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Category: Artby - Jay Taber

Tribalism

Tribalism

October 9, 2007

The Oxford English Dictionary defines tribe as a group of families or communities linked by cultural ties and having a recognized leader. In an article discussing tribal endurance in North…

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Fabric of Identity

Fabric of Identity

October 4, 2007

If the fabric of global society is analogous to a constantly shifting patchwork of cognitive relationships between tribes, institutions, markets and networks, then the fabric of each component of this…

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Broken Record

Broken Record

September 28, 2007

My friend Paul de Armond once remarked that it seemed life in America was like a giant broken record in the sky that kept playing the same segment of a…

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Acquiring Perspective

Acquiring Perspective

September 27, 2007

I was looking over the posts at Native America this morning, and thought about the vast amounts of time and money expended by Indian tribes in the last half-century to…

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Principles of Psywar

Principles of Psywar

September 21, 2007

With the advent of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the world indigenous resurgence will require the linking of national, regional, and local movement resources through a…

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Tribes Nations States

Tribes Nations States

September 19, 2007

Media and think tanks on the payroll of the US government or military understandably have a state-centric bias when it comes to describing or analyzing conflict between tribes, nations, and…

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Ungoverned or Ungovernable

Ungoverned or Ungovernable

September 17, 2007

In the 2007 RAND publication Ungoverned Territories: A Unique Front in the War on Terrorism, RAND scholars note, “Since the end of the Cold War, failed or failing states and…

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Lost Souls

Lost Souls

September 12, 2007

In the movie Dead Man, the wandering, poetic Native American (Gary Farmer) encountered by William Blake (Johnny Depp) responds to Blake’s question ‘Who are you?’ by answering, “I am nobody.”…

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Blueprint for Community

Blueprint for Community

September 7, 2007

When Edward F. Edinger claimed Western society no longer has a viable, functioning myth, he wasn’t claiming we no longer have a mythology, only that the values and identity expressed…

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Tall Tales

Tall Tales

September 5, 2007

My northwest tribe was salmon people. The Great Silver Argatmor — who leaps from the underworld as Goll the mythical salmon, metamorphosed from the red horizon of the sun that…

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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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