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Communications in Conflict
Communications in Conflict — a collaboration of Public Good Project and Intercontinental Cry Magazine, under the creative direction of Wrong Kind of Green — is now available as an e-book.
Read morePraying New Leadership
Recently, a friend suffering from an autoimmune disease shared a healing anecdote that, while seemingly disparate, lends itself – I believe – to indigenous self-determination. The story was about an…
Read moreWest Papua Liberation
West Papua delegates will participate for the first time in a summit of the Melanesian Spearhead Group, an intergovernmental organization of sovereign states including Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Papua-New…
Read moreEngaged Self-Determination
The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) held its 12th Session at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, May 20-31. Tasked with reviewing the implementation of…
Read moreConspiracism and the Indigenous Peoples Movement
As an analyst of social conflict where democratic values are being challenged, I try to inoculate audiences targeted by social viruses like conspiracism. To illustrate this particular social virus presently…
Read moreIndigenous Justice in the Andes
In “Cambios en la Justicia Comunitaria y Factores de Influencia”, Hans-Jürgen Brandt describes the changes in the indigenous judicial system in Peru and Ecuador during the last ten years. He…
Read moreFishable Waters
In the Spring 2013 American Indian Law Journal, Catherine A. O’Neill examines what it means to indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest to have fishable waters. In her discussion of…
Read moreAppropriations and Apparitions
Elected tribal leaders in Canada and the US are governing authorities, but their authority is not exclusive. While their authority extends to matters delineated by Ottawa and Washington, the traditional…
Read moreStill No Consent
The Arctic Council held its eighth meeting in Kiruna, Sweden this past week. While news headlines covering results of the meeting have focused on the observer status position that China,…
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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