Having followed and chronicled the United Nations — in particular its conventions and other protocols affecting the extension of human rights to indigenous peoples — I think it is safe…
read moreAs I noted in this August 2008 testimonial, The Real News Network has broken new ground by including the indigenous perspective. As states like China and the US try to…
read moreKilling Navajo Uranium mining on Navajo land over the last seventy years has caused widespread cancer among Navajo communities, so much so that the Navajo Nation has banned all uranium…
read moreAs reported by Stephen Leahy from Cancun, the UN COP 16 climate change conference, like the one in Copenhagen, is a charade.
read moreObama’s death squads in West Papua, the Indonesian military special forces known as Kopassus, are now targeting indigenous religious leaders for assassination. In July, Barack Obama lifted the restrictions on…
read moreJoshua Tree reports from Cancun, where federal police harassment of the Mayan caravan has failed to prevent indigenous leaders from mobilizing an international convergence of indigenous communities against the corruption…
read moreDamian Carrington looks at Cablegate, realpolitik, and dirty tricks by the US State Department in undermining global action on climate change. Exposing examples of threats and bribes by Hillary’s henchmen,…
read moreChina and India are easing their opposition to US demands for climate compliance monitoring, reporting and verification for developing countries (a long time demand of the US government) and environmental…
read moreA while back, I wrote about Zuni Pueblo protector societies that maintain barriers against unhealthy influences on their people. More recently I came across another metaphor in the Apache Mountain…
read moreThe Center for World Indigenous Studies Associate Scholars Program calls upon the best and the brightest scholarly leaders worldwide who work with Fourth World Nations and will share their knowledge…
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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