In 1992, Rudolph Ryser’s groundbreaking report Anti-Indian Movement on the Tribal Frontier examined the Wise Use movement of industry-funded, anti-democratic, anti-environmental, anti-Indian activists. This was followed in 1994 by David Helvarg’s…
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Offsetting Resistance How is it that only now, a decade later–when the Tar Sands rapists, e.g. Sunoco, et al, are looming over the Salish Sea–their crimes against humanity are coming…
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Nuuca, the new short film by Algonquin filmmaker Michelle Latimer, focuses on the sexual violence against Indigenous women and girls by oil workers in the Bakken Fields. This unholy violence by…
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The power of moral sanction is central to rebuilding democratic society. An examination, therefore, of the strengths and weaknesses of this tool of social change is warranted. Moral sanction alone…
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Termination as U.S. Policy In May 2016, the paradox of dual citizenship for American Indian tribal members–caught in a legal system that is used as a weapon against them–was the topic…
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My tribe is nEoghan Ua Niall (Irish language), or Owen O’Neal (English language). Eoghan means noble. Niall means champion. Literally translated, we are the Noble Champion tribe. The apostrophe, frequently…
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Hate Radio As Dena Jensen reports, William Honea, Skagit County senior deputy prosecuting attorney –in justifying the CERA anti-Indian workshop in Mount Vernon, Washington on May 20–falsely attributed an incendiary quote…
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Fears of Pagan Socialism In Bron Taylor’s 20 April 2011 Religion Dispatches essay “Debate Over Mother Earth’s Rights Stirs Fears of Pagan Socialism”, he notes that, “Religious and political conservatives…
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Introduction As we recognize the Anti-Indian Movement on the Tribal Frontier 25-year anniversary, I recommend reading A Mandate from God: Christian White Supremacy in the US, which examines the driving force of…
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A Free Press On February 5, 2014, Gateway Pacific Terminal spokesman Craig Cole threatened Whatcom Watch with a SLAPP suit, which I covered for IC magazine in my February 8…
read moreThe 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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