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

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Burden Lies with Rich Polluters, Native People Say

Burden Lies with Rich Polluters, Native People Say

April 27, 2009

Already suffering significant impacts from climate change, indigenous peoples at the close of an international summit here rejected the concept of carbon trading and offsets. Many also called for a…

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Church and State Complicity

April 26, 2009

Canada in the Dock The International Human Rights Tribunal into Genocide in Canada announces a public forum and inquiry into RCMP, church and state complicity in the death and disappearance…

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Putting the US on Notice

April 25, 2009

Following the Money The foiled assassination plot on President Morales of Bolivia reveals the unsavory aspects of transnational right-wing terrorism. Earlier reports linking right-wing terrorism in Bolivia to US government funding…

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War Crimes are War Crimes

April 25, 2009

After reading and listening to columnists and television and radio commentators twist and turn their words to argue against holding US officials accountable for torturing of detainees under the control…

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Peoples in Search of Freedom

April 24, 2009

Stateless Nations Eurominority, the website of stateless nations and minority peoples in Europe, has an interactive map featuring Europe’s ethnic, national, linguistic, and cultural minorities.

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Rights of Mother Earth

April 23, 2009

A Different Way of Life Speaking before the United Nations General Assembly, President Evo Morales of Bolivia outlined the Rights of Mother Earth. Ending capitalism, says Morales, is the only…

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Disparity of Dominion

April 22, 2009

A new study in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States reveals a vast disparity in the health of aboriginal from non-aboriginal children. The irony of these being the…

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Taking Control

April 21, 2009

A few years ago, W. Ron Allen, former president of the National Congress of American Indians, remarked, “Tribes must come to the realization that the federal government will never fully…

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Report Blames Social Factors For Indigenous Health Gap

April 21, 2009

A world-first study comparing child health across Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US has found similar discrepancies between the health of the countries' indigenous and non-indigenous youth.

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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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