Editorial
In my comment on the campus fossil fuel divestment campaign, I noted that divestment won’t change a thing environmentally. It will only change ownership of some shares from public institutions to private ones–like the banks we bailed out with...
Treaties between the United States and Indian Nations are legally binding contracts. Their neglect over the last two centuries has come to a head as treaty-protected resources like salmon are on the verge of extinction. Just this week, Klamath River...
Foundation funding and its influence on NGO and institutional behavior has been a topic of discussion recently on North American indigenous activist list serves and news sites. Ford Foundation in particular is a major philanthropy in world affairs,...
As I observed in my comment on Peter D’Errico’s article on Indigenous Peoples at the UN, the uproar in some circles over statements made at the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues this week is much ado about nothing. By this, I do not mean...
Professional protestors from the indigenous moral theatrics industry are a dying breed. Even radical chest-pounder extraordinaire Ward Churchill begged off from the annual anti-Columbus Day protest this year. While getting arrested photo ops remain a...
As an analyst of social conflict where democratic values are being challenged, I try to inoculate audiences targeted by social viruses like conspiracism. To illustrate this particular social virus presently infecting the indigenous peoples movement, I...
Watching the violent clashes worldwide between indigenous peoples and modern states, one might be inclined to wonder what’s at the root of the problem. Is it just philosophical values, control of territories and historical injustice, or is there more to...
Elected tribal leaders in Canada and the US are governing authorities, but their authority is not exclusive. While their authority extends to matters delineated by Ottawa and Washington, the traditional governing authorities of tribes trace their...
As I noted recently in regard to the credibility issue haunting the North American Indigenous Peoples Caucus, these indigenous lobbyists at the UN have grown so accustomed to the prestige of hobnobbing with UN bureaucrats and diplomats that they have...
There are two major threads to white supremacy: revolutionary and mainstream. The skinheads, neonazis and Klan are revolutionaries. That is the smallest faction. The mainstreamers are far more numerous and their rhetoric is strongly reflected in the...
As I noted in my March 17 op-ed Labor Versus Humanity, the AFL-CIO/Wall Street alliance against American Indian nations over North American energy exports is not just environmental racism; it is a calculated assault targeting indigenous peoples human...
On the NAIPC listserv this week, Robert Free Galvan asks some important questions of the North American Indigenous Peoples Caucus and the elite indigenous lobbyists who manipulate it to conform to the UN colonial model. He interestingly asks about the...
As tribes across the US gear up to do battle with the Anti-Indian Movement, communications will comprise the front line of both defense and offense. Understanding how this war of ideas can be fought effectively will make the difference between winning...
In the April 16 issue of the Cascadia Weekly, the editor noted in his op-ed A History of Violence that treaty rights of Washington tribes that protect salmon and the water needed to sustain them are the basis of a new hate campaign promoted by the...
In the conclusion of Drumming Up Resentment, Ken Toole remarked that the public education system is doing a woefully inadequate job of providing information to students on Indian issues. The result, he says, is that citizens are increasingly ignorant...
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