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

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Partitioning Sudan: Self-Determination from Genocide

December 25, 2010

January 9, 2011 will be the day on which the Peoples of the Nuba Mountains and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) will have the opportunity to realize a decades…

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Murder for Money

December 25, 2010

Real News looks at the 18–year lawsuit by five indigenous tribes in the Ecuadorian rainforest against Chevron Texaco. The suit, in which Texaco was proven to have dumped billions of…

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Maintaining Traditional Governance

December 24, 2010

With Canada’s half-hearted endorsement of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples looming in the background, Algonquins in Quebec are challenging Ottawa to abandon Department of Indian Affairs…

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Moral Conscience

December 23, 2010

When the moral conscience of a society no longer tolerates overt attacks on indigenous cultures by the dominant powers, the powerful have to resort to covert operations and public relations…

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Abya Yala v Obama

December 22, 2010

Abya Yala, the indigenous communications network that met in Colombia last month, has issued a Declaration of The First Continental Summit of Indigenous Communications. The summit, called to develop plans…

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Double Standards

December 21, 2010

As Irish author David Cronin notes in his new book, the European Union is deeply in bed with Israel, which explains why when it comes to human rights, the EU…

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Faded From View

December 20, 2010

Americans by and large are immune to outrage over petty lying and graft. Slush funds, tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud—ordinary stuff. Then Wikileaks shined a light on the pathogens…

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Tanking Tar

December 19, 2010

The video Oil in Eden magnificently captures the spirit of life fiercely defended by Coastal First Nations and their friends in Canada’s British Columbia. United in opposition to Enbridge Oil’s…

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Genocide in Colombia

December 18, 2010

Colombia’s indigenous representatives call on Canada and Canada’s First Nations for protection from violence that threatens their very existence. UN special rapporteur on indigenous peoples James Anaya has called on…

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Big Trouble

December 18, 2010

In this post, Deputy Special Envoy Jonathan Pershing of the US State Department says that balance is the key to making progress on climate change. He also lauds transparency as…

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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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