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

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Amazon Leaders Issue Ultimatum to Canadian Company

September 4, 2009

Leaders from the Awajun and Wampis People, in the Cordillera del Condor region of Peru, issued an ultimatum on Aug. 25 giving Dorato Resources Inc. 15 days to leave their…

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Indigenous World 2009

September 3, 2009

In the comprehensive report Indigenous World 2009, the evolving set of relations between indigenous nations and modern states is examined in detail. Within the new context of international human rights…

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Penalty for Drug Company’s Cheat for Illegal Drug Promos

September 3, 2009

It is a great warning to all drug manufacturers. Federal prosecutors called the world’s largest drug maker Pfizer a repeating corporate cheat for illegal drug promotions that plied doctors with…

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Dystopian Roadmap

September 2, 2009

Climate Change Overdrive As climate change goes into overdrive, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood becomes less a dystopian fiction and more a roadmap to reality.

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Earth’s Fridge Defrosting, With Dire Results

September 2, 2009

The rapidly warming Arctic region is destabilising Earth's climate in ways science is just beginning to comprehend.

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Treating Triumphant

September 1, 2009

Legislation for Extinction Mi’kmaw Associate Professor Dr. Bonita Lawrence of York University discusses the history of the regulation of indigenous civilizations in Canada through the control of native identity.

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Real Government

August 30, 2009

The assumptions Ms. Robinson makes about the status quo of wealth distribution as a “working system” that was “moving forward” belies her point of view that the Obama regime is…

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A Tenuous Situation

August 29, 2009

One obstacle in the process of being surmounted through indigenous netwar is the notion of the overlay of states comprising governments with legitimacy to decide on behalf of indigenous societies….

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Price of Gas

August 28, 2009

As the government of British Columbia rolls in dough from gas leases on aboriginal territory, pipelines from the questionably legal, highly-toxic wells have started blowing up. Six of them since…

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Impediment of Conformity

August 27, 2009

As Dan Junas once said, “It’s always worse than you think, and you never know until you look.” But first you have to be able to imagine the world might…

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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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