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

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Christian Junkets

August 11, 2009

Globetrotting Grifters As an example of applied research in action, we showcase Bruce Wilson’s piece on Congressional Christian junkets.

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Modern American Politics

August 10, 2009

Indispensable Enemies The one book to read on the American political system. –Sanders Research Associates

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Ecuador’s Amazonian Indian Confederation Faces Varied Threats

August 10, 2009

Approximately 100 representatives of Ecuador's Amazonian Indian nations recently gathered in the community of Union Base, near the southeastern town of Puyo, to celebrate the inauguration of new leadership for…

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Framing Fascism

August 8, 2009

In her recent article, Sara Robinson argues the United States is well on its way to becoming a totalitarian, fascist state. As evidence of this inevitability, she cites current town…

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Erdogan Meets DTP Leader for the First Time Ever to Speak About Turkish Plan on Kurdistan

August 8, 2009

For the first time since it was founded in 2005, leaders of the Democratic Society Party (DTP), the main Kurdish political party in Northern Kurdistan, have held a meeting with…

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Dispossession

August 7, 2009

Adalah Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel new interactive map and database on the history of the state of Israel’s expropriation of land from the Palestinian people.

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Rock Paper Scissors

August 6, 2009

GOP-sponsored vigilantism has happened before. It is an integral part of domestic terrorism aimed at ethnic minorities and other sub-populations targeted by White Nationalism and Christian Fundamentalism. Catholics, Jews, Blacks,…

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Time to Settle

August 6, 2009

There are many ways President Obama can express token appreciation of Native Americans, and indeed he has availed himself of some of these. But if Obama wants to do something…

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An Open Question

August 5, 2009

Yukon Kings and caribou join buffalo in spirit world. Anti-depressant use soars. Disappearance of indigenous cultural icons like buffalo, salmon, and caribou isn’t just traumatic to tribal peoples. Ironically,  it…

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Politics of Medicine

August 4, 2009

August 2009 issue of Himal magazine looks at the politics of medicine in South Asia.

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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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