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

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Killing Freedom

September 24, 2010

As the Mapuche political prisoner hunger strike enters the deadly phase, Dawn Paley of The Dominion documents how Canadian corporations and the World Bank have aggravated the conflict against indigenous…

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REDD Shell Game

September 23, 2010

Shell Oil denounced for undermining indigenous peoples human rights in order to profit from UN climate change protocols. Shell, Chevron, and the Clinton Foundation are funding REDD initiatives aimed at…

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Shame and Derision

September 22, 2010

Under former president Uribe of Colombia, recently appointed by the UN to investigate Israel’s attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Colombia’s indigenous peoples experienced horrific atrocities. Terrorized by the Colombian…

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Yellow Dirt

September 21, 2010

Laura Miller writes at Salon about the US government’s betrayal of the Navajo in order to mine, mill and dump uranium. With a lethal legacy of carcinogenic land, water and…

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Anti-Indian Movement Again

September 21, 2010

When ever privileged male voters in the United States believe their status and privileges are about to be challenged, they turn on the economically weakest with a vengeance. “Wealth has…

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Fast Track Contract

September 20, 2010

Fast-track mining contracts in Palawan, backed by the Armed Forces of the Phillipines, may be illegal, but they are also indicative of the underlying reality obscured by UN biosphere designations,…

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The Meaning of Place

September 18, 2010

In his talk Indigenous Resurgence and Traditional Ways of Being, University of Victoria Professor Gerald Taiaiake Alfred examines the fundamental challenges facing indigenous peoples and their friends in confronting the…

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A Foreign Concept

September 17, 2010

Resolution v God The San Carlos Apache make a stand for what God gave them and the largest copper mining company in the world wants to destroy. As with all…

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Mining Madness

September 16, 2010

Intercontinental Cry exposes Canada’s plans to drain pristine lakes on First Nations’ lands to use as basins for dumping toxic mining waste.

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Perpetuating Pinochet

September 15, 2010

The United Nations Human Rights Council and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights accuse the Chilean government of violating international standards of justice by its persecution of the indigenous Mapuche…

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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.

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