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In Memoriam: Dr. Rudolph C. Rÿser, Founding Chair, CWIS

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Attitude Makes a Difference

February 12, 2011

Unlike much of the country, tribes in California have no treaties with the United States. In fact, in the early days of statehood, California’s government paid a bounty on murdered…

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Shining a Light

February 11, 2011

I have occasionally written here about dominion theology and religious colonization as part of the indigenous experience that forms a backdrop to many of the ills and unresolved grievances we…

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The Andean Revolution

February 10, 2011

As Peru begins making payments to indigenous widows and disabled survivors of the 20-year war against the Quechua highlanders, Ecuador has arrested Shuar political figures currently organizing a nationwide indigenous…

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Cunning Ruse

February 9, 2011

Retired law professor Peter D’Errico writes in Indian Country Today that the Obama administration, while pretending to support American Indians, is undermining their rights under international law to control their…

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Health and Wealth

February 7, 2011

As this Wikileaks article from December 2009 notes, the issue of intellectual property has made the World Health Organization vulnerable to spying by the pharmaceutical industry. Already beholden to corporate…

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Food Security Overseas and at Home

February 6, 2011

Perhaps 1 billion or more of the world’s population suffer from material poverty and hunger with sixty-five percent of those living in just seven countries (WFP, 2010) [India, China, the…

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South Sudan: 99 Percent There

February 5, 2011

The 11 January plebiscite conducted in South Sudan concluded, when all the votes were turned in, ninety-nine percent (99%) in favor of the South separating from the North. According to…

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Indian Killer

February 5, 2011

As I noted in Thursday’s post, the Oneida president of the United South and Eastern Tribes, Brian Patterson, says it’s time for the Indian nations to challenge the plenary power…

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GMO Profits and killing the Seed

February 4, 2011

Political leaders, academic and corporate leaders alike credit bioengineering and related technologies as 21st century achievements that will feed the world and cure diseases. In just a few short years,…

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Fulfilling the Promise

February 3, 2011

United South and Eastern Tribes president Brian Patterson says the 565 federally recognized Indian tribes in the US must challenge the plenary power of Congress in order to fulfill the…

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Chief 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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