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

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Sacred Space

Sacred Space

March 9, 2008

I have often marveled at writers who could create beautiful stories from adversity–powerful works of art exhibiting the dignity of creativity under duress. I have also often wondered if guardians…

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Talk’s Cheap

Talk’s Cheap

March 7, 2008

Robert Tim Coulter of the Indian Law Resource Center notes that an apology from Congress to American Indians for past discrimination rings hollow absent a willingness by Congress to cease…

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Re-founding Nation-states

Re-founding Nation-states

March 4, 2008

There are other indigenous movements that do not demand autonomies but the re-founding of nation-states based on indigenous cultures. This is the tendency most apparent in the various movements in…

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Creative Funding

Creative Funding

March 3, 2008

The art of financing is a highly complex product of human creativity. Undoubtedly those of us who are masters of this art can be extremely influential. Especially so in the…

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Indigenous Movements in the Americas: From Demand for Recognition to Building Autonomies

Indigenous Movements in the Americas: From Demand for Recognition to Building Autonomies

February 28, 2008

Latin America is living a time of autonomy movements, especially for indigenous autonomy. The demand became a central concern in national indigenous movements in the 1990s and intensified in the…

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Leap of Faith

Leap of Faith

February 25, 2008

“At the heart of evolutionary anthropology lay the assumption that the human mind was guided by universal, not culturally specific, impulses…This assumption had two important methodological implications. First, it allowed…

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Eliminating Racial Discrimination

Eliminating Racial Discrimination

February 22, 2008

International Indian Treaty Council has sent a report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination documenting constitutional and institutional discrimination against indigenous peoples in the United States….

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Do No Harm

Do No Harm

February 19, 2008

The Aboriginal Women’s Action Network has come out in opposition to the legalization of brothels in British Columbia to service sex tourism at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. More information about…

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Impeding Impunity

Impeding Impunity

February 17, 2008

Issues facing Ogoni people in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, a documentary by Al Jazeera: Al Jazeera – People in Power: Democracy Delta-Style (Part 1) Al Jazeera – People in Power: Democracy…

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India's tribals: Caught in the crossfire

India’s tribals: Caught in the crossfire

February 17, 2008

Land. Water. Minerals. Guns. They are all connected. In India

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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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