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Modern states are not benign institutions. Indeed, they were formed for the express purpose of concentrating political power. Over the last few centuries, this form of social organization has proven…

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I think that things like the protection of the environment bring people together. I think that we all have an innate sort of indigenous belief that we have responsibilities to…

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The time was right. On April 23, a television station that once was the voice of the Guatemalan military dictatorship that had massacred thousands of Mayans showed the glyph of…

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Real News TV reports on the neo-fascist, “virulently anti-Indian,” landed elite strategy of violence against democracy and land reform in Bolivia.

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US agencies contribute $125 million to support white oligarchy of Bolivia attempting to steal 97% of Bolivia’s natural gas reserves. Real News TV reports on the right-wing, landed class secession…

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Nation-states have a vested interest in educating their citizens to develop loyalties and commitments to the central government. Of all of the methods used to accomplish this, formal education is…

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On April 11, a new academic organization officially came into existence at what will one day be called (by future academics, of course) a ”historic” meeting held at the University…

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PBS, the Smithsonian, and Japan’s National Museum of Ethnology offer some interesting views of the Ainu of Hokkaido.

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Indigenous leaders confront World Bank’s carbon market fraud as corporate profiteering at their expense. Transnational corporations and institutions accused of colluding to steal remaining indigenous resources through market-driven climate change…

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International policymakers are facing fierce criticism from leaders of the world’s 370 million indigenous peoples over plans to use carbon markets as one of the tools to mitigate climate change.