Posts of: Jay Taber
Anti-Indian Reader
Read more about the Anti-Indian Movement in the United States here.
Read moreUS vs Bolivia
Under Bolivia’s first indigenous president, the indigenous majority, plurinational state of Bolivia has made dramatic improvements in health, education and economic opportunity for its citizens. For a previously feudal society,…
Read moreThe Holy Spirit
While (at age 63) I am now a deist, I was raised Lutheran, until (in my adolescence) I began my quest for freedom from institutionalized religion–seeking a more personally meaningful…
Read moreHumanizing Native Peoples
Matika Wilbur, Swinomish/Tulalip photographer, gave a TEDx talk in Seattle: Surviving Disappearance, Re-Imagining and Humanizing Native Peoples
Read moreEagle and Condor
In October 2015, a delegation from Ecuador was welcomed at a longhouse on Oneida Nation territory. The gathering was the latest step in the development of an ongoing relationship between…
Read moreBlood Money
The French Treasury is receiving 500 billion dollars per year from African countries based on colonial debt they are forced to pay. Without this support extorted from Africa, France would…
Read moreTransformation
Professor Taiaiake Alfred of the University of Victoria program of Indigenous Governance discusses Research as Indigenous Resurgence. In the era of co-optation through colonial assimilating processes like recognition and reconciliation,…
Read moreAnnihilating Tribal Society
Modern states, through international institutions (i.e. International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and NATO), routinely annihilate peaceful tribal societies. As the dominant modern state, the United States combines these institutionalized enforcement…
Read moreNew World Order
In terms of relevance to the indigenous nations often referred to as the Fourth World, the rollouts from the COP21 gathering of UN member states, Wall Street-funded NGOs, and the…
Read moreApocalyptic Fascist Revenge
Chip Berlet discusses the fascistic demagoguery of Donald Trump, as an apocalyptic messenger for the Christian Right, and a demonizing orator for the White Nationalist Tea Party Movement.
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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