How can the exercise of global indigenous sovereignty counter the growing destruction caused by the climate crisis? A 2012 interview with CWIS founder Dr. Rudolph Rÿser, republished in our most…
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In 1992, Rudolph Ryser’s groundbreaking report Anti-Indian Movement on the Tribal Frontier examined the Wise Use movement of industry-funded, anti-democratic, anti-environmental, anti-Indian activists. This was followed in 1994 by David Helvarg’s…
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Honorable Chair of the Tohono O’odham Nation, Verlon Jose kindly asks us all to respect every twig and rock in their sacred homeland. We make every effort to live by…
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At the time of this writing — mid-February 2024 — we are rapidly approaching the 73rd National Basketball Association’s (NBA) All-Star Game, an event that enjoys an international broadcast. Consequently,…
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We are thrilled to announce the release of the first of two Fourth World Journal special editions commemorating the life and work of CWIS founder Dr. Rudolph Rÿser. In this…
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Dr. Rudolph Carl Rÿser was born in Elma, Washington, in 1946 to Ruth Gilham and Ernst Ryser as the youngest of eight children in Chehalis territory and with an extended…
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Many answers to contemporary world problems, especially climate change, are already known, especially when considering indigenous knowledge systems. The key is to learn how to find this knowledge and foster…
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Dr. Leo Mukosi, is a former intern and our current colleague at the Center for World Indigenous Studies appointed on May 23rd this year as an Expert Member for Southern…
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Subscribe Fourth World nations worldwide claim and assert autonomy or self-government. These nations assert the power to exercise political, social, strategic, and cultural dominance over their peoples and ancestral territories….
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Before we can understand others, we must understand ourselves. Where do you come from? Who do you come from? What is the history of your people? What is your relation…
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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