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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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) laud free trade as a doctrine of economic growth, prosperity, and development. Free trade agreements (FTAs), agreements between two…
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Introducing another of our accomplished authors, we have Robert Hansell’s “Indigenous Food Sovereignty: A Thematic & Case Study Literature Review.” We are thrilled to publish a piece that resonates so…
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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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Indigenous peoples experience “in-hospital COVID-19 mortality rates two to three times higher than other people” in the United States. According to a JAMA public health study, they also suffer among…
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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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The Trumplicans of the US government announced a week or so ago that it would force American Indians to comply with their policy that Indians must comply with Medicaid work…
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The Center for Traditional Medicine gladly shares it’s collection of scholarly papers with the public to shed more light on the knowledge of the ages. These are the new added…
read moreTwenty-five Tulalip, Muckleshoot and Colville Tribal members earned Center for Traditional Medicine Herbal Medicines Certificates after nine-months of intensive studies under the instruction of Valerie Segrest from the Muckleshoot Tribe….
read moreSeventy years after the first nuclear bomb detonation in 1945 as of July 2015 indigenous peoples’ territories and peoples remain at greatest health and environmental risk to radioactive and toxic…
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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