I posted yesterday my 105 page working paper entitled “The International Law of Colonialism: A Comparative Analysis. It will be published by Lewis & Clark Law Review. You can download the article for free by clicking on this link. I have written five other law review articles on this subject and have written one book [...]

Someone sent me this interesting joke. “United Native Americans (UNA) are proud to announce that it has bought the state of California from the whites and is throwing it open to Indian settlement. UNA bought California from three winos found wandering in San Francisco. UNA determined that the winos were the spokesmen for the white [...]

It is troubling to hear that the Maori language is at risk of dying out. Maoris make up something like 15% of the population of New Zealand and I believe that the language was nearly the same for all tribes (iwis) across the two islands that comprise that modern-day country. The reason I think its [...]

The Toronto Globe and Mail published recently an opinion piece by Maude Barlow the national chair of the Council of Canadians and author of Our Right to Water about an action the United Nations General Assembly took one year ago when it adopted a resolution recognizing the human right to safe and clean drinking water [...]

The Internet Press Service reports that an Inupiaq village on an island north of the Bering Strait is seeing its way of life gradually disappear due to higher temperatures, rising sea levels, declining numbers of sea animals, and shrinking shorelines wrought by climate change. Compared to the general population in the United States, Indigenous peoples [...]

The Washington state education system is developing class room materials on tribal sovereignty and a curriculum for teachers to use. Check out “Since Time Immemorial: Tribal Sovereignty in Washington State.” http://indian-ed.org. For example, one of the units is entitled “The Point No Point Treaty,” and students read information such as “Indian Treaties As Sovereign Contracts” [...]

The British Columbia Supreme Court on May 18th upheld a lower court decision that the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations have the aboriginal right to fish any species of fish within their traditional territories. They also have the right to sell the fish they catch within their own commercial fishery structure. The decision is a vbig ictory [...]

The U.S. Department of Justice unveiled a new legislative proposal to stiffen federal prison sentences for certain domestic violence crimes in Indian Country and to expand tribal authority to enforce protective orders against non-natives living on reservations. Reports show that domestic violence against Indian women is at an epidemic rate. One-third of all Native women [...]

Australia’s Attorney General condemned the burgeoning number of incarcerated young Aboriginal people and called it a “national crisis.” Aboriginal children are 28 times more likely than other Australians to be sent to juvenilie detention centers. And, while Aborigines make up only 2.5% of Australia’s population, they comprise 25% of the nation’s prisoners. Attorney General Robert [...]

The cleanup from the BP oil spill is turning up dozens of sites where archaeologists are finding human bones, pottery, and weapons left by prehistoric American Indian settlements more than 1,300 years ago. Teams hired by BP have discovered more than 100 such sites. The location of the sites is being closely guarded to prevent [...]