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

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Ceremony

Ceremony

November 19, 2007

“I will tell you something about stories. They aren’t just entertainment. Don’t be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.”…

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Modern Symbols Market Tradition

Modern Symbols Market Tradition

November 16, 2007

To be healthy means to be rich. This reality is widely understood and accepted within contemporary western society. The trend is towards a healthy and sustainable lifestyle. Aspects that have…

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Mirror Dance

Mirror Dance

November 15, 2007

I was only nineteen when I first saw the tumbling falls of the upper Skagit from behind some huckleberry bushes that grew along a river path that I’d stumbled on…

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Maine Episcopalians decry 'doctrine of discovery'

Maine Episcopalians decry ‘doctrine of discovery’

November 12, 2007

In 1496, Henry VII, King of England, authorized John Cabot to sail to ”undiscovered” non-Christian lands, subjugate their inhabitants, confiscate their resources and claim the land in the name of…

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Ancestors

Ancestors

November 10, 2007

Recent discoveries and interpretations of my ancestors’ graves in Southern France, associated with cave paintings from fifty thousand years ago, gave me pause to think about modern notions of what…

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My World In My Kitchen

My World In My Kitchen

November 9, 2007

My World In My Kitchen Food and how we prepare food is one of the most central aspects of daily life. More intimate than our language can ever be, cooking…

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Its not easy Being “Green”

Its not easy Being “Green”

November 9, 2007

The Russians dump nuclear waste in the Arctic seas, the Republic of Congo sees companies with the consent of some government officials dump 20 metric tons of toxic waste into…

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Summit Will Focus on Indigenous Rights of Mobility, Border Militarization

Summit Will Focus on Indigenous Rights of Mobility, Border Militarization

November 9, 2007

SAN XAVIER, TOHONO O’ODHAM NATION (Arizona) — A human rights crisis for Indigenous Peoples living along borders in the Americas threatens their survival, with rapidly expanding militarization and new laws…

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A World Apart

A World Apart

November 7, 2007

Leslie Marmon Silko and Ray A. Young Bear, both of whom pleasantly informed my appreciation of storytelling, seem almost like a different world from the dark, poetic weavings of Louise…

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The GWOT, the Joker and the Dominos of 2007

The GWOT, the Joker and the Dominos of 2007

November 5, 2007

Guest Contributor: Marc Sills Incessant high-intensity violence in Iraq and Afghanistan dominates media coverage and public awareness of warfare today.  Behind both conflict theaters, the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT)…

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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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