The totems of Kwakiutl and other aboriginal coastal villages of British Columbia were often the initial cultural expressions encountered by other First Nations and explorers traveling the Inside Passage between…
Read more(Reading A New Dark Age by our colleague Phil Williams yesterday, I was reminded of our efforts in September 2001 to combat media-generated post-9/11 trauma. As man-made crises become compounded…
Read moreIn a recent exchange, the notion of an American popular uprising was broached, conditioned on some future government having gone too far. My response was that this is not in…
Read more“The problem is that the stateocentric mode of thinking is so highly normative that consideration of alternative forms of governance, which does more than treat them as threats, is typically…
Read moreRichard Atleo, in his book Tsawalk, writes about civilizations completing phases of growth, and likens the resistance to change or transformation to the reluctance of individuals to leave the comfort…
Read moreTaoiseach Cowen says Ireland faces uncertainty due to its rejection of corporate colonialism; earlier in the week, Ireland’s prime minister remarked that he couldn’t get his mind around this mentality….
Read moreThe governments of Canada and British Columbia know from experience how to divide and conquer First Nations. It’s long been a standard procedure of their state bureaucracies to manipulate the…
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Vancouver Island’s first aboriginal treaty in more than 150 years is facing stiff opposition. Not from governments, or the many small towns and cities that border proposed settlement lands, but…
Read moreCorporate colonialism faces only one obstacle—unity. Unity among Native Americans has the US Department of Interior on the ropes for its century of swindling in cahoots with US corporations. Unity…
Read moreThe Irish people say NO to the corporate agenda in Europe. The neoliberal treaty forced on the EU by megacorporations has been roundly rejected in Ireland. Routed by the fierce…
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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