Sami People’s Day
Today is Sami People’s day in Norway. Celebrating the resilience of Sami peoples, Galdu features the story of Elsa Laula Renberg, Sami activist and organizer of the first Sami convention…
Read morePerpetuating Institutional Prejudice
It is difficult to say whether author Jared Diamond writes from ignorance or malice, but his distorted perception of tribal peoples is certainly getting a lot of attention. As an…
Read moreTalking Stick Festival
If art is the essence of life, Vancouver is the place to be this month, as the Talking Stick Festival of aboriginal artists descend on stage February 19-March 3. Live…
Read moreEarth Day Every Day
As corporations and politicians engage in economic environmental extortion over North American energy export of Tar Sands crude and Powder River coal, others are weaving a new narrative for survival….
Read moreNative Trail Blazers
Native Trail Blazers is a cool online radio program. Be sure to check out their February 1, 2013 show with special guest Dr. Sharon Venne, Cree lawyer and indigenous advocate….
Read moreTowards Tax Justice
Tax revenue on wealth held in tax havens could halve world poverty in a decade, but that will only happen if the tax justice campaign brings accountability to the international…
Read moreNilliajut
As announced in Nunatsiaq Online, a compendium of Inuit ideas about sovereignty in the Arctic has been released by the Inuit Knowledge Centre. The anthology, Nilliajut: Inuit Perspectives on Security,…
Read moreCWIS #7 United Nations World Conference on Indigenous Peoples
The United Nations General Assembly decided in December 2010 by adopting resolution 65/198 to convene a Plenary Session of the General Assembly as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples scheduled…
Read moreDestabilizing Bolivia
As Nil Nikandrov reports at Wrong Kind of Green, CIA financing of subversive NGOs and direction of terrorists via the U.S. Embassy in La Paz has continued since first discovered…
Read moreUS FEDERAL TAXATION DISPARITIES IN INDIAN COUNTRY
This is the sixth report of the Good Government Research Group at the Center for World Indigenous Studies. These Reports are are produced at the request of American Indian government…
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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