Activist Education Scholarships - Center for World Indigenous Studies

The International Covenant on the Rights of Indigenous Nations (ICRIN)

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For over 40 years, CWIS has been the leading indigenous peoples’ think tank ensuring that communities can safeguard their rights and resources.
Education

Activate your potential with online courses on Indigenous Studies and Traditional Medicine.
Research & Public Policy

The leading think-tank defining and implementing indigenous-centric policy and strategic implementation in climate change, governance, conflict resolution and health care.
Preserving Indigenous People’s Knowledge

Transforming access: leading digital innovation to protect and amplify 50+ years ofIndigenous knowledge on self-determination for a lasting global impact.
Chief George Manuel Library

The library was founded as a documents repository in 1979 in response to a resolution of the Conference of Tribal Governments.
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Our mission: Activist scholars advancing the rights of indigenous peoples worldwide
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Providing technical support to indigenous nations including international legal advice, policy analysis and conflict resolution and self governance.
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Volume 24, Number 1
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June 3, 2024
Asserting Native Resilience: Insights from Rudolph Rÿser on the Climate Crisis
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Traditional Medicine
About CTM

Traditional medicine is the “mother” of all medicine. More than 80% of the world’s population uses a form of traditional medicine to treat primary health.
Treating Diabetes

Engage in ancient and modern indigenous medicinal methods to prevent and treat diabetes.
Massage Project

This project strengthens the outreach and trains additional therapists to deliver more massage therapy for diabetes to underserved people in urban and rural indigenous areas.
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For over 40 years, CWIS has been the leading indigenous peoples’ activist think tank, ensuring that communities can safeguard their rights and resources.
Your donation may be earmarked for any of our ongoing projects or can be identified to support general operating costs.
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Discover ways to share your skills and expertise to further our mission.
Internships

Join a select group of activist scholars who participate in 3-12 month internships for academic credit.
Video
Searching for Capomo

Discover this extraordinary tree, known as Capomo, or the Breadnut, and all of its gifts. The seed is traditionally eaten as a food and roasted into cafe de capomo. Endemic...
Medical Massage for Diabetes

This project strengthens the outreach and trains additional therapists to deliver more massage therapy for diabetes to underserved people in urban and rural indigenous areas.
Salal, Cedar and Spruce: A Journey with Salish Plant and Medicine Traditions

Salal berries for digestive relief, Cedar tea to reduce fevers, and Spruce tips for nourishment and congestive relief… Traditional Salish foods and medicines are experiencing a revival in the Pacific...
Pathfinder: The Untold Story of “The Indian Business”

Pathfinder: The Untold Story of the “Indian Business” is a feature-length documentary currently in production about the “Fourth World’s” struggle for self-determination and overcoming bigotry and internalized traumas, told through...

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Activist Education Scholarships

Help build cultural bridges

Our education programs build bridges between cultural wisdom, indigenous ways of knowing (epistemologies) and the healing arts & sciences.

When you give to the Scholarship Fund you support the continuing traditional education of a Native Student, and you help strengthen the communities of indigenous nations in the Pacific Northwest and in Mexico. Our 2018-2019 courses are now all online and growing.

Your donation can provide funding to create our next course on Diabetes Prevention for Native Children.

What can you do?

Make a donation!
Take a course! Buy 2; one for you and donate one for a Native student who couldn’t afford it.
Volunteer. We can always join forces for this common goal. Whether want to volunteer with your knowledge, your time, or your ideas; we will be glad to hear from you! Contact us.

Learn more

Meet some of our Certificate/graduate degree students who are now lawyers, herbalists, educators and environmental activists. Click here .

Your Donations have gone so far!

We provided 100 free copies of “Preventing and Treating Diabetes Naturally, The Native Way” to elders and clinics in the Pacific Northwest.
3 year long community trauma project that trained Natural Medicine Health promotores, Cabo Corrientes.
We co created with teens and elders a community book: Plantas Medicinales de la Selva, which was distributed throughout Yelapa and the Comunidad Indígena de Chacala, Jalisco.

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