Category: Daily
CWIS in Uganda
In May 2009, CWIS Associate Scholar Anke Weisheit was appointed Principle Investigator (PI) for Uganda Mbarara University of Science and Technology. As PI, Anke is leading the Uganda components of…
Read moreDemocrats on Climate Change
Shoring Up Showboating Michael J. Smith covers the attack on science by Democratic Party “think tanks” covering for the party’s failure to effectively address climate change. Reminiscent of the Republican…
Read morePsychic Sacrilege
As icons of the American experience, the tribes that defeated the Seventh Cavalry still play a central role in our mythology and psychic evolution. Attacked by the US Army for…
Read moreCeding Sovereignty
With the new Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff announcing a plan to implement a counterinsurgency in Afghanistan modeled on that of the plan used by the US…
Read moreGetting Real
As dominant society venues for participation in UN climate change talks go virtual, indigenous peoples are getting real. Jay Taber, Rudolph Rÿser and Renee Davis provide historical perspective on the…
Read moreBlood for Oil
As President Obama announces his plans for accelerated development in Africa, one is reminded that a quarter of the Earth’s mineral resources are located there, including substantial oil reserves. As…
Read moreSaving the Planet
Taking Down the System Writing in Orion magazine, Derrick Jensen argues that piety is a dead end. Saving the planet, he says, requires taking down the system.
Read moreEgregious Glitter
No governments hold Canadian corporations accountable for murder.
Read moreAnti-Indigenous Axis
The crackdown on Uyghurs in China, like the systematic brutality of Israel toward Palestinians, betrays the promise of universal human rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948. More recently,…
Read moreChief 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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