Over the last five hundred years, wealthy Europeans devastated the original societies of the Americas. Of course, they had a lot of enthusiastic help from less than wealthy Europeans, but…
Read moreIn hard times, it is community that sees us through. An essential but often neglected part of nurturing community, especially when things fall apart, is mentoring. In this inter-generational exchange…
Read moreBetrayed by covert relationships between an oil company and an NGO offering to assist indigenous peoples, the Guarani learn a valuable lesson about intermediaries.
Read moreA report on the status of Palestinian Bedouin by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs notes pervasive insecurity and instability due to administrative practices of Israeli authorities….
Read moreBefore the American oil boom in the Amazon that poisoned the land and rivers of indigenous peoples over the last half century, there was the rubber boom. As noted in…
Read moreElectronic Intifada reports on the efforts of the UN and health care professionals in Gaza and the West Bank to treat post traumatic stress disorder in Palestinian children.
Read moreThe sixth annual Vine Deloria Junior symposium at Northwest Indian College was extra special.
Read moreIn this abstract, CWIS Associate Scholar Cristine Soliz discusses Native American literature, ceremony and law.
Read moreLakota activist Debra White Plume explains the Oglala paradigm to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Read moreResponding to the scientific evidence that the level of fish consumption by Indian tribes is unhealthy under existing water pollution standards, the state of Oregon this summer took dramatic steps…
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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