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

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A Good Death

A Good Death

August 24, 2007

In his masterpiece novels House Made of Dawn and The Ancient Child, N. Scott Momaday writes about the Plains Culture of the Kiowa during their glorious century of hunting buffalo…

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Arranging a Balance of Terror

Arranging a Balance of Terror

August 24, 2007

As they see it, the nations that won the war in Iraq now control the government, have an alliance with the Kurds and have established increasingly normalized relations with Iran…

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The Forced-Displaced

The Forced-Displaced

August 23, 2007

During the 1980s more than 100 thousand Mayans were forced from their villages into southern Mexico by the genocidal forces of the Guatemalan government while more than 1 million more…

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Stand and be Counted

Stand and be Counted

August 23, 2007

The 500 million people represented by the World Indigenous Movement do not control nuclear arsenals, central banks, or other weapons of mass destruction. What they do have in abundance, though,…

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Fourth World Eye forum is up!

Fourth World Eye forum is up!

August 23, 2007

The Fourth Word Eye is an online

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Woven Stone

Woven Stone

August 22, 2007

Though there were a few schools located in Native American communities or “Indian country” and American white teachers were sent out to educate Native American people, many, many children were…

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Puyallup Tribe of Indians gives grant to CWIS

Puyallup Tribe of Indians gives grant to CWIS

August 22, 2007

The Puyallup Indian Nation Charitable Fund granted $15,000 to the Center for World Indigenous Studies for its work through the Center for Traditional Medicine on 22 August 2007. Ms. Lena…

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Chronic Disease and the pill that poisons

Chronic Disease and the pill that poisons

August 21, 2007

Many Fourth World nations have experienced an explosive growth of chronic diseases in their populations. Diabetes, heart disease, obesity, depression, and suicide along with alcoholism and conventional and illicit drug…

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Reindeer People

Reindeer People

August 21, 2007

The word shaman comes from the language of the reindeer people of Siberia. To subdue these nomadic people who ranged from the Urals to Mongolia to the Arctic Circle, the…

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Let Kurds have Kurdistan

Let Kurds have Kurdistan

August 20, 2007

Kurdistan is a country of about 25 million people living under occupied control of five different states. While the Kurdish autonomous government in Northern Iraq exercises considerably more domestic authority…

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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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