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

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Studying Aboriginals

Studying Aboriginals

December 15, 2010

Rick Harp of Media Indigena provides an Indigenous Research Roundup.

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Fighting For Change

Fighting For Change

December 15, 2010

Calling the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples a path to respect and reconciliation, Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo speaks on fighting for change.

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Manifest Injustice

Manifest Injustice

December 15, 2010

As a participant in the Modern Indian Identity series of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, Walter Echo-Hawk of the Native American Rights Fund spoke…

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Dirty Secrets

Dirty Secrets

December 14, 2010

As reported by Al Jazeera, Shell Oil essentially rules the state of Nigeria. In addition to the Wikileaks release of Shell documents, The Real News Network recently held a webcast…

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Healing on Hold

Healing on Hold

December 13, 2010

Angela Sterritt reports on the fine work of the Native Women’s Association of Canada, and examines their betrayal by the Canadian government. As the leading advocate for aboriginal women with…

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Compromising with Capitalism

Compromising with Capitalism

December 12, 2010

Bolivian President Evo Morales spoke at Cancun yesterday, observing that compromising with capitalism is cheating mankind and killing Mother Earth.

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An Unseemly Tradition

An Unseemly Tradition

December 11, 2010

Last month, in the runup to COP 16, the National Congress of American Indians called upon the US State Department and the UN to create a new category of Indigenous Nation…

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Lackey Journalism

Lackey Journalism

December 11, 2010

Reading yesterday’s IPS report on COP 16, I am reminded of earlier conferences, where the European forces of globalization divided up other peoples’ lands by international agreement. Not having transcripts…

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Market-Based Climate Schemes: Rejected

Market-Based Climate Schemes: Rejected

December 10, 2010

Indigenous peoples’ representatives in Cancun, México have flatly rejected the market-based approach to global warming called REDD (United Nations Reduction of Emissions for Deforestation and Forest Degradation). Thousands of indigenous…

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Hoodwinking Harpies

Hoodwinking Harpies

December 10, 2010

Having successfully undermined legally binding carbon emission reductions for major polluters like Canada, the US and China, the United States team at Cancun is now moving full court press on…

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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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