Monthly Archives: May 2011

After weeks of peaceful protests, demonstrators, outnumbering police, have targeted buildings and set cars on fire in southeast Peru, where the government is allowing a Canadian firm to open a silver mine. Al Jazeera’s Craig Mauro reports from Peru. Break … Continue reading →

A proposed BC Hydro dam on British Columbia’s Peace River threatens to flood 40 miles of river valley where Treaty 8 First Nations tribes have made their home for centuries. The area includes hunting, fishing and trapping grounds as well … Continue reading →

On the beginnings of America, started by indentured whites, black slaves and free Native Americans. And on the beginning and growth of the American Empire. The film depicts American history as neither the standard “deification of our forefathers” of the … Continue reading →

….. or Rarámuri, as they call themselves. They are an Amerindian tribe of Mexico that has managed to avoid virtually every problem that has plagued we Indians north of the border. Their cancer, diabetes and suicide rates are at or … Continue reading →

Link Preacher Samuel Peters’s encounter with a free society was a memorable one. In 1781, he wrote in awe: “The conscious independence of each individual warms his thoughts and guides his actions. . . . Here is liberty in perfection!”[1] … Continue reading →

From Lingit Latseen A recent article in The Economist highlights what happens when two social concepts, alien to one another, compete in the political realm. Group rights vs individual rights – Me, myself and them WHEN one category of citizens … Continue reading →

Is Judgement Day coming tomorrow? A notice to all who plan on being raptured tomorrow: Feel free to sign over to me anything you feel will be unnecessary in the Kingdom to come. If you have a house, car, bank … Continue reading →

More info atInfoshop Leonard Peltier has been in prison since 1976 for the crime of defending his people. The government violated their own laws and the constitution in order to convict Leonard. Even the Tenth Circuit Court found that, “Much … Continue reading →

From Warrior Publications George Washington, in 1784, used the analogy “the savage as the wolf” to refer to our Indian ancestors as less-than-human “beasts.” As Henry Wheaton said in his Elements of International Law, “The heathen nations of the other … Continue reading →

From Lingit Latseen To the federal government: Your laws make us out to be criminals, yet we are guilty only of being who we always have been. Leave our native hunters, fishers and gatherers alone. We have always honored the … Continue reading →