COVID-19 Indian Country Risk Assessment and Global Fourth World COVID-19 Risk Assessment conducted by a team of researchers Ashley Arashiro (Japan), Leo Mukosi, Maria Bone, Dr. Leslie Korn and Rudolph Ryser as the Principal Investigator and communicated with PAHO and tribal nations.
Video production developed video script and shot video and are editing a video on the traditional uses of Capomo in rural Indigenous Mexico to be finished and broadcast 2021.
Developed an online video course with grant from Eat the Change, in English and Spanish called Native Roots, Greener Futures, environmental activism for teens and teachers.
Fourth World Rules on Genocide, Covenant on Fourth World Genocide
embarked on the process of developing a new international mechanism to hold accountable perpetrators of genocide and crimes against humanity against indigenous peoples.
Congress of Nations and States (CNS)
A CWIS sponsored initiative to establish a new international mechanism to promote dialogue and decision-making between indigenous nations and states’ governments to implement policies and principles agreed to but not implemented that have been enshrined in international instruments since 1977.
Wayyu Governance in Kenya and Ethiopia
Two initiatives in Eastern and Central Africa were initiated at the request of the governing representatives of the Wayyu Nation (Kenya and Ethiopia), and the Batwa Nation (Rwanda). The Wayyu Nation initiative focused on assisting the Elder’s Council to convene a Negotiation Conference with a larger nation over sharing of cultural practices and political and economic influence.
International Covenant on the Rights of Indigenous Nations – ratifications by nations in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Israel, Morocco. CWIS provided technical and operation assistance to indigenous nations in West Asia to ratify a new international agreement between indigenous nations representing more than 12 million people through the International Covenant on the Rights of Indigenous Nations.
Center for Traditional Medicine commences Medical Massage for Diabetes project in Western Mexico sponsored by a grant from the Massage Therapy Foundation.
Special Issue: Fourth World Journal: “Medicinal Plants and Wild Foods.
CWIS establishes relationship with FNX (First Nations Experience) television network that serves PBS stations in 12 US states to develop and deliver programs on Traditional Medicine and Fourth World Geopolitics.
Yezidi Cultural Rights Project
Researched and drafted Ezidikhan Code on Genocide and related crimes debated and adopted by the Ezidikhan Governing Council.
Developed and recommended a framework for the establishment of the Alliance of Indigenous Nations in the Middle East including Ezidikhan, Mandaeans, Zoroastrians, Shabakh and Roma.
Developed and recommended a framework and language for Ezidikhan and its Alliance, Kurds, al Dulaim and Shi’a to conduct negotiations of a Peace Pact of Iraq to focus on regional political ground up economic, social, political, and security decisions.
Fourth World Peoples’ Kálhaculture for a Changing World. A meta-analysis on the effects of CO2 on the nutritional quality of traditional indigenous peoples’ foods and medicines.
Preventing and Treating Diabetes Type 2, Naturally – publication: Comprehensive Guide to Food, Herbs, Supplements, Recipes, Energy Medicine, Massage and Exercise. Two books: published in English and Spanish.
Salish Country Cookbook
A celebration of Salish knowledge and recipes that use northwest native foods and medicines gathered and prepared in ways suitable for the 21st century kitchen.
Fourth World Journal
Two issues were distributed on the CWIS Webpage as well as through three licensed distributors reaching more than 300 universities and colleges world-wide. Including articles by CWIS researchers:
Indigenous Peoples’ Health: Effects of Elevated Atmospheric CO2 on Plant and Animal-based Foods and Medicines.
Published as “Traditional Foods and Medicines and Mounting Chronic Disease for Indigenous Peoples Worldwide” Fourth World Journal 17(2).
Elevated Atmospheric CO2 effects on Plant-based/Animal-based foods & Medicines
The Effects of Elevated Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations on Plant-based and Animal-based Food, Medicine and Pharmacological uses by Fourth World peoples
Climate Change and Human Health: Effects of Elevated CO2 levels in the Atmosphere on Wildlife Used for Food, Medicinal, and Pharmacological Purposed by Fourth World Peoples—Literature Review.
Regulating Access and Uses of Customary Fourth World Foods & Medicines: Culture, Health and Governance – Published: Ryser, R., Gilio-Whitaker, D., Korn, LE. (2018). “Regulating Access to Customary Fourth World Foods & Medicines: Culture, Health and Governance.” Fourth World Journal. V17/1.
CWIS Scholars and seven Intercontinental Cry Investigative Journalists published about the uses of indigenous medicines, indigenous medical practitioners, establishment of an “international tribunal on genocide,” rebuilding the agricultural life of Yezidi farmers in northern Iraq, establishment of a Yezidi women’s health and trauma program, design of the Biafran Community Participation Initiative Iroko Cultural Rights in Southeastern Nigeria, and structuring a UN Security Council Resolution on Responsibility to Protect indigenous nations from genocide.
Dr. Leslie Korn and the development team of Fatima Mora, Leslie Simonin Wilmer and Miguel Angel Estrada wrote, designed, and narrated nine new online courses
Medicinal Plants of Western Mexico
The Center for Traditional Medicine staff worked during all of 2018 on the design and development of a comprehensive resource in English and Spanish of the medicinal plants of west México. The online, multimedia resource includes recordings dating back 35 years documenting hundreds of plants, applying indigenous sciences, complementary with biomedical research, recipes, and oral histories drawing on Dr. Leslie Korn’s 45 years of research.
Three interns including a Masters level ethno-botanist and two undergraduate students who traveled from the US to Mexico to participate in the research and multimedia initiative. The traditional plants initiative includes cultural artifacts from the Méxican states of Jalisco and Colima and history emphasizing local traditional knowledge.
International Mechanism for the Criminal Tribunal for Yezidi and Neighboring Peoples
Planning, organizing and conducting an International Criminal Tribunal for Yezidi and Neighboring Peoples subjected to alleged crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity including cultural genocide and ecocide.
International Mechanism for Criminal Court on Genocide-Indigenous Peoples
CWIS conducted an extensive inquiry into international mechanisms to prosecute acts of genocide and crimes against humanity committed against indigenous nations from 1945 onward. Of particular focus in the study were the Uyghurs of Uyghuristan (Turkistan in western China, Rohingya in south western Burma and the Yezidi in northern Iraq.) The study was reported in a CWIS article at https://www.cwis.org/2018/01/156-fourth-world-nations-suffered-genocide-since-1945-the-indigenous-uyghurs-case/ noting that from 1945 to 2017 an estimated 12.482 million indigenous people were killed in 156 different incidents. Concluded that a new International Mechanism on Genocide must be established.
Yezidi Cultural Rights Project: Rebuild and Return
The Yezidi Cultural Rights Project focused primarily on the Ezidikhan Government’s “Rebuild and Return” policy aimed at rebuilding the lands and communities destroyed by the Islamic State in 2014 and beyond where health, trauma, food and dangers of ecological destruction demand attention.
We have a team of expert researchers, analysts, facilitators and trainers to respond to requests from tribal governments.
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