I recently had a chance to observe firsthand how knowledge is passed on between old and young professionals in the hospital. Older nurses shadowing younger ones with tips on care,…
Read moreAn Underground Existence In this article, my colleague Chip Berlet argues that self-identified progressives within the Democratic party are strategically ignorant about what is at stake in battling bigotry in…
Read moreThe Irish have a name for the formal process of coming together for a common purpose. But Meitheal is more than a collaboration; it is a traditional method of accomplishing…
Read moreStrong Society As Patsy Whitefoot, president of the National Indian Education Association, observes, there are some things you can’t learn in school. For the Yakama elder, culture and identity are…
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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…
Read morePBS 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…
Read moreTim 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…
Read moreNo 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….
Read moreAfter 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…
Read moreThe 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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