Over New Year, the Planet Earth international seminar was held in Chiapas to discuss the importance of the 1994 Zapatista uprising in context of resistance to neoliberalism now taking place…
Read moreSometimes it helps to remember where you came from. In this Wikipedia snapshot of CWIS, we can trace our current efforts to those of our founders and the predecessor organization…
Read moreIn a recent YES! Magazine article entitled Beyond “Free” or “Fair” Trade: Mexican Farmers Go Local, Mike Wold highlights the devastating effects that NAFTA has had on indigenous campesinos (farmers)…
Read moreArno Kopecky writes in The Tyee that Canada is beginning to feel like Peru; having covered the conflict between Peruvian President Garcia and indigenous peoples there, Kopecky notes the demonizing…
Read moreIn asking the question whether the UN will live up to its commitment to indigenous peoples, Intercontinental Cry notes the notorious track record of the institution in marginalizing indigenous peoples…
Read moreThe Great Laws of Nature, a video posted via Intercontinental Cry, highlights the positive, systemic effects that the revitalization of local, indigenous agriculture has had on the Muskoday First Nation. …
Read moreIndian Country Today looks at sexual violence and the trafficking of native women and children. CWIS Associate Scholar Melissa Farley discusses the connection between homelessness, poverty and prostitution.
Read moreAboriginal leaders in Canada are disturbed by the behavior of the Prime Minister and his cabinet in promoting oil pipelines through indigenous territories prior to environmental review. As if it…
Read moreWhen modern states like Chile and the United States abandon all pretense of being democratic political entities, the citizenry and indigenous nations of these states have only one option left:…
Read moreCanada’s Oil Tar Sands mining in northern Alberta is one of the world’s largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, and one of the dirtiest polluters of waterways on the planet….
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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