Twenty 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 moreCommercial advertising and public relations firms operate from the principle that repeated exposure to a product or idea makes them desirable or legitimate. Placing those products or ideas in locations…
read moreEvery story has more than one side. In this film trailer by Raul Paz Pastrana, the story of the Yasuni rainforest is told from the view of its indigenous inhabitants,…
read moreIn this short video, the San healers of Southern Africa explain the challenge of curating their indigenous knowledge and taking control of their medicinal resource management.
read morePeter d’Errico discusses the Doctrine of Discovery dilemma at the UN, where member states that inherited indigenous lands from invading Christian empires are panicked about the pressure to examine the…
read moreDenmark continues to play a significant role in the world indigenous peoples’ movement. Over the last decade, the peaceful transition of the Danish territory of Greenland to indigenous self-rule, and…
read moreToronto’s model schools promote multiculturalism by including aboriginal curricula and Ojibwe language classes.
read moreAs noted in Upside Down World, Zapatismo is alive and well in the caracols of Chiapas, but self-rule in these autonomous indigenous communities is anything but easy. Community cohesion, the…
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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