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Language Church and State
Life is full of ironies, sometimes amusing, sometimes inspiring. As Phil Mercer reports at the BBC, an indigenous language in Australia, once thought extinct, is being revived thanks in part…
Read moreTax Justice Seminar
Tax Justice Network-Africa’s call for papers for its March 25-6 research seminar to be held in Tunis has a January 31 deadline for abstracts. The seminar on financing development through…
Read more“We Decide”
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….
Read moreTuareg Under Siege
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…
Read moreEradicating the Doctrine of Domination
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…
Read moreEasing Tensions in Araucania
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…
Read moreGenerations of Knowledge Indigenous Sciences & Conventional Science Evaluation
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…
Read moreReinventing the Colonial Wheel in Canada
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…
Read moreA Dangerous Game
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….
Read moreAraucania Rising
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…
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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