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I’ve often remarked that indigenous connections with landscape reflect a continuity of both location and observance recorded in aboriginal memory systems. Reading Sahara: A Natural History by Marq de Villiers…

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Aboriginals say the Australian government is out of step by attempting to suspend cultural heritage laws in order to dump radioactive waste on their traditional lands. In Muckaty Voices, a…

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Killing Kyoto Bolivia believes that on an issue that affects the whole of humanity, we cannot make decisions in small unrepresentative forums, whether it is a group of 20 nations…

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If you think food, medicine, and indigenous knowledge are serious subjects, then you might be interested in the work of CWIS Associate Scholar, Anke Weisheit. Anke is clearly someone who…

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Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared plans a showdown with Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission next week in Winnipeg. FRD spokesman Kevin Annett says that without naming names and prosecuting…

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Martin McGuinness calls for expulsion of the Israeli ambassador from Ireland.

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Barrick Gold, the largest mining company in the world, is the subject of a new report by Amnesty International. Implicated in generating police brutality against indigenous inhabitants of Papua New…

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Canada’s Forked Tongue Amnesty International joins the Assembly of First Nations in bringing the Canadian government before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. Canada, which currently discriminates against Indian children in…

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In lieu of the latest developments in self-replicating synthetic bacteria cell production at the J. Craig Venter Institute and Silver Lining’s Cloud Whitening Technology development, the Subsidiary Body on Scientific,…

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As noted at Harper’s, the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is an everyday occurrence in the Niger Delta, where indigenous inhabitants cannot fish, farm, or breathe as a…