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

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Coming Together

June 11, 2008

Making amends takes many forms. In California, a state with no indigenous colleges, tribes like the Miwok — who previously inhabited Yosemite Valley and San Francisco Bay — also have…

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RIGHTS-CHILE: Growing Outcry Over Filmmaker

RIGHTS-CHILE: Growing Outcry Over Filmmaker

June 11, 2008

There is growing international alarm over the arrest of Chilean filmmaker Elena Varela, who was taken into custody by police a month ago while working on an investigative documentary on…

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Condemned by History

June 10, 2008

In the chapter titled Novels Disguised as History, from the book A Writer’s Reality, renowned Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa describes how the Quechua Inca were paralyzed by their religion…

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Travellers To Seek Legal Minority Status

Travellers To Seek Legal Minority Status

June 10, 2008

Travellers have voted unanimously to mount a national campaign demanding State recognition for travellers as a distinct ethnic minority group.

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Marketing Stereotypes

June 9, 2008

“I`d like to get the Indian ointment.” This is what German consumers say at the pharmacy after having seen a TV commercial on Kytta, an ointment of comfrey (“knitbone”) for…

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Out of the Silence

June 8, 2008

The decaying totems of Haida Gwaii, documented in William Reid and Adelaide de Menil’s 1971 book Out of the Silence, were living monuments to a form of communication about the…

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The Centrist Position

June 7, 2008

Centrist is a concept used by the liberal elite to marginalize authentic activists. Their access to resources used to promote this concept allows them to penetrate a broad swath of…

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Kinship

June 6, 2008

As part of my continuing education on Northern Ireland, I came across a most informative perspective in the British Broadcasting Corporation online Wars and Conflict article by Professor Marianne Elliott,…

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Recognition at last for Japan's Ainu

Recognition at last for Japan’s Ainu

June 6, 2008

In the 19th Century, Japanese people called the northern island of Hokkaido “Ezochi”. It meant “Land of the Ainu”, a reference to the fair-skinned, long-haired people who had lived there…

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Warmonger

June 5, 2008

Praising the tough diplomacy (Iran-Contra) of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Democratic presidential candidate Barak Obama yesterday promised $30 billion to Israel, support for the continued deprivation of Palestinian human…

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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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