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

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Muckleshoot Indian Tribe gives grant to CWIS

Muckleshoot Indian Tribe gives grant to CWIS

August 20, 2007

The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe has given a general grant to CWIS in the amount of $1,200. The Tribe tries to be proactive in meeting the needs of its community and…

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On the Warpath

On the Warpath

August 19, 2007

In this 2005 Mother Jones article by Julia Whitty, we meet Blackfeet Nation banker Elouise Pepion Cobell, who has made it her mission in life to recover the $176 billion…

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Corporate Socialism and the Rape of Nature

Corporate Socialism and the Rape of Nature

August 18, 2007

In the early 1970s corporations throughout the world and particularly those based in the United States began to stretch their wings trying out their relatively new identity as “persons” under…

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Indigenous Identity

Indigenous Identity

August 17, 2007

As an American, I think indigenous identity is something diasporaed Europeans are still getting a handle on, and it seems to help to communicate with our still-rooted relations on the…

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Autonomy, Self-government vs. Power and Wealth

Autonomy, Self-government vs. Power and Wealth

August 16, 2007

Fourth World nations throughout the world, after more than fifty years of struggle against forces of power and money, push now for autonomy and the power to govern themselves and…

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Convergent Responders

Convergent Responders

August 16, 2007

In this article, CWIS associate scholar Janaka Jayawickrama (of the Trauma Risk Reduction Programme Disaster and Development Centre at Northumbria University) wrote about his experience organizing relief in the wake…

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Foreign Occupation not Religious Hate

Foreign Occupation not Religious Hate

August 15, 2007

Robert A. Pape, the University of Chicago professor of Political Science gets it. US, British, Australian, Chinese, Russian and Israeli leaders should pay close attention to his words: “…suicide terrorism…

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Moblogging Jokkmokk

Moblogging Jokkmokk

August 15, 2007

In this paper by Stephanie Hendrick and Therese Ornberg, The Weblog as an Immersive Space is explored based on the coverage of a Sami cultural festival by a team of…

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2007 Tribal Canoe Journey

2007 Tribal Canoe Journey

August 15, 2007

This year, on July 30th, 2007, Canoe Families from around the Northwest Coast came together at the Lummi Nation. On this day Lummi Nation celebrated its first potlatch since 1937….

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State Impunity

State Impunity

August 14, 2007

“Impunity” is one of those words increasingly heard throughout the Americas and the world generally. Governments, Organized Crime, Corporations, The Church have increasingly become the beneficiaries of impunity–commission of violence,…

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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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