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

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Seeds of Life

Seeds of Life

March 10, 2012

In telling the story of food, Winona LaDuke discusses such topics as food security, biodiversity and climate change. Comparing industrial and indigenous nutrition, LaDuke examines human relationships with the seeds…

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To Fulfill Their Dreams

To Fulfill Their Dreams

March 8, 2012

Reading Peter d’Errico’s account of the United States government’s shell games in usurping international law in its larcenous efforts against the Western Shoshone nation, I am reminded that the longer…

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Double Standard

Double Standard

March 7, 2012

As Sarah Hunt observes in her article on Media Indigena, theft of indigenous peoples’ property is a normal activity under colonial settlement. Whether that theft is by individuals, government, or…

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Australia Out of Control

Australia Out of Control

March 4, 2012

Following on the heels of international condemnation for its inhumanitarian intervention against the Aboriginal People of the Northern Territory, the Australian government has opted for full scale invasion and imposition…

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Federal Republic of West Papua

Federal Republic of West Papua

March 4, 2012

The proclamation of the Federal Republic of West Papua has been registered with the UN Security Council. In order to receive international recognition of its independence from the hostile state…

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Haudenosaunee Health

Haudenosaunee Health

March 2, 2012

Haudenosaunee women lead the way in healing and health from a wholistic perspective.

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Can't Be Trusted

Can’t Be Trusted

February 27, 2012

To the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, the violations by the governments of Quebec and Canada of resource sustainability agreements with their First Nation are all they need to show Canada…

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Hope Belongs to the Resistance

Hope Belongs to the Resistance

February 23, 2012

In a 2005 interview with Raymundo Sanchez Barraza, In Motion Magazine looked at A University Without Shoes. In discussing the indigenous intercultural system of informal education developed by the Mayan…

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FED by NED

FED by NED

February 22, 2012

In the old days of the CIA and National Security Agency (NSA), official US Government organizations were more candid about overthrowing governments that did not succumb to domination by US…

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Systemic Rage

Systemic Rage

February 18, 2012

In his paper Colonialism and State Dependency, CWIS associate scholar Gerald Taiaiake Alfred — professor at the School of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria — discusses the disturbing…

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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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