Posts of: Jay Taber
Athabasca Showdown
The Firelight Group, a research cooperative, has released a report on the impacts of the Alberta Tar Sands on the Athabasca River and the indigenous communities suffering from its degradation….
Read moreBetween Life and Death
Today’s essay at International Cry notes the importance of transparency, the responsibilities of media, and the value of being informed. Cataloging the escalation of atrocities committed against indigenous peoples worldwide,…
Read moreStudying Aboriginals
Rick Harp of Media Indigena provides an Indigenous Research Roundup.
Read moreFighting For Change
Calling the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples a path to respect and reconciliation, Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo speaks on fighting for change.
Read moreManifest Injustice
As a participant in the Modern Indian Identity series of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, Walter Echo-Hawk of the Native American Rights Fund spoke…
Read moreDirty Secrets
As reported by Al Jazeera, Shell Oil essentially rules the state of Nigeria. In addition to the Wikileaks release of Shell documents, The Real News Network recently held a webcast…
Read moreHealing on Hold
Angela Sterritt reports on the fine work of the Native Women’s Association of Canada, and examines their betrayal by the Canadian government. As the leading advocate for aboriginal women with…
Read moreCompromising with Capitalism
Bolivian President Evo Morales spoke at Cancun yesterday, observing that compromising with capitalism is cheating mankind and killing Mother Earth.
Read moreAn Unseemly Tradition
Last month, in the runup to COP 16, the National Congress of American Indians called upon the US State Department and the UN to create a new category of Indigenous Nation…
Read moreLackey Journalism
Reading yesterday’s IPS report on COP 16, I am reminded of earlier conferences, where the European forces of globalization divided up other peoples’ lands by international agreement. Not having transcripts…
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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