Posts of: Jay Taber
Double Standard
As Sarah Hunt observes in her article on Media Indigena, theft of indigenous peoples’ property is a normal activity under colonial settlement. Whether that theft is by individuals, government, or…
Read moreAustralia Out of Control
Following on the heels of international condemnation for its inhumanitarian intervention against the Aboriginal People of the Northern Territory, the Australian government has opted for full scale invasion and imposition…
Read moreHaudenosaunee Health
Haudenosaunee women lead the way in healing and health from a wholistic perspective.
Read moreCan’t Be Trusted
To the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, the violations by the governments of Quebec and Canada of resource sustainability agreements with their First Nation are all they need to show Canada…
Read moreHope Belongs to the Resistance
In a 2005 interview with Raymundo Sanchez Barraza, In Motion Magazine looked at A University Without Shoes. In discussing the indigenous intercultural system of informal education developed by the Mayan…
Read moreFED by NED
In the old days of the CIA and National Security Agency (NSA), official US Government organizations were more candid about overthrowing governments that did not succumb to domination by US…
Read moreOn the Land
When indigenous communities have a genuine say in development, they can preserve their way of life and that of the animals with which they share the land. In Namibia, that…
Read moreDestroying Community
As Dawn Paley reports from Oaxaca, extraction corporations from North America literally destroy community in the third and fourth worlds.
Read moreCulturally Sound Options
Intergenerational trauma among Indians in the US and Canada due to 20th century boarding school abuses is not difficult to understand. When children are beaten, berated and molested by authorities…
Read moreBeating the Odds
Most of the news about indigenous peoples is bad: states, corporations and vigilantes threatening, assaulting or murdering them in order to steal their land and resources. Occasionally, though, we hear…
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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