read moreJune 27-29 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, the Assembly of First Nations will host the International Indigenous Summit on Energy and Mining. Emphasizing the link between sustainability, sovereignty, and solidarity, AFN…
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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