31-1 Passing the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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. One might put Bush’s environmental enlightenment...

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. They...

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 Did those old museum dioramas ever creep you out? You know, the brown mannequins in droopy leather loincloths, Daddy Indian skinning a deer, the papoose in his cradleboard dangling from a tree branch, and Mama grinding grits...

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. But that is largely because states do not...