Posts of: Rÿser Rudolph C.
Taxing Tribal Resources
States’ governments like the US, Canada and Mexico are looking for new revenue sources that can be tapped without much political blow-back from voters. Tribal natural resources and economic activities…
Read moreUS Swings “Right”: Indigenous Peoples’ Warning
The US government has been generally hostile to indigenous peoples for most of the last 45 years in the international arena. Their concern? “Indigenous peoples may want to invoke political…
Read moreAccess & Benefit: Genes
Nagoya, Japan – The 10th Conference of Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity produced a truly wilted plan for governments, non-governmental organizations, businesses and indigenous peoples to meet the…
Read moreState Department Cancels Cancun for Forestry Panel
The US Department of State canceled a “side-event” planned for the UN Conference of Parties 16 meeting in Cancun. The session was to include tribal participants, but the UN would…
Read moreGlobal CBD and Climate Agreements…Impossible
The United Nations has been the venue for terribly important negotiations concerning biological diversity, climate change, intellectual property, and matters as disturbing as human trafficking. Despite the prodigious efforts of…
Read moreCanada Obstructing Indigenous Peoples – CBD
During the long years when indigenous peoples spent their very limited resources to travel to Geneva, Switzerland to help formulate language for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous…
Read moreAnti-Indian Movement Again
When ever privileged male voters in the United States believe their status and privileges are about to be challenged, they turn on the economically weakest with a vengeance. “Wealth has…
Read moreUnited States’ Brain on Drugs
There can be no doubt that Mexico, Columbia, Peru, Afghanistan, and Burma produce prodigious amounts of drugs: marijuana, cocaine, meth, heroin and more. But, what isn’t generally stated in the…
Read moreHlib Jiangl Naox Niex
Hlib Jiangl Naox Niex Amy Eisenberg, Ph.D. Sonoma County Indian Health Project dramyeis@yahoo.com Photography by John Amato, RN Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital ICU jamato8@yahoo.com http://www.pbase.com/jamato8/hmong_new_year_celebration_guizhou_province_china_2005_2006_ While serving as an International…
Read moreIshi: A Story of Dignity, Hope and Courage
The California Indian Museum and Cultural Center Proudly Presents:Ishi: A Story of Dignity, Hope and CourageThis wonderful new exhibit that opened January 31, 2009 is at the California Indian Museum…
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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