Turning Up the Heat on Global Warming

The biggest surprise in George Bush’s State of Union speech in January may have been his acknowledgment—for the first time—that global warming was a serious issue. A month earlier the Environmental Protection Agency took the remarkable step of proposing that the polar bear be listed as a threatened species because of global warming in the Arctic.

Transformation: The Art of Rick Bartow

If you look at Rick Bartow’s artwork you might assume that he is a highly trained, lifelong artist. Certainly his résumé supports that notion. His paintings, drawings, and sculpture are in the collections of a half-dozen museums around the world, including the National Museum of the American Indian, as well as corporate headquarters, upscale stores, and universities from Arizona to Tokyo.

Scenes from the Pilgrim Story: Myths, Massacres, and Monuments: An art installation by Sam Durant

Scenes from the Pilgrim Story: Myths, Massacres, and Monuments An art installation by Sam Durant Massachusetts College of Art November 7-22, 2006 Reviewed by Kathleen Kilgore

Our Land, Our Identity, Our Freedom: A Roundtable Discussion

Among the states of the United Nations, the ones that have concerns about the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples tend to focus on three elements: the lack of a definition of “indigenous,” land rights, and the concept of self-determination. For those states, these elements seem to threaten economic and political chaos on several fronts.

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War By Nathaniel Philbrick

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War By Nathaniel Philbrick New York: Viking, 2006 ISBN: 0670037605 Reviewed by Linda Coombs

Homecoming: Finding My Tribe in Vietnam's Central Highlands

Police documents printed on onionskin crinkle audibly with the rise and fall of my uncle’s breath. His eyes rove over the documents produced on an archaic typewriter with a wild menagerie of Vietnamese punctuation—squiggles, dots, and tiny circles—scrawled in by hand.

Home Stretch

The world’s indigenous peoples have a serious human rights problem: The nations of the world refuse to recognize that indigenous peoples have human rights.

A Woman for All Seasons

As we Americans come to terms with the fact that our vast consumption of fossil fuels is fueling vast changes on our planet, indigenous peoples who live in those marginal places are facing climatic reordering of their very existence. Peoples accustomed to some relief from arid conditions now find themselves living in a permanent desert.

A Salish Feast: Ancient Roots and Modern Applications

The knowledge traditions of Salish country are neither old fashioned nor out of date. Indeed, this body of knowledge collected in the people, stories, songs, and the land has the most modern application: prevention and treatment of chronic diseases that now afflict growing numbers of native peoples as well as non-natives living in Salish country.