A 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 moreCablegate, the Wikileaks exposure of State Department conspiracies for lying and spying, does not spell the end of secret government in America, but it is a beginning. By hosting a…
read moreWhen the American company Bechtel tried to privatize water in Bolivia, they helped to foment an indigenous peoples’ rebellion. That rebellion, in turn, established an indigenous head of state who…
read moreEcotrust Awards will be presented in Portland Oregon today to four innovative indigenous leaders from western Canada and the US. Working in health, education, communications and political organizing, the recipients…
read moreDuring the last forty years since the UN Commission on Human Rights designated José Martinez Cobo as the Special Rapporteur responsible for conducting the “Study of the Problem of Discrimination…
read moreThe indigenous communities of Oaxaca have been engaged in a life and death struggle against a corrupt and ruthless state for decades. In the aftermath of the 2006 rebellion, native…
read moreOn November 16 in Albuquerque, the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development bestowed honors on ten recipients for contributions in governance, including the international tribal environmental restoration initiative, Coast…
read moreOne of the myths deposed by the Wikileaks US State Department embassy cable cache is the notion of diplomacy as a benign exercise above the fray of dirty dealing that…
read moreBen Powless reports from the Alberta Tar Sands, where Environment Canada’s blind faith in Canada Natural Resources Limited allowed the oil company to discharge toxic tailings onto the muskeg where…
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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