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UN Headquarters, New York City – Today is the third to the last day of a two-week session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues meeting in Conference…

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In reference to creating consciousness, storytellers, like other artists, play host to wonders of the imagination. (Jay Taber is a writer and storyteller in San Francisco.)

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Memory of the World UNESCO’s Memory of the World programme aims at preservation and dissemination of valuable archive holdings and library collections worldwide. Documentary heritage reflects the diversity of languages,…

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I recently had a chance to observe firsthand how knowledge is passed on between old and young professionals in the hospital. Older nurses shadowing younger ones with tips on care,…

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An Underground Existence In this article, my colleague Chip Berlet argues that self-identified progressives within the Democratic party are strategically ignorant about what is at stake in battling bigotry in…

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The Irish have a name for the formal process of coming together for a common purpose. But Meitheal is more than a collaboration; it is a traditional method of accomplishing…

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Strong Society As Patsy Whitefoot, president of the National Indian Education Association, observes, there are some things you can’t learn in school. For the Yakama elder, culture and identity are…

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It was hard for Toppenish teachers to understand why a funeral could keep Yakama Nation students away from school for a week. Or why some tribal students would suddenly need…

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PBS Pablum? Is the PBS series on Native Americans, We Shall Remain, yet another noble savage saga, instilling sympathy in whites and hopelessness in contemporary Indians? Is Steven Newcomb of…