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It was hard for Toppenish teachers to understand why a funeral could keep Yakama Nation students away from school for a week. Or why some tribal students would suddenly need…

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PBS Pablum? Is the PBS series on Native Americans, We Shall Remain, yet another noble savage saga, instilling sympathy in whites and hopelessness in contemporary Indians? Is Steven Newcomb of…

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Tim Giago tells the Lakota view of Little Bighorn, and why Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho descendants of that battle are proud of their victory over General Custer and the Seventh…

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No Justice No Peace Many of the destabilized societies of the world were once colonized by Great Britain: Afghanistan, Australia, Iraq, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Sudan, to name a few….

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After centuries of diaspora and displacement, identities are increasingly complex. For those whose tribal identity has been extinguished — as in most Europeans of North America — what’s left of…

• Global Exchange

Steven Newcomb writes about “Tecumseh’s Vision”, the second chapter of a five-part documentary film series aired on PBS.

• Daily

It is more than ironic that those who came of age and consciousness in time for the first Earth Day in 1970, now find hope not in the leader of…

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One of the things I learned studying effective political leadership — from South Africa to Northern Ireland — is that democracy is achieved in large part by communicating. Proposing one’s…

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ICERD Guide Minority Rights Group International has published a downloadable guide for NGOs on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The manual on ICERD…

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The only way you could identify the Earth’s destroyers as “humankind” would be to exempt tribal people from the category of “human.” Otherwise you would have to admit that it…