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

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Indigenous Governments Petition Human Rights Body against Nicaragua

Indigenous Governments Petition Human Rights Body against Nicaragua

July 12, 2018

Leer en Español The Nicaraguan government in tandem with the Hong Kong Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Company (a small company owned by Chinese entrepreneur Wang Jing with no known knowledge…

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We Will Defend Each Other

We Will Defend Each Other

July 6, 2018

On the day Americans note their independence from Britain in the year 1776 when slavery officially still existed, I reflect on the words of Frederick Douglass: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick…

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Let the 3 Sisters of Sleep Help you Rest

Let the 3 Sisters of Sleep Help you Rest

July 4, 2018

Stress is common among activist scholars. We are on the ground supporting change and the need for change feels endless at times. Likewise, being indigenous or Native in societies who…

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Yezidi Update:<br>Camps Flooded

Yezidi Update:
Camps Flooded

June 11, 2018

Several weeks ago more than 25,000 Yezidi were inundated by rains that flooded them out of their camps. The Ezidikhan government immediately sought help from Iraq and got none so…

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Forced Sengwer People Evictions in Kenya: EU, WBnk, Finland Complicity

Forced Sengwer People Evictions in Kenya: EU, WBnk, Finland Complicity

May 24, 2018

The European Union, World Bank and Finnish government’s donation of funds to the government of Kenya for a conservation program and watershed protection facilities renders them complicit in alleged genocide…

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Rebuilding Democratic Society

Rebuilding Democratic Society

May 16, 2018

The power of moral sanction is central to rebuilding democratic society. An examination, therefore, of the strengths and weaknesses of this tool of social change is warranted.    Moral sanction alone…

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Trumplicans Gunning for American Indian Lands and Resources

Trumplicans Gunning for American Indian Lands and Resources

May 14, 2018

The Trumplicans of the US government announced a week or so ago that it would force American Indians to comply with their policy that Indians must comply with Medicaid work…

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Ezidikhan Engagement, Reconstruction, Return and Judicial Remedies for the Crime of Genocide

Ezidikhan Engagement, Reconstruction, Return and Judicial Remedies for the Crime of Genocide

May 8, 2018

CWIS Yezidi Recovery Fund Campaign The Most Recent Yezidi Crisis Ever since the 3rd of August 2014 when forces of the Islamic State attacked the Yezidi people in their indigenous…

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Outlawing Tribal Sovereignty

Outlawing Tribal Sovereignty

April 26, 2018

Termination as U.S. Policy In May 2016, the paradox of dual citizenship for American Indian tribal members–caught in a legal system that is used as a weapon against them–was the topic…

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Erin

Erin

March 27, 2018

My tribe is nEoghan Ua Niall (Irish language), or Owen O’Neal (English language). Eoghan means noble. Niall means champion. Literally translated, we are the Noble Champion tribe. The apostrophe, frequently…

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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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