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

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Murder in Honduras

Murder in Honduras

November 11, 2015

Murder of indigenous activists in Honduras has prompted the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, to issue a warning about state-sponsored ethnic cleansing there, where, since 2010, 44…

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KXL Rejection Hype

KXL Rejection Hype

November 10, 2015

The tribes that kept KXL out of their territories are understandably pleased by the momentary suspension of that pipeline project. This editorial does not diminish their ‘victory’, but rather tempers…

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Catalan Independence

Catalan Independence

November 9, 2015

Catalan Parliament says independence road map not subject to Spain.

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Protocols of Plant Medicine

Protocols of Plant Medicine

October 17, 2015

Pacific Northwest herbalist Elise Krohn discusses her learning and knowledge of native plant medicine, including her apprenticeship and subsequent clinical work with Coast Salish Indian tribes in Washington state.

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Radiation Exposure Risk

Radiation Exposure Risk

October 9, 2015

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided support for a study that cost $33 million that estimated radiation dose estimates from “Hanford Radioactive Material Releases to the Air…

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The Palestine Exception

The Palestine Exception

October 4, 2015

Report on Israel lobby reveals tactics to silence students.

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Nations in the Nuclear Cloud

Nations in the Nuclear Cloud

September 28, 2015

Seventy years after the first nuclear bomb detonation in 1945 as of July 2015 indigenous peoples’ territories and peoples remain at greatest health and environmental risk to radioactive and toxic…

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Anti-Indian Reader

Anti-Indian Reader

September 20, 2015

Anti-Indian Campaign articles by Jay Taber and John Schertow at IC Magazine Anti-Indian CERA by Terri Hansen, Indian Country Today Media Network Anti-Indian Movement on the Tribal Frontier by Rudolph…

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Historical Trauma

Historical Trauma

September 20, 2015

According to Medical Mission Sr. Katherine Baltazar, a psychiatric nurse practitioner for the Cheyenne River tribe, historical trauma undermines the core of community stability. A term coined by Native American…

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Netwar at Cherry Point

Netwar at Cherry Point

September 17, 2015

Dena Jensen examines the netwar (networked psychological warfare) waged by SSA Marine against Lummi Nation, and by extension, against the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians.

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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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