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Aborigines and Free Trade

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

In Australia a free trade agreement with the United States means bad news for Aboriginal communities, just as it was for First Nations in Mexico, Chile and Canada. more...

Native Declarations and Charters

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

A summary of some indigenous statements and declarations for aboriginal intellectual and cultural property rights and ethical standards from around the world. more...

Interface Research and Education

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

Increasingly, educators and researchers are using the interface between Aboriginal and non-local knowledge, identifying opportunities for synergy rather than dominance. more...

Aborigines and Conservationism

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

Aborigines and Greens both have a strong environmental focus in activism. But are conservationists in reality serving a colonial agenda when it comes to land rights? more...

Indigenous Knowledge Systems

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

Aboriginal logic systems and ways of knowing are mostly dismissed as primitive and childlike. In fact they are complex systems that are vital to the future of humankind. more...

Intervention for Indigenous Rights

By: Alan Sorum

Native groups have turned to the United Nations and international law to better protect their self-determination and group rights. more...

Rural Qualitative Field Research

By: Alan Sorum

Ethical field research in the Native community depends on a foundation of long-term commitment and good collaborative decision-making by researchers. more...

Eugenics and Aborigines

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

Genetic science, while having the potential to support social justice for Indigenous people, is often compromised by racist agendas grounded in Eugenics - Nazi ideology. more...

Intertribal Conflict Myth

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

Colonial governments create and ignore intertribal conflicts, perpetuating the myth of chaotic, violent savagery in the indigenous world. more...

Aboriginal Media Portrayals

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

Negative representation of Aborigines in the media has been identified as a major cause of prejudice against Indigenous peoples in Australia. more...

Iraq's Indigenous Peoples

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

Iraqis are not one undifferentiated culture, as perceived in the west. Here's a guest article from an indigenous Iraqi group - AINA. more...

Global Warming To Drown Tuvalu

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

Tuvalu representative to the United Nations, Minute Alapati Taupo, tells the UN of the troubles facing his "sinking island". more...

Waitangi Treaty Talk

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

Examining the famous New Zealand Treaty of Waitangi between the Maori and the British - the language of paternalism can be so amusing. more...

Origin Of Aboriginal Occupation

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

How long have Aboriginal people lived in Australia And America? Well, that depends on your cultural and political point of view. more...

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