Donate
People,

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

read more

Latest news

The “Right” in “Indigenous Rights”

May 5, 2011

Since the Fall of 2007 many have celebrated the UN General Assembly’s decision to endorse the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The governments of fifteen states either abstained…

read more

Counteracting Violence

May 4, 2011

It might work to the benefit of tribes as well as tribal activists and their allies to discuss means of counteracting free market violence. Analysis of such things as communications…

read more

Struggling to Survive

May 2, 2011

In Peak Psychotherapy, Abundant Human Connection, Carolyn Baker explores the emotional repercussions of collapse. Examining the mental health infrastructure for treating illness associated with industrial civilization, Baker observes that many…

read more

Civil and Human Rights

April 30, 2011

Civil rights and human rights are not the same thing. Civil rights are bestowed upon its citizens by state authorities; human rights are internationally recognized rights inherent to all human…

read more

Defeating the Free Market

April 29, 2011

As the energy and mineral extraction industries move into the final phase of wasting creation, indigenous governance remains an obstacle to unimpeded greed. Guarding indigenous governance, then, becomes more than…

read more

Seventh Generation

April 28, 2011

In advance of its May 4 event in New York City, Winona LaDuke’s Honor the Earth has released We Are the Seventh Generation, an assessment of the needs and potential…

read more

Free Market Media

April 28, 2011

Writing for Religion Dispatches, University of Florida Religion and Nature professor Bron Taylor discusses International Mother Earth Day, and the attack on indigenous spirituality by the Free Market media flagship…

read more

Free Market Violence

April 26, 2011

As a species, community is integral to our health and well-being. The disintegration of community — especially among indigenous peoples — due to Free Market violence, poses a significant obstacle…

read more

A Peaceful Heart

April 25, 2011

Onondaga Chief Oren Lyons once said nature has no mercy, meaning what goes around comes around. Poisoning the planet poisons us. Chief Lyons went on to relate that the values…

read more

Between the Lines

April 24, 2011

Upside Down World interviews Marie-Monique Robin, author of Death Squadrons and Our Daily Poison. In her research on these topics — both made into documentary films — Robin revealed that…

read more

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.

access here