Posts of: Jay Taber
Perpetuating Pinochet
The United Nations Human Rights Council and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights accuse the Chilean government of violating international standards of justice by its persecution of the indigenous Mapuche…
Read moreDefence of Children
Palestine Chronicle cites a CNN report about charges of sexual abuse of Palestinian children by Israeli Defense Forces. Topping the list of violations of Geneva Conventions by the IDF is…
Read moreIndian Fighter
The Dominion looks at the newly appointed Minister of Indian Affairs, John Duncan. Duncan, a former MP and long time employee of the timber industry in Canada, has a track…
Read moreBody Mind and Spirit
On Monday September 13, 2010, Leslie Korn — director of the Center for Traditional Medicine — will present at the Mayo Clinic Conference on Changing Patterns of Cancer in Native…
Read moreEscaping Education
In Solidarities of Resistance, The Dominion looks at the capitalist concept of education and its impact on indigenous youth in Canada. Gustavo Esteva, author of Escaping Education, notes that the…
Read moreMonoculture
The Ethics of Ethanol A consortium of indigenous peoples and NGOs pressures the World Bank to cease funding monoculture palm oil plantations used in ethanol production. Expansion of plantation development…
Read moreHigher Education
Indian Country Today looks at the indigenous programs at the University of Victoria, a cutting edge institution in facilitating the indigenous perspective in higher education.
Read moreGetting Organized
Natives of the Peruvian Amazon are organizing a political party to challenge the post-colonial state and present their human rights grievances before international institutions.
Read moreTerritory of Mapuche
Pascual Pichun Collonao, a twenty-seven year old journalism student, is serving five years in a Chilean prison for burning a logging truck. Along with the seventy other Mapuche political prisoners…
Read moreA Christian Idea
In Native Nations, Shawnee law professor Robert J. Miller discusses Manifest Destiny, U.S. law and the Doctrine of Discovery with Umatilla television’s Philosopher Seed.
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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