Social identity on the Internet is widely recognized as integral to today’s social movements. In this issue of First Monday, Sandy Schumann and Francois Luong introduce a framework of mechanisms…
read moreSteve Newcomb at Indian Country Today details how the Bill of Rights would be terminated by the Global War bill before Congress. Of particular interest to readers here, Newcomb explains…
read moreEmblematic of the false promise made by UN states to indigenous nations, Brazil’s industrialization of the Amazon illustrates why the international institution is incapable of upholding the human rights of…
read moreDr. Stephen Cornell addresses the Assembly of First Nations on reclaiming governance.
read moreSacred Land Film Project reports from Cusco, where the last Inca are perhaps witnessing the end of Inca culture. As a shamanic people of the mountains, the Q’eros — having…
read moreInstitutionalized aggression can take many forms; in the UN, agencies like the World Bank and the Security Council reward economic and military aggression with positions of privilege vis-a-vis other states….
read moreThe First Nations Health Council of British Columbia has voted to take over delivery of health services from the federal government of Canada.
read moreTwenty years ago in Washington state, in response to a citizen uprising against environmental destruction subsidized by state coffers, the legislature enacted Growth Management. A landmark law requiring protection of…
read moreThe International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change is working to participate in climate change talks in Bonn, Germany beginning this week. The two week meeting of the ad hoc…
read moreMother Earth Journal reports that Reverend Kevin Annett was arrested and deported from England over the weekend. Annett, a human rights activist from British Columbia, is an outspoken advocate for…
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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