Posts of: Jay Taber
Getting Real
As dominant society venues for participation in UN climate change talks go virtual, indigenous peoples are getting real. Jay Taber, Rudolph Rÿser and Renee Davis provide historical perspective on the…
Read moreBlood for Oil
As President Obama announces his plans for accelerated development in Africa, one is reminded that a quarter of the Earth’s mineral resources are located there, including substantial oil reserves. As…
Read moreSaving the Planet
Taking Down the System Writing in Orion magazine, Derrick Jensen argues that piety is a dead end. Saving the planet, he says, requires taking down the system.
Read moreEgregious Glitter
No governments hold Canadian corporations accountable for murder.
Read moreAnti-Indigenous Axis
The crackdown on Uyghurs in China, like the systematic brutality of Israel toward Palestinians, betrays the promise of universal human rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948. More recently,…
Read moreSecuring Sovereignty
Exercising Treaty Rights The Umatilla tribe in Oregon has reached an agreement with the US Forest Service to graze tribal cattle on lands governed by their treaty rights. As the…
Read moreClash of Values
According to indigenous peoples worldwide, surviving climate change requires reliance on the resilience and adaptability of indigenous customary laws, not the exclusionary laws of commerce developed by corporations seeking monopolies….
Read morePost Carbon
Powering Down Le Monde diplomatique looks at the false promise of biotech, and the sobering reality of powering down.
Read moreInuit Greenland
After two centuries of European colonization, the indigenous Inuit of Greenland prepare for independence from Denmark.
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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