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

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Fast Track Contract

September 20, 2010

Fast-track mining contracts in Palawan, backed by the Armed Forces of the Phillipines, may be illegal, but they are also indicative of the underlying reality obscured by UN biosphere designations,…

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The Meaning of Place

September 18, 2010

In his talk Indigenous Resurgence and Traditional Ways of Being, University of Victoria Professor Gerald Taiaiake Alfred examines the fundamental challenges facing indigenous peoples and their friends in confronting the…

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A Foreign Concept

September 17, 2010

Resolution v God The San Carlos Apache make a stand for what God gave them and the largest copper mining company in the world wants to destroy. As with all…

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Mining Madness

September 16, 2010

Intercontinental Cry exposes Canada’s plans to drain pristine lakes on First Nations’ lands to use as basins for dumping toxic mining waste.

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Perpetuating Pinochet

September 15, 2010

The United Nations Human Rights Council and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights accuse the Chilean government of violating international standards of justice by its persecution of the indigenous Mapuche…

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Defence of Children

September 14, 2010

Palestine Chronicle cites a CNN report about charges of sexual abuse of Palestinian children by Israeli Defense Forces. Topping the list of violations of Geneva Conventions by the IDF is…

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Indian Fighter

September 13, 2010

The Dominion looks at the newly appointed Minister of Indian Affairs, John Duncan. Duncan, a former MP and long time employee of the timber industry in Canada, has a track…

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Body Mind and Spirit

September 12, 2010

On Monday September 13, 2010, Leslie Korn —  director of the Center for Traditional Medicine — will present at the Mayo Clinic Conference on Changing Patterns of Cancer in Native…

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United States’ Brain on Drugs

September 10, 2010

There can be no doubt that Mexico, Columbia, Peru, Afghanistan, and Burma produce prodigious amounts of drugs: marijuana, cocaine, meth, heroin and more. But, what isn’t generally stated in the…

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Escaping Education

September 9, 2010

In Solidarities of Resistance, The Dominion looks at the capitalist concept of education and its impact on indigenous youth in Canada. Gustavo Esteva, author of Escaping Education, notes that the…

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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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