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

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Applying Indigenous Knowledge

Applying Indigenous Knowledge

April 18, 2011

Bolivia’s Foreign Minister since 2006, David Choquehuanca is a leading voice in favor of promoting traditional knowledge and its parallel application to climate change mitigation and adaptation approaches.  Foreign Minister…

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Organizing Energy

Organizing Energy

April 15, 2011

Some of my best friends are political researchers and educators. A few of them make a living at this, but most are volunteers. While I once did research and used…

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Sex Trafficking and Indigenous People

Sex Trafficking and Indigenous People

April 14, 2011

Sex sells and it makes people money.  If you enslave people and traffick in prostitution you are committing a crime against humanity producing huge sums of money for those who…

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Between Governance and Genocide

Between Governance and Genocide

April 14, 2011

On March 25, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights held a hearing on the subject of indigenous jurisdiction arising in Andean states. As the international human rights regime explores legal…

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Pacific Wild

Pacific Wild

April 13, 2011

Pacific Wild books about bears, wolves and salmon in the Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia are a fine way of introducing children to the wonders of this magical land…

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Meitheal

Meitheal

April 12, 2011

I recently received a note from a colleague in Ireland who promoted the concept of meitheal (cooperative learning) for use in higher education. Having proven its worth through steadily improved…

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Globalization

Globalization

April 11, 2011

In their analysis of climate injustice, Maryan Adrangi and SK Hussan note the escalating globalization by NATO and the G20 coincides with increasing militarization against indigenous peoples, undermining their struggles…

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Indigenous Peoples on the Back-burner in Bangkok

Indigenous Peoples on the Back-burner in Bangkok

April 11, 2011

Bangkok Climate Change Agenda Setting session comes to a close The one week meeting of the Ad-hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperation (AWG-LC) and the Ad-hoc Working Group on the…

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Until You Look

Until You Look

April 9, 2011

A lot has changed since 1996, when leading researchers, analysts and activists convened at the Daybreak Star Center in Seattle to discuss the politics of land and bigotry, but one…

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Battling Bacteria

Battling Bacteria

April 6, 2011

According to the World Health Organization, the misuse of antibiotics over the last thirty years has ushered in a new age of drug resistant bacteria, including virulent new forms of …

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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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