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

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Nilliajut

Nilliajut

January 30, 2013

As announced in Nunatsiaq Online, a compendium of Inuit ideas about sovereignty in the Arctic has been released by the Inuit Knowledge Centre. The anthology, Nilliajut: Inuit Perspectives on Security,…

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CWIS #7 United Nations World Conference on Indigenous Peoples

CWIS #7 United Nations World Conference on Indigenous Peoples

January 30, 2013

The United Nations General Assembly decided in December 2010 by adopting resolution 65/198 to convene a Plenary Session of the General Assembly as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples scheduled…

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Destabilizing Bolivia

Destabilizing Bolivia

January 27, 2013

As Nil Nikandrov reports at Wrong Kind of Green, CIA financing of subversive NGOs and direction of terrorists via the U.S. Embassy in La Paz has continued since first discovered…

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US FEDERAL TAXATION DISPARITIES IN INDIAN COUNTRY

US FEDERAL TAXATION DISPARITIES IN INDIAN COUNTRY

January 26, 2013

This is the sixth report of the Good Government Research Group at the Center for World Indigenous Studies. These Reports are are produced at the request of American Indian government…

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Indigenous Nations in Europe

Indigenous Nations in Europe

January 25, 2013

A declaration of sovereignty passed by the Catalan parliament on Wednesday has other stateless nations in Europe like Wales watching. With referendums on independence looming in Scotland and Basque Country,…

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Mission of Defamation

Mission of Defamation

January 23, 2013

The integration of the U.S. State Department agenda with that of NGOs like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International didn’t happen by accident. Philanthropic foundations that underwrite NGOs advocating for…

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Language Church and State

Language Church and State

January 22, 2013

Life is full of ironies, sometimes amusing, sometimes inspiring. As Phil Mercer reports at the BBC, an indigenous language in Australia, once thought extinct, is being revived thanks in part…

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Tax Justice Seminar

Tax Justice Seminar

January 21, 2013

Tax Justice Network-Africa’s call for papers for its March 25-6 research seminar to be held in Tunis has a January 31 deadline for abstracts. The seminar on financing development through…

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“We Decide”

January 20, 2013

When indigenous nations ask that their knowledge, their territories, their way of life receive the respect that all humans expect they ask that other societies act as mature human organisms….

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Tuareg Under Siege

Tuareg Under Siege

January 19, 2013

With uranium and gold mines in Mali at stake, the invasion by France with Canadian and US support signals an extension of the North African offensive initiated by NATO in…

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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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