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Writing and Fighting
You can not be creative in a system that is very unjust, like the system we live in, unless you are a dissident. Because when you are creative you are…
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The Gathering – A Modern Thanksgiving Story
At Thanksgiving, as we in the United States gather to celebrate the first ceremonial sharing between Native Peoples and the arriving European Peoples, it might be a good time to…
Read moreWest Papua National Coalition for Liberation call for peace talks
19th November 2007 The West Papua National Coalition for Liberation (WPNCL) has called on the President of Indonesia, Dr. Haji Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, to enter into peace talks aimed at…
Read moreMexico is Booming, The People Suffer
As I looked out of my window flying from Monterey, Mexico to Houston, Texas one afternoon two weeks ago I looked out on a landscape that once contained hundreds of…
Read moreCeremony
“I will tell you something about stories. They aren’t just entertainment. Don’t be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.”…
Read moreModern Symbols Market Tradition
To be healthy means to be rich. This reality is widely understood and accepted within contemporary western society. The trend is towards a healthy and sustainable lifestyle. Aspects that have…
Read moreMirror Dance
I was only nineteen when I first saw the tumbling falls of the upper Skagit from behind some huckleberry bushes that grew along a river path that I’d stumbled on…
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Maine Episcopalians decry ‘doctrine of discovery’
In 1496, Henry VII, King of England, authorized John Cabot to sail to ”undiscovered” non-Christian lands, subjugate their inhabitants, confiscate their resources and claim the land in the name of…
Read moreAncestors
Recent discoveries and interpretations of my ancestors’ graves in Southern France, associated with cave paintings from fifty thousand years ago, gave me pause to think about modern notions of what…
Read moreMy World In My Kitchen
My World In My Kitchen Food and how we prepare food is one of the most central aspects of daily life. More intimate than our language can ever be, cooking…
Read moreChief 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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