Posts of: Jay Taber
Working With Words
The four modes of social organization — tribes, institutions, markets, and networks — all intentionally utilize words to communicate their unique perspectives and preferences. Words are chosen for their effect…
Read moreAtayal
Voices in the Clouds, a short video about reconnecting with indigenous roots, rediscovers Atayal.
Read moreSix Nations
Tutoring Obama The Obama Administration is the first presidency to deny the right of travel to members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. As the six nations that tutored the founders of…
Read moreMoving Toward Maturity
David M. Green looks at the subject of international governance through the lens of the International Criminal Court, an institution opposed by the United States. The ICC is living testimony…
Read moreA Socialist Corporation
High Country News features the Southern Ute tribe in an examination of tribal self-determination under federal energy policy. As tribal sovereignty continues to evolve within the parameters set by a…
Read moreRousting Out Roma
Hatewatch examines the widespread intolerance in Europe toward Roma.
Read moreGlobal AIDS Summit
Dr. Rudolph Rÿser, CWIS Board Chairman, has accepted an invitation to deliver an address at the 4th Annual Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge, 2-5 August 2010,…
Read moreSymbiosis
In covering the wild salmon campaign on Vancouver Island, Kim Petersen notes that while Norway adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Norwegian corporations farming salmon in…
Read moreNo to Autonomy
Intercontinental Cry reports on the mass mobilization in West Papua, where the pro-independence movement has rejected autonomy measures offered by Indonesia in lieu of self-determination.
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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