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 moreThe 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 moreNagoya, 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 moreThe 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 moreThe 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 moreDuring 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 moreWhen 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 moreThere 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 moreThe Guardian just reported that an effort is underway at the UN to change the climate change negotiating rules contained in the Kyoto protocol. Attempts will be made in Bonn,…
read moreAs I suggested about a year ago, shortly after the US House of Representatives passed its version of climate change legislation, the Senate will fail to move on a Bill,…
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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