Strong Society As Patsy Whitefoot, president of the National Indian Education Association, observes, there are some things you can’t learn in school. For the Yakama elder, culture and identity are…
read morePBS Pablum? Is the PBS series on Native Americans, We Shall Remain, yet another noble savage saga, instilling sympathy in whites and hopelessness in contemporary Indians? Is Steven Newcomb of…
read moreTim Giago tells the Lakota view of Little Bighorn, and why Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho descendants of that battle are proud of their victory over General Custer and the Seventh…
read moreNo Justice No Peace Many of the destabilized societies of the world were once colonized by Great Britain: Afghanistan, Australia, Iraq, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Sudan, to name a few….
read moreAfter centuries of diaspora and displacement, identities are increasingly complex. For those whose tribal identity has been extinguished — as in most Europeans of North America — what’s left of…
read moreIt is more than ironic that those who came of age and consciousness in time for the first Earth Day in 1970, now find hope not in the leader of…
read moreOne of the things I learned studying effective political leadership — from South Africa to Northern Ireland — is that democracy is achieved in large part by communicating. Proposing one’s…
read moreICERD Guide Minority Rights Group International has published a downloadable guide for NGOs on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The manual on ICERD…
read moreThe only way you could identify the Earth’s destroyers as “humankind” would be to exempt tribal people from the category of “human.” Otherwise you would have to admit that it…
read moreThe evolution of tribes into multicultural entities embracing each other as well as non-tribal peoples, holds promise not only for the continuity of indigenous cosmologies, but also for the future…
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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