Given the potential for genocide and ethnic cleansing in Central Africa, the African Commission’s Working Group on Indigenous Populations reports on the Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of Congo…
read moreWhile the UN and its agencies are competent at documenting the plight of indigenous peoples in the world, the institution itself is often complicit in the harms caused by transnational…
read moreIt’s never been easy surviving as an indigenous person in Brazil, but in the era of human rights and multiculturalism, it’s shocking to witness hit men hired by ranchers for…
read moreBack in May, Winona LaDuke discussed the mutual healing process of apology and redemption and sacred relationships with food and the land.
read moreA few years back, CWIS fellow and Yakama Nation elder Russell Jim told of his youth and his rescue by his aunt from government run Indian boarding schools in the…
read moreThe recent loss of the Schaghticoke Nation’s community pavilion to arson is tragic enough, but the fact that tribal leaders believe it is the consequence of actions by the State…
read moreIf you look at the sum of UN programs rather than its pieces, a different picture emerges. As storytellers, it is our task to paint that picture through narratives that…
read moreThe governments of Germany and Russia have teamed up to bring the Nenet people of the Yamal Peninsula into the modern age through energy development on their indigenous territory. The…
read moreGlobalization clearly got off on the wrong foot with 15th and 16th century European explorers seeking to plunder indigenous peoples’ property. As the Indian Law Resource Center reports, the World…
read moreIf art is the essence of life, then love and beauty are its expression. One way we express these human sensibilities is by communicating through the visual medium. With the…
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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