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

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“We Decide”

January 20, 2013

When indigenous nations ask that their knowledge, their territories, their way of life receive the respect that all humans expect they ask that other societies act as mature human organisms….

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Tuareg Under Siege

Tuareg Under Siege

January 19, 2013

With uranium and gold mines in Mali at stake, the invasion by France with Canadian and US support signals an extension of the North African offensive initiated by NATO in…

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Eradicating the Doctrine of Domination

Eradicating the Doctrine of Domination

January 18, 2013

Global Research News Hour interviews John Schertow, editor and publisher of Intercontinental Cry magazine, about Idle No More and the world indigenous movement. During the first half of the January…

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Easing Tensions in Araucania

Easing Tensions in Araucania

January 17, 2013

The Mapuche Indigenous Summit, aimed at easing tensions in Araucania, proposed respect for their territorial integrity as a starting point for the Chilean state in fulfilling the treaties between Chile…

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Generations of Knowledge Indigenous Sciences & Conventional Science Evaluation

Generations of Knowledge Indigenous Sciences & Conventional Science Evaluation

January 15, 2013

The five member Center for World Indigenous Studies panel of experts is conducting an evaluation of the Generations of Knowledge traveling exhibit project Stakeholder’s collaboration. This year-long, formative evaluation focuses…

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Reinventing the Colonial Wheel in Canada

Reinventing the Colonial Wheel in Canada

January 13, 2013

In a recent op-ed article published in Indian Country Today, the author–a Cree/Metis woman from Alberta Canada–wrote about a landmark study conducted by the Canadian government in 1991 called “People…

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A Dangerous Game

A Dangerous Game

January 11, 2013

Under the tribal government system imposed on indigenous nations by the U.S. Government, governance of the Navajo Nation has long been corrupted by the corrosive influence of the coal industry….

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Araucania Rising

Araucania Rising

January 10, 2013

As much of the world’s attention is on the indigenous uprising in Canada, the conflict between indigenous peoples and settlers at the southern tip of the hemisphere is escalating. While…

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Arctic Frontier

Arctic Frontier

January 10, 2013

Economic Development in the Indigenous North is the subject of a January 23 seminar at University of Tromso, Norway.

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Mali Malaise

Mali Malaise

January 9, 2013

Mali’s new military dictatorship is in the unusual position of being unable to militarily defeat the indigenous Tuareg secessionists, while at the same time being uncomfortable with asking NATO or…

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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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