In the 1990s, when I was embroiled in the property rights political turmoil that catalyzed the modern militia movement, the cast of characters engaged in vigilantism and the grievances they…
Read moreWhen I first encountered peyote in the powdered form known as mescaline, it was still a legal substance in the United States. That changed in 1970, but was later amended…
Read moreEnding the drug wars responsible for so much misery at the hands of US military proxies is slow going, but that hasn’t deterred the president of Bolivia from defending the…
Read moreAfter Cobell v Norton (Kempthorne, et al), anyone not in a coma is likely skeptical about the integrity of the U.S. Government when it comes to Indian affairs. The looting…
Read moreChevron is one of the largest corporations in the world and one, many people on the ground say, an irresponsible outlaw. Today a court in Ecuador found the Chevron corporation…
Read moreUnlike 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…
Read moreI 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…
Read moreAs 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…
Read moreRetired 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…
Read moreAs 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…
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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