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

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Amazigh Congress

Amazigh Congress

January 8, 2011

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,…

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Building Hope

Building Hope

January 7, 2011

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…

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Reforming Sudan

Reforming Sudan

January 6, 2011

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…

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Fighting for Freedom

Fighting for Freedom

January 5, 2011

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…

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Art and Science

Art and Science

January 3, 2011

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…

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End of Decade, Start of 21st Century and Red Moon

End of Decade, Start of 21st Century and Red Moon

January 2, 2011

When centuries change, there is about a twenty year period of transition from one to the other. The twentieth century didn’t really get going in music, technology, government and life…

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Serious Surrender

Serious Surrender

December 31, 2010

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…

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Indigenous Perspective

Indigenous Perspective

December 30, 2010

Indian Country Today provides an indigenous perspective on Cancun.

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Pause to Think

Pause to Think

December 28, 2010

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…

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State of Greed

State of Greed

December 28, 2010

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.

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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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