Category: Arts and Culture

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• Fourth World Journal
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We’re excited to share the final blog in our Fourth World Journal: Volume 24, Winter Issue series! In this issue, Martha L. Schmidt, CWIS Board Member, reviews Elizabeth Esterling’s monograph…

• Arts and Culture
• Fourth World Journal
• People
• Traditional Knowledge

As we near the end of this series of blog posts about the latest issue of the Fourth World Journal, we are excited to present the article “Aillaquillen: The Island…

• Arts and Culture
• Environment
• Fourth World Journal
• People
• Traditional Knowledge

We are pleased to share another insightful piece from the new issue of the Fourth World Journal, “Pashtun Indigenous Knowledge and Resilience: Mitigating Climate Change in Northern Pakistan,” where Dr….

• Arts and Culture
• Fourth World Journal
• People

We’re excited to share the second blog in our Fourth World Journal: Volume 24, Winter Edition series! This edition dives into key themes of Indigenous knowledge, cultural preservation, and ecological…

• Arts and Culture
• Traditional Knowledge

The Day of the Dead, celebrated in Mexico on November 1st and November 2nd, has its origins in prehispanic times. Different Mesoamerican peoples worshiped death, but the tradition we celebrate…

• Artby - Rudolph Ryser
• Arts and Culture
• Human Rights
• Traditional Knowledge

As might be expected the tangible, educational successes borne from the implementation of indigenous knowledge has again slammed into bigoted, legislative and judicial barriers in a settler state (United States…

• Artby - Rudolph Ryser
• Arts and Culture
• Traditional Knowledge

[Purhépecha came from the four directions as one of the oldest peoples in México [Michoacán[ recognizing the four changing windows of time and one of those windows is what many…

• Artby - Rudolph Ryser
• Arts and Culture
• Environment

Hysteria rising from the dooms-day theologies grips large pieces of the world’s human population as they attempt to use the Mayan end-of-cycle date of December 21, 2012 (Winter Solstice) as…

• Artby - Heidi Bruce
• Arts and Culture
• Food Security

Sifting through the multitude of journals, articles, and blogs that emphasize the entanglement of challenges humans find themselves in with regards to the globalized food system can feel daunting:  a…

• Arts and Culture

Native Hawaiians held a cultural celebration in Nu’uanu in honor of Queen Emma 176th birthday on Jan. 2. A procession took place at the queen’s Summer Palace. Following traditional protocol…