Posts of: Jay Taber

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Kalahari Bushmen appeal Botswana High Court decision denying them use of wells after government evictions of the indigenous inhabitants from their homeland failed. Controlling access to groundwater has become a…

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Disappeared in Canada Amnesty International and the Red Cross call on the Canadian government to get in line with international law as a means of protecting indigenous women from appalling…

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Lewis and Clark Law School professor Robert J. Miller, Lisa M. Lesage, and Sebastian Lopez Escarcena examine how the Doctrine of Discovery has been incorporated into the ethnocentric policies of…

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Indian Country Today looks at fighting the digital divide over broadband funding.

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In his short film Apples and Indians, Lorne Olson discovers Anishinabe.

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Discrimination Down Under UN rebukes Australian government for entrenched discrimination against Aborigines, including official suspension of the racial discrimination act in order to intervene in Northern Territory indigenous communities.

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The Christian Science Monitor reports that the BP oil plume in the Gulf is 700 feet thick, 22 miles long, a mile wide, and 3,000 feet deep. So much for…

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Good Time God Eddie Stack writes from West Clare about Lughnasa, the Irish harvest festival honoring Lugh, the ancient god of arts and crafts. Unlike the Catholic adaptation, says Eddie,…

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One of the things Phil Williams discovered in his research on transnational criminal networks is that human trafficking for prostitution is an important component of organized crime portfolios, in some…

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Aboriginal Women’s Action Network takes on colonization, prostitution, and violence against indigenous women in Canada.