Posts of: Jay Taber
Leaving the Comfort Zone
Richard Atleo, in his book Tsawalk, writes about civilizations completing phases of growth, and likens the resistance to change or transformation to the reluctance of individuals to leave the comfort…
Read moreThe Certainty of Tyranny
Taoiseach Cowen says Ireland faces uncertainty due to its rejection of corporate colonialism; earlier in the week, Ireland’s prime minister remarked that he couldn’t get his mind around this mentality….
Read moreDivide and Conquer
The governments of Canada and British Columbia know from experience how to divide and conquer First Nations. It’s long been a standard procedure of their state bureaucracies to manipulate the…
Read moreUnity
Corporate colonialism faces only one obstacle—unity. Unity among Native Americans has the US Department of Interior on the ropes for its century of swindling in cahoots with US corporations. Unity…
Read moreTreaty Trounced
The Irish people say NO to the corporate agenda in Europe. The neoliberal treaty forced on the EU by megacorporations has been roundly rejected in Ireland. Routed by the fierce…
Read moreWonder of the World
On June 13, 1940, ten thousand Native Americans gathered on the Columbia River at Kettle Falls for a three-day Ceremony of Tears to mark the end of their way of…
Read moreEye of the Beholder
History, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Sometimes, though, the mind’s eye distorts our historical “vision” and memory to suit other purposes. Three summers ago, Juli Meanwhile…
Read moreComing Together
Making amends takes many forms. In California, a state with no indigenous colleges, tribes like the Miwok — who previously inhabited Yosemite Valley and San Francisco Bay — also have…
Read moreCondemned by History
In the chapter titled Novels Disguised as History, from the book A Writer’s Reality, renowned Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa describes how the Quechua Inca were paralyzed by their religion…
Read moreOut of the Silence
The decaying totems of Haida Gwaii, documented in William Reid and Adelaide de Menil’s 1971 book Out of the Silence, were living monuments to a form of communication about the…
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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