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Asserting Native Resilience: Insights from Rudolph Rÿser on the Climate Crisis

Asserting Native Resilience: Insights from Rudolph Rÿser on the Climate Crisis

October 8, 2024

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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Stewardship and the Preservation of Life in the Tohono O’odham Haki:dag

Stewardship and the Preservation of Life in the Tohono O’odham Haki:dag

August 6, 2024

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…

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Restoring the Yakama Homelands

Restoring the Yakama Homelands

July 6, 2023

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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Dr. Gary Morishima: Working for Tribal Sovereignty at Quinault Nation

Dr. Gary Morishima: Working for Tribal Sovereignty at Quinault Nation

May 30, 2023

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…

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NGO as a Catalyst of Sustainability for Egongot Tribe

NGO as a Catalyst of Sustainability for Egongot Tribe

August 24, 2020

Giselle Morales has written a brief description drawn from the original article: Egongot Tribal Development and an NGO as a Catalyst for Sustainability by Ronnie Amatorio, Marilyn Dela Torre, Marivic Pajaro,…

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Thousand-year-old indigenous Burusho artifacts destroyed in Gilgit-Baltistan

Thousand-year-old indigenous Burusho artifacts destroyed in Gilgit-Baltistan

July 23, 2020

This blog highlights the work of Amir Wali Khan featured in the Center for World Indigenous Studies Fourth World Journal Winter 2020, Volume 19, Number 2.

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Buffalo Are the Backbone of Lakota Food Sovereignty

Buffalo Are the Backbone of Lakota Food Sovereignty

July 21, 2020

What is the link between the wellbeing and autonomy of indigenous peoples and animal poaching, along with the introduction of sugar, refined and canned foods, salts and preservatives? Read about the history of the buffalo nation and what they did about it.

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The Earth Begins Healing, COVID-19 opens attack on the Fourth World

The Earth Begins Healing, COVID-19 opens attack on the Fourth World

April 21, 2020

Dr. Rudolph Rÿser offers an analysis of the current pandemic of COVID-19, how coronavirus is affecting the indigenous peoples and the virus impact on the environment.

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Fear in the Face of Climate Change

Fear in the Face of Climate Change

January 15, 2019

Written By Michael Smetana Photos: Juliet Totten According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), indigenous peoples play a key role in global climate change efforts by…

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The Indigenous Bio-Cultural Strategy to Preserve Biodiversity in Two Years

The Indigenous Bio-Cultural Strategy to Preserve Biodiversity in Two Years

November 5, 2018

Ensuring the safety and continuity of the world’s 5000 Fourth World (indigenous) nations is a mandatory requirement to prevent global ecosystems’ collapse. The world’s indigenous nations are located in and…

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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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