In what might be termed a classic neoliberal response to the peaceful quest for freedom by indigenous peoples, the government of Chile recently attacked the Rapanui parliament, clubbing women and…
read moreA while back I quoted the late Haida artist William Reid as saying art is the essence of life. Having lived in Haida Gwaii, immersed in a living landscape housing…
read moreGlenn Morris, a scholar from the Fourth World Center for the Study of International Law and Politics, observes that the State Department report — documenting the conditional US endorsement of…
read moreIndian Country Today provides an indigenous perspective on Cancun.
read moreAs mentioned here previously, palm oil plantations — promoted by corporations marketing biofuel and other first world luxuries — come at the expense of forests, biodiversity, and the indigenous peoples…
read moreThe Oneida sovereignty struggle against the state of New York goes before the US Supreme Court in February. As noted earlier, the greed of the state is apparently insatiable.
read moreIn December 2009, when President Obama cut a back room deal at the UN gathering in Copenhagen, using threats and bribes to undermine indigenous peoples’ participation in climate change talks,…
read moreReal News looks at the 18–year lawsuit by five indigenous tribes in the Ecuadorian rainforest against Chevron Texaco. The suit, in which Texaco was proven to have dumped billions of…
read moreWith Canada’s half-hearted endorsement of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples looming in the background, Algonquins in Quebec are challenging Ottawa to abandon Department of Indian Affairs…
read moreWhen the moral conscience of a society no longer tolerates overt attacks on indigenous cultures by the dominant powers, the powerful have to resort to covert operations and public relations…
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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