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War Crimes are War Crimes
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…
Read morePeoples in Search of Freedom
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
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…
Read moreDisparity of Dominion
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…
Read moreTaking Control
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…
Read moreReport Blames Social Factors For Indigenous Health Gap
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.
Read moreThe Price of Forgiveness
In the current episode of Northwest Indian News, Anglican Diocese Reverend Cruickshank admits the Anglican Church of Canada, United Church of Canada, and the Catholic Church in Canada are guilty…
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Indigenous Peoples Demand Greater Role in Climate Debate
While indigenous peoples from around the world are meeting in this Alaskan city to seek a greater role in global climate negotiations, the rapidly warming Arctic is forcing some Inuit…
Read moreRecovery and Return
At the end of the forested canyon where I live is a footpath that follows a cascading stream up a flank of the mountain to a ridge that looks down…
Read moreChief 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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