Monthly Archives: May 2011

Link Ḵwáan A ḵwáan is a geopolitical group in Tlingit culture. It has no exact English translation, but is often given as “tribe” or “people”. Each ḵwáan is centered around a settlement or two, and is comprised of a number … Continue reading →

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 →

From AI/AN ATS 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 … 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 →

From AI/AN ATS ….. 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 … 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 →

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 →

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 land. We never … Continue reading →

A new article at AI/AN Attack the System highlights how the US Government subdued American Indians across the North American continent: through the destruction of our economic bases, in this case, buffalo. Genocide by Other Means: U.S. Army Slaughtered Buffalo … Continue reading →