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

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North Africa Aflame - Indigenous Nations at the Center

North Africa Aflame – Indigenous Nations at the Center

March 28, 2011

From Tunisia to Egypt to Yemen, and Libya the untold story fundamental to the unrest is about the hundreds of indigenous nations, communities and groups that have suffered long suppression…

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Go to Commercial

Go to Commercial

March 28, 2011

Different societies and cultures respond to crisis in different ways. As Tokyo tries to downplay the threat of nuclear meltdown, the German Green Party has mobilized an anti-nuclear campaign that…

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Into the Fire

Into the Fire

March 27, 2011

Real News looks at the largest concentration of radioactivity on the planet, the spent nuclear fuel at hundreds of sites in the United States. With the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission…

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Dominance

Dominance

March 26, 2011

How many times have you heard people say nothing ever changes? How often does this fatalistic attitude serve as an excuse to be lazy, cowardly, or otherwise self-indulgent, rather than…

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Harvard Handmaid

Harvard Handmaid

March 25, 2011

In yet another episode of the handmaid’s tale, Harvard is hosting Christian apostles whose claim to fame is exorcising witchcraft and demonizing gays. (Indigenous spirituality is one of their targets.)…

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Perverted Policies

Perverted Policies

March 24, 2011

Annie Bird reports on the latest anti-indigenous developments in Guatemala, where Mayans are being evicted from their homelands by the army and police to facilitate biofuel plantations. Repeating the colonial…

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Opening of exceptional circumpolar institute- EALAT

Opening of exceptional circumpolar institute- EALAT

March 24, 2011

Indigenous peoples and scholars are gathering in the far North today for the opening of a unique circumpolar institute, the EALAT Institute, in Kautokeino, Norway. A Sami elder states about who…

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Never What They Seem

Never What They Seem

March 23, 2011

Americans, as we see time and time again, are incredibly naive about world politics. By and large, they accept government propaganda, no matter how absurd. They bought the Cold War…

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Sacred Land Reader

Sacred Land Reader

March 22, 2011

The Sacred Land Reader, a companion to the film In the Light of Reverence, is available as a PDF download. The reader and teacher’s guide are located on the Sacred…

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Mapuche in Chile

Mapuche in Chile

March 18, 2011

A conference on discrimination facing indigenous peoples in Latin America is scheduled to take place at the European Parliament in Brussels on Thursday March 24.

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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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