Since 1963, when the UN ceded control of the former Dutch colony of West Papua to Indonesia, the West Papuan peaceful struggle for independence has been met with brutal repression…
read moreWith the entire Blackfeet Reservation leased to oil and gas companies, potential revenues come at the risk of groundwater contamination and other environmental losses. Apparently operating with less than full…
read moreUNPO reports on the United Nations Environment Program report on oil pollution in Ogoniland. Putting to rest Shell Oil’s false claims of sabotage as the culprit, UNEP documents Shell’s dumping…
read moreOver the last five hundred years, wealthy Europeans devastated the original societies of the Americas. Of course, they had a lot of enthusiastic help from less than wealthy Europeans, but…
read moreIn hard times, it is community that sees us through. An essential but often neglected part of nurturing community, especially when things fall apart, is mentoring. In this inter-generational exchange…
read moreBetrayed by covert relationships between an oil company and an NGO offering to assist indigenous peoples, the Guarani learn a valuable lesson about intermediaries.
read moreBefore the American oil boom in the Amazon that poisoned the land and rivers of indigenous peoples over the last half century, there was the rubber boom. As noted in…
read moreElectronic Intifada reports on the efforts of the UN and health care professionals in Gaza and the West Bank to treat post traumatic stress disorder in Palestinian children.
read moreIn this abstract, CWIS Associate Scholar Cristine Soliz discusses Native American literature, ceremony and law.
read moreLakota activist Debra White Plume explains the Oglala paradigm to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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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