In 2007, four countries in the world opposed the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. In 2008, the police and…
Read moreWhat was it that made Celts Celts as they migrated over centuries from the Caucasus Mountains across the northern Mediterranean and the Iberian Peninsula to the British Isles? According to…
Read moreReading the current issue of First Nations Strategic Bulletin (unfortunately not available online), I was reminded of the book The Science of Coercion. In the articles and commentary by leading…
Read moreThe following press release comes from a colleague in Juba, South Sudan. It serves as an example of what indigenous people in South Sudan are doing in order to reorganize…
Read moreOn November 9, CWIS associate Taiaiake Alfred spoke at the University of Ottawa on The Psychic Landscape of Contemporary Colonialism. Recounting his own intellectual preparation in understanding the struggle for…
Read moreUCLA professor Duane Champagne always has something interesting to say about indigenous peoples and their struggle for self-determination. His new book, Notes from the Center of Turtle Island, promises to…
Read moreAs noted on Intercontinental Cry, the Ogoni peoples of Nigeria have established their own Environmental Protection Agency to hold oil companies accountable for environmental crimes on Ogoni territory.
Read moreMother Earth Journal reports on the disappearance of the world’s largest reindeer herd. Plummeting from nearly a million animals to under one hundred thousand in just forty years, the Caribou…
Read moreReminiscent of the Reagan era, Central America is again the target for US-funded state violence against socialists and indigenous peoples. This time around, however, the Obama Administration is promoting the…
Read moreSurvival International reports on conservation and ethnic cleansing in Kenya.
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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