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

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Oceans of Toxins

Oceans of Toxins

July 1, 2011

The oceans that feed and nurture life the world over are increasingly poisoned by human activity with the result that the oceans are “experiencing severe declines in many species to…

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CWIS Food Security, FAO and the UNNWP

CWIS Food Security, FAO and the UNNWP

July 1, 2011

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization authorized the establishment of the Committee on World Food Security which in turn asked it High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and…

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Facade of Understanding

Facade of Understanding

June 30, 2011

As noted in this article at Indian Country Today, the Obama Administration’s endorsement of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples comprises a facade of understanding, while largely…

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Dreams of Humanity

Dreams of Humanity

June 27, 2011

The success of the rule of law depends on who is making the law, or breaking it. The failure of the rule of law occurs when those people are one…

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Willful Ignorance

Willful Ignorance

June 26, 2011

Steven T. Newcomb recalls a conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia.

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Every Last Drop

Every Last Drop

June 25, 2011

Scott Thill examines the privatization of the United Nations.

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Kalahari

Kalahari

June 24, 2011

The Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve have an interesting website.

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Aggressive Detention

Aggressive Detention

June 24, 2011

Xenophobia and lack of compassion characterize the Canadian government stance toward Tamil and other refugees. The aggressive detention proposed by the Conservative Party, where refugees would automatically be held in…

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Perspective Proportion Design

Perspective Proportion Design

June 23, 2011

In his article at Indian Country Today, Duane Champagne discusses academia’s propensity to pay lip service to Native American studies without allowing it to flourish from the perspective of Native…

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The Price of Petroleum

The Price of Petroleum

June 22, 2011

In this short video, Melina Laboucan-Massimo of the Lubicon Cree in Northern Alberta discusses the destruction of their way of life by the Government of Canada and the oil and…

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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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