November 19, 2008
Australia's thought-provoking Apology
Okay, I am merely nine months late in commenting on the breakthrough apology that Australian PM Kevin Rudd offered to the indigenous peoples of Australia and the Torres Strait Islands...
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May 04, 2006
Evo makes his move
I want to express my good wishes to Evo Morales and the people of Bolivia as they try to take back some control over their country's mineral wealth. It looked...
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July 31, 2005
Counter-insurgencies and large-scale incarceration
Today I finished writing a long article I've been working on for a while, about the role of large-scale incarcerations in colonial counter-insurgency campaigns... Well, that was was sort of...
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July 05, 2005
Settler societies, indigenes, culture, language
Jonathan, Shirin, and I have been having a really interesting interesting discussion down here about issues of culture and power in settler societies. In the course of the discussion there...
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February 20, 2005
Fences and indigenous peoples
JWN reader Scott H., who is part Lenni Lenape, sent along a reference to this AP story out of Oregon yesterday, which tells of yet another attempt to fence in...
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