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

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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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The economy of Canada has long been dependent on the theft of indigenous peoples’ resources. Cree, Algonquin, Dene, Anishnabe, Inuit and Ojibway resistance to this theft has been ongoing. Canada’s…

• Global Exchange

Indigenous Struggles 2012: Dispatches from the Fourth World, looks back at some of the major events of the global indigenous movement not covered by mainstream media. This collection of under-reported…

• Daily

In case Prime Minister Harper and the Government of Canada are confused about the demands of the First Nations, Defenders of the Land — the predecessor to Idle No More…

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With indigenous protests, demonstrations and blockades erupting across Canada recently, many might be wondering what’s the deal? Canada endorsed the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2010….

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Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence is now in the 21st day of her hunger strike, her demand to meet with Prime Minister Stephen Harper having so far fallen on deaf ears….

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Ryan Drum at Island Herbs on Waldron Island is an interesting guy. I actually met him once in 1975 when he was kayacking and I was boating. His article on…

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In Colonialism and the Green Economy, Daniel C. Marotta and Jennifer Coute-Marotta report on the reality of the REDD carbon market scheme in Chiapas, where the Mexican government is relocating…

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As the UN Security Council approves an African-led military force to intervene in the Mali civil war, France, the US and the African Union bring their own interests to a…