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

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Remarks offered at Diabetes, Holistic Gathering

March 23, 2010

For many years the Center for World Indigenous Studies has pioneered education, research and public policy concerning the restoration of native foods and medicines as a part of a wider…

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Great White North

March 23, 2010

Canada pays lip service to UNDRIP; British Columbia plans energy industry public relations campaign designed to marginalize and co-opt First Nations.

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Testify

March 22, 2010

Iroquois, Sioux, and Navajo testify against the United States before the UN Human Rights Council. Written testimony via e-mail open through April 19.

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Restitution

March 21, 2010

Reviving Our Culture, Mapping Our Future, a film about a gathering of indigenous leaders from South Africa, Russia, and the Amazon, offers a road map for restitution.

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Cochabamba Climate Talks

March 19, 2010

Bolivia to host peoples’ climate talks April 19-22 in Cochabamba.

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Banning Blood Money

March 19, 2010

Berkeley Students Divest Berkeley student senate votes in favor of UC divestment in US companies supporting the Israeli military.

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Coming Together

March 18, 2010

I was just reading a casual exchange between some British and Portuguese bloggers, and they mentioned how every town and village in their respective countries has citizen’s advice centres, where…

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Lives at Risk

March 17, 2010

Amazonia for Sale, the online film from Peru, documents the fight of the Awajun and Wampis to defend their territory from the Peruvian government and mining companies. Using Internet videography,…

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The Right to Live

March 16, 2010

As I stood along the Sacapulas bridge rail, I glanced up and was startled to see a fully armed military patrol in camouflage gear marching toward me,. The line grew…

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Rights of Indigenous Peoples

March 15, 2010

The extension of citizenship rights to peoples that have been dispossessed and subsumed by the very States that are granting these rights is simply a form of internal colonialism. Indeed,…

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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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