Category: Environment

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Settler colonial powers have consistently attempted to erase and replace Native peoples by attacking their food systems (Burnett, Hay, and Chambers, 2016) through strategies like banning traditional foods and ceremonies,…

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The Fourth World Journal invites submissions for a special edition on Indigenous women in traditional medicine. This issue will explore their critical role in health, resistance, and environmental sustainability. Scholars, practitioners, and activists are encouraged to contribute studies, narratives, and policy analyses highlighting Indigenous knowledge systems and decolonial healthcare approaches.

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Continuing our series of video abstracts from our published authors, we are excited to introduce Laura Corradi, whose piece “Siekopai Human Ecology Achieves Land Rights Victory” is featured in our…

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Presenting more highlights from our new Fourth World Journal, Winter 2025 Issue, we want to showcase Marine Gauthier’s article “Re-territorializing Climate Governance: The REDD+ Initiatives in the DR Congo” Gauthier’s…

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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….

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We are excited to present our latest blog series celebrating the launch of the Fourth World Journal: Volume 24(2), Winter 2025 Issue. In this edition, our remarkable contributors delve into…

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How can the exercise of global indigenous sovereignty counter the growing destruction caused by the climate crisis?  A 2012 interview with CWIS founder Dr. Rudolph Rÿser, republished in our most…

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Honorable Chair of the Tohono O’odham Nation, Verlon Jose kindly asks us all to respect every twig and rock in their sacred homeland. We make every effort to live by…

• Artby - Rudolph Ryser
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The construction, operation, and eventual decommissioning of the Hanford Site, a nuclear production complex in eastern Washington, is an ongoing, devastating experience for the people of the Yakama Nation. Despite…

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It may seem commonplace today to talk about the co-management of natural resources by tribal communities and different state and federal agencies but rewind 50 years, and the notion was…