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

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Getting Organized

Getting Organized

September 6, 2010

Natives of the Peruvian Amazon are organizing a political party to challenge the post-colonial state and present their human rights grievances before international institutions.

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Territory of Mapuche

Territory of Mapuche

September 5, 2010

Pascual Pichun Collonao, a twenty-seven year old journalism student, is serving five years in a Chilean prison for burning a logging truck. Along with the seventy other Mapuche political prisoners…

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A Christian Idea

A Christian Idea

September 3, 2010

In Native Nations, Shawnee law professor Robert J. Miller discusses Manifest Destiny, U.S. law and the Doctrine of Discovery with Umatilla television’s Philosopher Seed.

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Conservation versus Tourism

Conservation versus Tourism

September 2, 2010

Kalahari Bushmen appeal Botswana High Court decision denying them use of wells after government evictions of the indigenous inhabitants from their homeland failed. Controlling access to groundwater has become a…

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Appalling Violence

Appalling Violence

September 1, 2010

Disappeared in Canada Amnesty International and the Red Cross call on the Canadian government to get in line with international law as a means of protecting indigenous women from appalling…

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Chile Today

Chile Today

August 31, 2010

Lewis and Clark Law School professor Robert J. Miller, Lisa M. Lesage, and Sebastian Lopez Escarcena examine how the Doctrine of Discovery has been incorporated into the ethnocentric policies of…

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The Broadband Barrier

The Broadband Barrier

August 30, 2010

Indian Country Today looks at fighting the digital divide over broadband funding.

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Discovering Anishinabe

Discovering Anishinabe

August 29, 2010

In his short film Apples and Indians, Lorne Olson discovers Anishinabe.

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Australia v Aborigines

Australia v Aborigines

August 28, 2010

Discrimination Down Under UN rebukes Australian government for entrenched discrimination against Aborigines, including official suspension of the racial discrimination act in order to intervene in Northern Territory indigenous communities.

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Indigenous Doctors Congress 2010

Indigenous Doctors Congress 2010

August 27, 2010

Indigenous doctors from throughout the Pacific are currently meeting during the Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress (PRIDoC) at Whistler, Canada home to the Squamish and Lil’wat First Nations. Born from…

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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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