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Amazigh Congress
Intercontinental Cry reports on the International Federal Council of the World Amazigh Congress held recently in Marrakech. As Berbers and Tuareg seek to maintain their Amazigh identity across North Africa,…
Read moreBuilding Hope
As noted in this photo essay on COP 16, indigenous peoples might have been excluded from UN climate change talks in Cancun, but they were not silenced. As The Dominion…
Read moreReforming Sudan
Sudanese human rights activists Ali Agab and Abdel Monim Elgak discuss with Amnesty International the need to strengthen civil society in order to restrain the racist theocracy now ruling with…
Read moreFighting for Freedom
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 moreArt and Science
A 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 moreSerious Surrender
Glenn 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 moreIndigenous Perspective
Indian Country Today provides an indigenous perspective on Cancun.
Read morePause to Think
As 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 moreState of Greed
The 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 moreRhetoric and Reality
In 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 moreChief George Manuel Memorial Indigenous Library
The 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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