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

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Internationalizing Indian Rights

Internationalizing Indian Rights

September 26, 2007

Bolivian president Evo Morales, an Aymaran, spoke before the United Nations General Assembly as a head of state. Before speaking Morales met with Haudenosaunee, Oglala Lakota and Cree leaders at…

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Ancient knowledge may slow Global Warming

Ancient knowledge may slow Global Warming

September 25, 2007

Perhaps one of the greatest ironies of the modern era may be recognized when it becomes commonly known that ancient knowledge possessed by Fourth World nations can solve modern problems…

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Walloons and Flemish may go on their own

Walloons and Flemish may go on their own

September 23, 2007

The Flemish are not sure they want to be in the same independent country–Belgium–with the Walloons.  After centuries of living together, these two peoples may decide to go on their…

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Principles of Psywar

Principles of Psywar

September 21, 2007

With the advent of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the world indigenous resurgence will require the linking of national, regional, and local movement resources through a…

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Terra preta de índio, Global Climate Change

Terra preta de índio, Global Climate Change

September 20, 2007

Shortly before Spanish, Dutch and English sponsored ships arrived on the western hemisphere’s shores more than five hundred years ago, infectious disease rubbed out between 50% and 95% of the…

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What the UN Declaration Means

What the UN Declaration Means

September 19, 2007

It is our observation at the Center that there are from 6,000 to 7,000 nations that speak original languages and generally occupy territories in virtually every continent in the world….

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Tribes Nations States

Tribes Nations States

September 19, 2007

Media and think tanks on the payroll of the US government or military understandably have a state-centric bias when it comes to describing or analyzing conflict between tribes, nations, and…

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Ungoverned or Ungovernable

Ungoverned or Ungovernable

September 17, 2007

In the 2007 RAND publication Ungoverned Territories: A Unique Front in the War on Terrorism, RAND scholars note, “Since the end of the Cold War, failed or failing states and…

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Tribal Self-Government & Taiwan’s UN Bid

Tribal Self-Government & Taiwan’s UN Bid

September 16, 2007

The government of Taiwan seeks to reenter as a full member of the United Nations giving the People’s Republic of China heartburn. Meanwhile, thirteen tribes as the original occupants of…

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Indigenous reality behind climate change

Indigenous reality behind climate change

September 15, 2007

Experts agree, climate change may be the greatest threat facing our planet. No doubt, for all of human kind climate change is a threat to biodiversity, and involves a number…

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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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