An exhibition “Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness,” opens today at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. The exhibition tries to ‘map’ an Indigenous cultural…
read moreSix first nations on Vancouver Island have brought their complaint before the Organization of American States Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, charging Canada with uncompensated taking of their ancestral territory…
read moreUK changes war crimes law to accommodate Israel and protect Israeli war criminals from prosecution in Britain. Amnesty International weighs in against this blatant corruption of the Geneva Conventions. While…
read moreIn preparing for winter talks with Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo says it’s time to reset the relationship between Canada and the…
read moreA study by Johns Hopkins, published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, concludes that use of psilocybin (magic mushrooms) increases creativity, artistic appreciation and curiosity. The study notes that this discovery…
read moreAfter more than six thousand years of row crop agriculture virtually all foods in the grocery store have been so altered they are “almost without nutritional substance–so Allison Stevens asserts…
read moreAs colonial constructs imposed by European powers, the states of Canada and the US perpetuate illegitimate claims on North America that cannot be legitimated without the consent of First Nations…
read moreThe governments of Russia, China, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan urged in a September 12, 2011 letter to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that he distribute to the 66th Session…
read moreThe Basque quest for liberation from the Spanish state parallels that of Northern Ireland, where the formerly active military arm supports the end of armed conflict in exchange for a…
read moreDespite a western boycott (including the US) of the meeting on racism in the UN General Assembly, a majority of member states joined Amnesty International in condemning racism against indigenous…
read moreThe 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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