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

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Pandora's Box Reveals Identity

Pandora’s Box Reveals Identity

October 27, 2010

Watching the movie Avatar leads to many Indigenous perspectives on many contemporary issues, including the irony of a movie made for mass production and profits that speaks to enduring issues…

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State Department Cancels Cancun for Forestry Panel

State Department Cancels Cancun for Forestry Panel

October 27, 2010

The US Department of State canceled a “side-event” planned for the UN Conference of Parties 16 meeting in Cancun.  The session was to include tribal participants, but the UN would…

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Dissipation

Dissipation

October 27, 2010

Keeping focused on major spectacles of global issues or national plebiscites channels concerned citizens into ineffective venues where their energies can be dissipated without posing a threat to the established…

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Leak Reveals Push to Win Over First Nations on Controversial Boreal Forest Pact

Leak Reveals Push to Win Over First Nations on Controversial Boreal Forest Pact

October 27, 2010

A leaked document and email obtained by the Montreal Media Co-op shows major environmental organizations engaging in damage control while speedily attempting to court First Nations’ support for the Canadian…

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ATNI/USET

ATNI/USET

October 26, 2010

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians and the United South and Eastern Tribes sign covenant of friendship, cooperation, solidarity and trust.

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Media Indigena

Media Indigena

October 25, 2010

Media Indigena looks at the latest offerings from indigenous film. The American Indian Film Festival begins November 5 in San Francisco.

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When Two Worlds Collide

When Two Worlds Collide

October 24, 2010

In the apocalyptic film When Two Worlds Collide, the indigenous leader-in-exile from the Peruvian Amazon asks, “How will we organize ourselves to save the planet?”

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The Cultural Vortex of Modernity

The Cultural Vortex of Modernity

October 24, 2010

Many commentators including Indigenous scholars have continually raised the issues that settler-invader societies in Australia, Canada, the USA, and other synthetic nation states built on the backs of native people…

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Global CBD and Climate Agreements…Impossible

Global CBD and Climate Agreements…Impossible

October 23, 2010

The United Nations has been the venue for terribly important negotiations concerning biological diversity, climate change, intellectual property, and matters as disturbing as human trafficking. Despite the prodigious efforts of…

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Cashing in on Hate

Cashing in on Hate

October 23, 2010

One of the ironies of the current US military expansion in Central Africa, is that while homosexuals fight for their constitutional rights in our armed forces, the armed forces of…

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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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