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

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Roots

Roots

January 26, 2012

Sometimes it helps to remember where you came from. In this Wikipedia snapshot of CWIS, we can trace our current efforts to those of our founders and the predecessor organization…

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Backward Modern States

Backward Modern States

January 25, 2012

Indian Country Today highlights the upcoming gathering of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, where the theme will be the Doctrine of Discovery, an outdated Christian colonial mandate that…

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Indigenous Campesino Movements

Indigenous Campesino Movements

January 24, 2012

In a recent YES! Magazine article entitled Beyond “Free” or “Fair” Trade: Mexican Farmers Go Local, Mike Wold highlights the devastating effects that NAFTA has had on indigenous campesinos (farmers)…

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Globalization Canadian Style

Globalization Canadian Style

January 22, 2012

Arno Kopecky writes in The Tyee that Canada is beginning to feel like Peru; having covered the conflict between Peruvian President Garcia and indigenous peoples there, Kopecky notes the demonizing…

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Risk of Extinction

Risk of Extinction

January 20, 2012

In asking the question whether the UN will  live up to its commitment to indigenous peoples, Intercontinental Cry notes the notorious track record of the institution in marginalizing indigenous peoples…

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Inter-species CO-OPeration

Inter-species CO-OPeration

January 18, 2012

The Great Laws of Nature, a video posted via Intercontinental Cry, highlights the positive, systemic effects that the revitalization of local, indigenous agriculture has had on the Muskoday First Nation. …

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Poverty and Prostitution

Poverty and Prostitution

January 17, 2012

Indian Country Today looks at sexual violence and the trafficking of native women and children. CWIS Associate Scholar Melissa Farley discusses the connection between homelessness, poverty and prostitution.

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Tar Sands Psywar

Tar Sands Psywar

January 15, 2012

Intercontinental Cry's editorial on the psychological warfare waged by the Government of Canada and the oil companies mining the Alberta Tar Sands is instructive for activists engaged in trying to…

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Above the Law

Above the Law

January 13, 2012

Aboriginal leaders in Canada are disturbed by the behavior of the Prime Minister and his cabinet in promoting oil pipelines through indigenous territories prior to environmental review. As if it…

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Indigenous World Conference

Indigenous World Conference

January 13, 2012

Indigenous representatives from around the world meet today and tomorrow in Copenhagen to discuss participation in the planning for the 2014 UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples.

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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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