A lot has changed since 1996, when leading researchers, analysts and activists convened at the Daybreak Star Center in Seattle to discuss the politics of land and bigotry, but one…
read moreAccording to the World Health Organization, the misuse of antibiotics over the last thirty years has ushered in a new age of drug resistant bacteria, including virulent new forms of …
read moreOn March 25, the Roman Catholic Church order of Northwest Jesuits paid $166.1 million to Alaska Native and American Indian victims of sexual abuse during the 1960s and 1970s at…
read moreThe International Indian Treaty Council issued its 28 February 2011 Analysis of language regarding indigenous peoples under consideration by the UN climate change talks in Bangkok, Thailand (3 April –…
read moreThe second day of the sixteenth session of the AWG-KP (AWG-KP 16) and the fourteenth session of the AWG-LCA (AWG-LCA 14), taking place from Sunday, 3 April through Friday, 8…
read moreWe might think from a western view that Indigenous peoples in fourth world circumstances need to be empowered, but in reality, we already know what real power is and how…
read moreTo most people today, intellectual property is something software and pharmaceutical companies claim for their inventions. But for indigenous peoples worldwide, intellectual property includes such things as traditional medicines, knowledge,…
read moreWhen as state is broken (meaning it cannot control its borders, its laws are not universally observed, there is a central government that exercises sovereignty over the territory, but is…
read moreWhen I was briefly a member of the Democratic Party in the mid 1990s, I was amused at the looks I’d get when asking why the party’s annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner…
read moreEcotourism managed right can be a boon to indigenous communities, but the decision to capitalize on conservation has to be their own. Otherwise, tourism is just another invasion of 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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