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

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Injustice at Justice

May 15, 2008

Readers might recall a year ago the purge of US Attorneys by the Department of Justice. In today’s article, Indian Country Today notes that five of the eight fired were…

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A Little Humility

May 14, 2008

In today’s article about rediscovering 13th century Puebloan agriculture, Indian Country Today speaks of the “sophisticated environmental understanding” and “acute observational skills” required in order to prosper in the harsh…

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Inherently Evil

May 13, 2008

Modern states are not benign institutions. Indeed, they were formed for the express purpose of concentrating political power. Over the last few centuries, this form of social organization has proven…

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Fed Up

May 12, 2008

I think that things like the protection of the environment bring people together. I think that we all have an innate sort of indigenous belief that we have responsibilities to…

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Reaching the People

Reaching the People

May 12, 2008

The time was right. On April 23, a television station that once was the voice of the Guatemalan military dictatorship that had massacred thousands of Mayans showed the glyph of…

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Bolivian Elite

May 10, 2008

Real News TV reports on the neo-fascist, “virulently anti-Indian,” landed elite strategy of violence against democracy and land reform in Bolivia.

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US v Democracy

May 9, 2008

US agencies contribute $125 million to support white oligarchy of Bolivia attempting to steal 97% of Bolivia’s natural gas reserves. Real News TV reports on the right-wing, landed class secession…

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Increasing Moral Community

May 9, 2008

Nation-states have a vested interest in educating their citizens to develop loyalties and commitments to the central government. Of all of the methods used to accomplish this, formal education is…

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Lyons: New Native studies association is historic

Lyons: New Native studies association is historic

May 9, 2008

On April 11, a new academic organization officially came into existence at what will one day be called (by future academics, of course) a ”historic” meeting held at the University…

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Island of Spirits

May 8, 2008

PBS, the Smithsonian, and Japan’s National Museum of Ethnology offer some interesting views of the Ainu of Hokkaido.

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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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