The four modes of social organization — tribes, institutions, markets, and networks — all intentionally utilize words to communicate their unique perspectives and preferences. Words are chosen for their effect…
read moreVoices in the Clouds, a short video about reconnecting with indigenous roots, rediscovers Atayal.
read moreTutoring Obama The Obama Administration is the first presidency to deny the right of travel to members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. As the six nations that tutored the founders of…
read moreDavid M. Green looks at the subject of international governance through the lens of the International Criminal Court, an institution opposed by the United States. The ICC is living testimony…
read moreThere is lots of power in indigenous knowledge holders coming together at international venues such as the conference on health promotion IUHPE currently taking place at Geneva. While in 2004…
read moreHigh Country News features the Southern Ute tribe in an examination of tribal self-determination under federal energy policy. As tribal sovereignty continues to evolve within the parameters set by a…
read moreHatewatch examines the widespread intolerance in Europe toward Roma.
read moreThe world is in the midst of a multiplicity of crisis, above all a `crisis of ideas.` We need a paradigmatic shift, an overall economic change, Dr. Sara Cook, Director,…
read moreDr. Rudolph Rÿser, CWIS Board Chairman, has accepted an invitation to deliver an address at the 4th Annual Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge, 2-5 August 2010,…
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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