Indigenous Leadership

Learning from our oldest cultures.

Going Home

by Sarah Ruth van Gelder

posted Jan 18, 2005

One tribe took a chance on inviting a coalition of native and non-native people to help them win back their ancient village site and the home of Chief Seattle.

The Warriors Who Turned to Peace

by John Mohawk

posted Nov 11, 2004

John Mohawk discusses what we can learn from the legacy of Haudenosaunee peace making: peace is the result of righteousness, reason, and power.

Zapatistas and the Globalization of Resistance

by Bill Weinberg

posted May 20, 2004

They launched their uprising as NAFTA took effect, brought activists together in the jungles of southern Mexico, and inspired a worldwide justice movement. Ten years later, the Zapatistas are still thinking global.

the gifts from the four directions

by Ilarion (Larry) Merculieff

posted May 20, 2004

the gifts from the four directions by Ilarion (Larry) Merculieff. The elders tell us that when the people of the four sacred colors come together at last, we will see the beginnings of a new world.

Tribes Find Power In Wind

by Winona LaDuke

posted May 20, 2004

Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, COUP, first wind generator dedicated on Rosebud Reservation, clean energy windshed. sustainable homeland economic development. summer 2003.

Bolivians Topple President

by Lisa Gale Garrigues

posted Dec 31, 2003

The people of Bolivia took to the streets in October 2003 to bring an end to the leadership of President Gonzlo Sanchez de Lozada.

Turning Scarcity Into Abundance

by Vandana Shiva

posted Dec 31, 2003

The solution to scarcity is not more mega-projects, more control by giant corporations, or more globalization. The solution to scarcity is more democracy

Bringing Back Desert Springs

by Gary Nabhan

posted Dec 31, 2003

The Hopi people of the Black Mesa region know how to farm and thrive in the desert Southwest. But a giant coal company is draining the aquifer that feeds their sacred springs and makes their livelihood possible.

American Women

by Sally Roesch Wagner

posted Jan 31, 2002

How did early activists for women's rights dare to dream their revolutionary dream? They caught a glimpse of the possibility of freedom because they knew women who lived liberated lives, women who had always possessed rights beyond the suffragists' wildest imagination—Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women.

In the Native Way

by Tom Goldtooth

posted Nov 05, 2001

For a sundancer and bundle-keeper in the Dakota tradition, the world and the spirit are identical.

Innayan* Just Don't Do It!

by Victoria Tauli-Corpuz

posted Sep 30, 2001

The culture and technologies of the Kankanaey-Igorot people include an agricultural system and community life that has sustained for many generations.

Peacemaking: a family affair

by James W. Zion

posted Sep 30, 2000

Peacemakers in the Navajo Nation can quickly get to the bottom of a situation that resulted in a crime.

Navajo Justice

by The Honorable Robert Yazzie Chief Justice of the Navajo Nation

posted Sep 30, 2000

Navajo Nation revises criminal code, reduces sentences, and requires peacemaking.

Wild Rice Moon

by Winona LaDuke

posted Jun 30, 2000

The ancient, wild rice-centered culture of Minnesota's Anishinaabeg people confronts cultivated "wild" rice.

Indigenous Voices

by Berito Kuwar U'wa

posted Mar 31, 1999

Banking on Earth, Light, Water by Berito Kuwar U'wa of the U'wa People -- Buddhist Self-Reliance by Tuenjai Deetes -- Eco-Justice in the Niger Delta by Oronto Douglas