World Events

May 16, 2013
By:
Peter d'Errico

There's an old saying, "Ignorance of the law is no excuse." It means the law applies whether or not you know the law exists. It's based on the idea that you have an obligation to know the law, and assumes that the law makes itself known.

March 26, 2013
By:
Dina Gilio-Whitaker

In 2010, after the United States as the final holdout endorsed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), the Bolivian government called for a high level plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to be held in 2014.

March 19, 2013
By:
Julianne Jennings

The boundaries of Great Turtle Island or what we now call the North American continent is now moving eastward across the Atlantic; a series of distinct seas separated by time and events transported by people; was not merely a land discovered and colonized by Europeans, but as a land inha

March 14, 2013
By:
Steve Russell

Why care about who heads a fantasy world of wealthy child molesters?

March 10, 2013
By:
Winona LaDuke

“Yesterday, the devil came here,”. “Right here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today…” Mr. Chavez said , in 2009 comments at the United Nations.

March 04, 2013
By:
Steve Russell

All Indigenous Peoples, not just American Indians, have a troubled history with anthropologists. This is because, early on, the study of humans was the study of primitive humans, and we are always considered primitive so as to justify separating us from land and minerals.

February 24, 2013
By:
Julianne Jennings

While strolling with friends through the busy streets of Spoleto, an ancient Italian city in the province of Umbria, we stepped into the start of celebrations or carnivals called, Quaresima.

December 11, 2012
By:
Sa’ed Adel Atshan

Ever since my childhood, I have always felt a deep connection with Native Americans.