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

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Dripping Lightning

Dripping Lightning

December 7, 2016

In Finnmark–located above the Arctic Circle in northern Norway on the Barents Sea–reindeer-herding is the core of Sami identity and culture. Challenges to the continuity of this 3,000-year-old culture include…

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Privatizing Reservations

Privatizing Reservations

December 5, 2016

Oil industry members of the Native American Affairs Coalition advising President Trump proposes making Indian Reservations private property. As noted at Reuter’s, “The plan dovetails with Trump’s larger aim of…

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Coming Home

Coming Home

November 30, 2016

Rupa Marya, MD and professor of medicine at UCSF, says veterans who served in the oil wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are supporting the Lakota at Standing Rock, and are…

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Trumplicans and Kleptocracy: The new Challenge

Trumplicans and Kleptocracy: The new Challenge

November 26, 2016

Kleptocracy is defined as a form of government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed. Frequently kleptocracies are ruled by corporate business leaders…

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Pentecostals Not Welcome

Pentecostals Not Welcome

November 26, 2016

Indigenous leaders in northern Colombia expelled a group of evangelical Christians from their community recently, saying the missionaries were contributing to the “physical, cultural and spiritual extermination of our ethnic…

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Anti-Indian President

Anti-Indian President

November 17, 2016

Trump bigotry is prelude to civil war.

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Stand-Off

Stand-Off

November 17, 2016

The Battle at Standing Rock

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Understanding Netwar

Understanding Netwar

November 15, 2016

To effectively fight fascism, one must understand netwar (networked psychological warfare).

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El Presidente

El Presidente

November 15, 2016

The National Indigenous Congress and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation will run a woman candidate for President of Mexico in 2018.

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American Purgatory

American Purgatory

November 13, 2016

Commander-in-Chief, thanks to Obama, is now synonymous with emperor. President Trump–whose reign was made possible by elite Democrats–will act accordingly. As will Vice President Pence–a Christian supremacist–whom Trump said will…

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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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