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

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Potent Weapon

March 24, 2009

Netwar Modern netwar is a useful field of study for those engaged in the war of ideas, indigenous versus industrial being a prime example. During a trustee v faculty conflict…

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Gaming the System

March 22, 2009

Acts of Congress Rolling Stone‘s Matt Taibi tells the tale of how gaming the system that turned Big Brother into a holding company was actually engineered by investing in acts…

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Hypocrisy at Work

March 20, 2009

Target Rich Environment Ken Silverstein at Harper’s illustrates the simple hypocrisy at work in the AIG scandal, namely U.S. Senator Chris Dodd selling bailout bonus loopholes to AIG in exchange…

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Passing on Traditional Knowledge

March 19, 2009

To Those Who Come To Learn An NWIN TV tribute to Skokomish elder Bruce Miller: Teachings of the Tree People.

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Our Own Message

March 18, 2009

A Winning Strategy In this New York Times article on the political theatre surrounding the AIG scandal, topping the list of Ponzi vendors bleeding the US Treasury dry is Goldman…

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The Order of Things

March 17, 2009

Hope Among the Ruins The latest issue of Fourth World Journal explores holistic practices for maintaining and restoring community health. Reading these interesting essays reminded me of one I wrote…

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Child’s Play

March 16, 2009

In his comments as part of a Real News panel on Afghanistan, Sunil Ram, a contributing editor of the private defense journal of the Royal Canadian Military Institute, noted that…

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Indigenizing Media

March 15, 2009

In the preface to his book Circuits of Culture, Jeff Himpele observes that cinematic media and their circulatory systems precipitate the historical process intrinsic to cultural life, political forms, and…

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Papuan Independence

March 14, 2009

The Right to be Free BBC News special report on Papua’s independence struggle includes undercover film footage of Papua leaders discussing the right to be free.

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Indigenous Peoples’ Movement

March 13, 2009

I had an opportunity last summer to put the Indigenous Peoples’ Movement in perspective. Listen in.

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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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