Posts of: Jay Taber
Sustainable Sovereignty
Youth begin to turn Navajo away from fossil fuel dependence toward a more sustainable sovereignty.
Read moreAitheantas
Support for a Gaelic curriculum in the Irish Republic involves civil disobedience between Aitheantas and the Irish Department of Education. Support for the preservation of the Irish language, say Aitheantas…
Read moreRestoring Traditional Abundance
Wild Salmon Are Sacred The Wild Salmon Are Sacred campaign on Vancouver Island seeks to end marine industrial net-cage feedlots in British Columbia. Removing fish farms, say First Nations, is…
Read morePreserving Lushootseed
Preserving Lushootseed for Coast Salish is not just an urgent cultural project. It is an essential task in maintaining identity and connections to traditional values.
Read moreDancing the Salmon Home
The Winnemem Wintu tribe from near Mount Shasta is seeking assistance from New Zealand in restoring their Chinook salmon run devastated by the US government.
Read moreThe Role of Tribalism
Recent op-eds in the progressive press on tribalism and indigeneity reveal ongoing misperceptions. Perhaps this brief discussion on the role of tribalism in the world today will help.
Read moreHarmonious Ends
The metaphor of a collision course could be improved on. The capitalist system has been devouring the natural order for centuries; the human and environmental disaster is not something over…
Read moreInvestigating Discovery
A groundbreaking report examining the roots of Christian domination over indigenous peoples and their lands was released this week at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The report…
Read moreThe Natural Order
In Cut Stones and Crossroads: A Journey in the Two Worlds of Peru, Ronald Wright encounters such literary figures as Waman Puma, an Inca philosopher from the 1600s, whose writings…
Read moreThe Business of Climate Change
The Dominion‘s Dawn Paley interviews Chiapas social activist Gustavo Castro Soto about the upcoming COP16 summit, scheduled for November in Cancun. “After 16 sessions of COP”, says Soto, “things are…
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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