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

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The Stereotypical Mind

July 6, 2008

It is about the bureaucratic deformation of the mind, which I think is one of the major contemporary problems in all societies, industrialized or underdeveloped. The book deals with the…

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Playing with Numbers and People

July 5, 2008

How fun to watch them dance. Whirling around quickly. Different colors and sizes. The big black ones are the best. They equal great success. Even though the red ones are…

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Abandon the Metaphor

July 5, 2008

As a euphemism for compliant, “moderate” in its present political perversion is an achievement of the investment in ideas by American conservatism. Since there is no corresponding investment in ideas…

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Seizing Native Land in Peru, One Parcel at a Time

Seizing Native Land in Peru, One Parcel at a Time

July 4, 2008

Activists in Peru are mounting various legal challenges to that nation’s recently passed package of legislation, called ”forest laws,” which they say will make it easier for authorities to break…

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Biafra Government In Exile (BGIE) Press Release - July 1, 2008

Biafra Government In Exile (BGIE) Press Release – July 1, 2008

July 3, 2008

Biafran government Prime Minister Emmanuel Enekwechi issued this press release concerning Zimbabwe’s illegal elections.

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Tofino Roundup

July 2, 2008

Attitude makes the difference.

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Yuppie Bellicosity

July 1, 2008

Two summers ago, Obama was lauding Nixon’s foreign policy. Two weeks ago it was Reagan’s foreign policy he praised. Today he expressed his gratitude to Reagan for curbing the excesses…

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Promises Made

July 1, 2008

My mother and I were born in Seattle on Duwamish land adjacent to Lake Washington. Chief Seattle’s descendants and relatives once fished Sockeye salmon where my grandmother taught swimming. Along…

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Absence of the Sacred

June 30, 2008

The World Archeological Congress will meet soon in Dublin, where, among other topics, they’ll examine the Tara controversy. Tara Hill, to the Irish, is like The Black Hills to the…

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Curating Social Knowledge

June 28, 2008

One of my colleague’s students asked if I found my indigenous associates to have a different philosophical perspective. I responded by noting that their cosmology and epistemology was in sharp…

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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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