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Category: Artby - Rudolph Ryser

Fourth World Journal: Special Commemorative Edition

Fourth World Journal: Special Commemorative Edition

January 17, 2024

We are thrilled to announce the release of the first of two Fourth World Journal special editions commemorating the life and work of CWIS founder Dr. Rudolph Rÿser. In this…

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Bringing Forward Native Voices

Bringing Forward Native Voices

August 8, 2023

Many answers to contemporary world problems, especially climate change, are already known, especially when considering indigenous knowledge systems. The key is to learn how to find this knowledge and foster…

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Fourth World Journal<br>Summer 2023

Fourth World Journal
Summer 2023

July 26, 2023

Subscribe Fourth World nations worldwide claim and assert autonomy or self-government. These nations assert the power to exercise political, social, strategic, and cultural dominance over their peoples and ancestral territories….

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Decolonizing Identity

Decolonizing Identity

July 19, 2023

Before we can understand others, we must understand ourselves. Where do you come from? Who do you come from? What is the history of your people? What is your relation…

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Restoring the Yakama Homelands

Restoring the Yakama Homelands

July 6, 2023

The construction, operation, and eventual decommissioning of the Hanford Site, a nuclear production complex in eastern Washington, is an ongoing, devastating experience for the people of the Yakama Nation. Despite…

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Living with Purpose

Living with Purpose

June 26, 2023

Racism is a plague that has been interwoven with the colonization and development of the United States since its inception. Its effects on all people have been significant and enduring….

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Infiltrating the Anti-Indian Movement

Infiltrating the Anti-Indian Movement

June 20, 2023

As is generally the case in the United States, whenever an oppressed group wins rights for itself and others, there is a backlash against them. That has certainly been the…

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Grand Chief George Manuel, “Take Back Your Land”

Grand Chief George Manuel, “Take Back Your Land”

June 13, 2023

Remarks of Rudolph C. Ryser, Center for World Indigenous Studies 12 June 2023, On the Occasion of Tribute to Indigenous Leaders, North Vancouver, BC.   Grand Chief George Manuel is…

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The Republic of Armenia and the Nation of Ezidikhan to Cooperate in Support of NICT

The Republic of Armenia and the Nation of Ezidikhan to Cooperate in Support of NICT

May 16, 2023

Lalish, Ezidikhan (Iraq) 14 May 2023. The Ezidikhan government’s Justice Minister, Nallein Sowilo, has announced that the Armenian government will collaborate with Ezidikhan to promote the Nations’ International Criminal Tribunal…

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Ezidikhan Nation Completes Draft Charter for International Tribunal

Ezidikhan Nation Completes Draft Charter for International Tribunal

April 19, 2023

Lalish, Ezidikhan. 19 April 2023. The Ezidikhan government, in collaboration with CWIS has developed a permanent international tribunal and has completed the Working Draft of the Nations International Criminal Tribunal…

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Chief 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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