As a contributing editor of Fourth World Journal, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting fascinating scholars writing on topics and ideas unlikely to be encountered in any other medium. Their…
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The Center for World Indigenous Studies has been invited and has accepted to "partner" with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change under the Nairobi Work Program. The Nairobi…
read moreThe collapse of the world economy is popularly attributed to deregulation of derivatives, but the breakdown of modern states has more to do with the unsustainable nature of societies built…
read moreAwka No fewer than 3,000 ex-policemen, who served under the defunct Republic of Biafra have threatened to embark on indefinite hunger strike following the non-payment of their retirement benefit…
read moreCongratulations to Coast Salish Institute and Northwest Indian College on their efforts to build a repository of knowledge and culture with assistance from the National Endowment for the Humanities. When…
read moreIn just the same way that a healthy growing tree is rooted in deep and fertile soil, our efforts to restore the world’s forests should be rooted in a sound…
read moreAs Rick Harp, editor of Media Indigena, notes, one way of neutralizing indigenous sovereignty is by undermining indigenous institutions. In the old days, that took the form of outlawing their…
read moreBuilding momentum towards entry into force, Rwanda today became the sixthcountry to sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising…
read moreThe Oneida Nation, one of the five founding nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy), has a history of facilitating communication between Americans and Indians. During the American Revolution, they were…
read moreEnbridge, the corporation hoping to build a pipeline from the Alberta Tar Sands to coastal British Columbia, has said they will pay First Nations one billion dollars to end their…
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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