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

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For Our Ancestors

August 25, 2017

Hopi Navajo Ute and Zuni governments prepare for battle with Interior Department over Bears Ears National Monument.

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Trudeau’s Betrayal

August 10, 2017

As noted in The Walrus, “the principled politician who engaged with Idle No More protesters became the Prime Minister who boasted about building pipelines through our lands.”

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White Water

July 15, 2017

The WA GOP Senate is currently holding the capital budget hostage over the WA Supreme Court ruling on water rights. This is the focus of CERA recruitment, not fossil fuel…

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Racist Radio

May 23, 2017

As Dena Jensen reports, William Honea, Skagit County senior deputy prosecuting attorney –in justifying the CERA anti-Indian workshop in Mount Vernon on May 20–falsely attributed an incendiary quote to Swinomish…

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The Terminators

May 9, 2017

As the Indian Law and Policy Center reports, termination of Indian tribes as sovereign political entities is endemic in the current presidential administration. Taken as a whole, the agenda of…

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Privatizing Tribes

May 3, 2017

Interior Secretary Zinke says it’s time to make tribes corporations in order to accelerate coal and gas mining.

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Tribe Versus Tribe

May 2, 2017

Expect increasing conflict between energy tribes and environmental justice tribes.

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The People’s Land

May 1, 2017

Building a border wall through the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation, without the consent of the tribe, requires an act of Congress. Watch the CBS News video here.

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Conflagration

April 26, 2017

Cherry Point fossil fuel export developers now include the Petrogas propane facility at the former ALCOA plant. The propane trains from Canada and bomb trains from North Dakota–that share the…

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Genetic Continuity

April 25, 2017

10,000-year-old skeletons in Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Montana share genetic continuity with Indigenous Peoples living there today.

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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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