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Film Review: Richard Gere is My Hero

Film Review: Richard Gere is My Hero

May 7, 2010

Guest Film Review by Tashi Tenzin Richard Gere is My Hero Duration: 90 mins Genre: Romantic Comedy/Tibetan with English Subtitle Script & Direction: T. Wangchuk and T.Dorjee Lead actors: Sonam…

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Preserving Lushootseed

Preserving Lushootseed

May 7, 2010

Preserving Lushootseed for Coast Salish is not just an urgent cultural project. It is an essential task in maintaining identity and connections to traditional values.

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Dancing the Salmon Home

Dancing the Salmon Home

May 6, 2010

The Winnemem Wintu tribe from near Mount Shasta is seeking assistance from New Zealand in restoring their Chinook salmon run devastated by the US government.

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The Role of Tribalism

The Role of Tribalism

May 5, 2010

Recent op-eds in the progressive press on tribalism and indigeneity reveal ongoing misperceptions. Perhaps this brief discussion on the role of tribalism in the world today will help.

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Harmonious Ends

Harmonious Ends

May 2, 2010

The metaphor of a collision course could be improved on. The capitalist system has been devouring the natural order for centuries; the human and environmental disaster is not something over…

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Women, Resilience, and Global Peace Movements

Women, Resilience, and Global Peace Movements

May 1, 2010

The Institute for the Future recently issued their Ten Year Forecast, released at the Ten Year Forecast in Sausalito, CA. Along with materials from the retreat, on the website I happened…

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Investigating Discovery

Investigating Discovery

May 1, 2010

A groundbreaking report examining the roots of Christian domination over indigenous peoples and their lands was released this week at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The report…

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The Natural Order

The Natural Order

April 30, 2010

In Cut Stones and Crossroads: A Journey in the Two Worlds of Peru, Ronald Wright encounters such literary figures as Waman Puma, an Inca philosopher from the 1600s, whose writings…

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The Business of Climate Change

The Business of Climate Change

April 28, 2010

The Dominion‘s Dawn Paley interviews Chiapas social activist Gustavo Castro Soto about the upcoming COP16 summit, scheduled for November in Cancun. “After 16 sessions of COP”, says Soto, “things are…

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UN Indigenous Discourse A Disappointment

UN Indigenous Discourse A Disappointment

April 25, 2010

I sat in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations at the 9th Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues last week listening to speakers from North American…

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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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