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Atayal

Atayal

July 14, 2010

Voices in the Clouds, a short video about reconnecting with indigenous roots, rediscovers Atayal.

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Six Nations

Six Nations

July 13, 2010

Tutoring Obama The Obama Administration is the first presidency to deny the right of travel to members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. As the six nations that tutored the founders of…

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Moving Toward Maturity

Moving Toward Maturity

July 13, 2010

David M. Green looks at the subject of international governance through the lens of the International Criminal Court, an institution opposed by the United States. The ICC is living testimony…

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Sharing Narratives for Better Health

Sharing Narratives for Better Health

July 13, 2010

There is lots of power in indigenous knowledge holders coming together at international venues such as the conference on health promotion IUHPE currently taking place at Geneva. While in 2004…

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A Socialist Corporation

A Socialist Corporation

July 12, 2010

High Country News features the Southern Ute tribe in an examination of tribal self-determination under federal energy policy. As tribal sovereignty continues to evolve within the parameters set by a…

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Rousting Out Roma

Rousting Out Roma

July 12, 2010

Hatewatch examines the widespread intolerance in Europe toward Roma.

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Global Health Promotion

Global Health Promotion

July 11, 2010

The world is in the midst of a multiplicity of crisis, above all a `crisis of ideas.` We need a paradigmatic shift, an overall economic change, Dr. Sara Cook, Director,…

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Global AIDS Summit

Global AIDS Summit

July 11, 2010

Dr. Rudolph Rÿser, CWIS Board Chairman, has accepted an invitation to deliver an address at the 4th Annual Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge, 2-5 August 2010,…

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Symbiosis

Symbiosis

July 10, 2010

In covering the wild salmon campaign on Vancouver Island, Kim Petersen notes that while Norway adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Norwegian corporations farming salmon in…

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No to Autonomy

No to Autonomy

July 9, 2010

Intercontinental Cry reports on the mass mobilization in West Papua, where the pro-independence movement has rejected autonomy measures offered by Indonesia in lieu of self-determination.

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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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