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An Anarchist Study of the Rotinonshón:ni Polity
“Where License Reigns With All Impunity” An Anarchist Study of the Rotinonshón:ni Polity The traditional society of the Rotinonshón:ni (Iroquois), “The People of the Longhouse,” was a densely settled, matrilineal, communal, and extensively horticultural society. The Rotinonshón:ni formed a confederacy of five nations. Generations before historical contact with Europeans, these nations united through the Kaianere’kó:wa into the same polity and ended blood feuding without economic exploitation, stratification, or the formation more »
The Other Side of the Ledger: An Indian View of the Hudson’s Bay Company
The Hudson’s Bay Company’s 300th anniversary celebration was no occasion for joy among the people whose lives were tied to the trading stores. This film, narrated by George Manuel, president of the National Indian Brotherhood, presents the view of spokesmen for Canadian Indian and Métis groups. There is a sharp contrast between the official celebrations, with Queen Elizabeth II among the guests, and what Indians have to say about their more »
FLASHPOINT: Controversial case about remedies, not rights
— Not long ago, a state’s Supreme Court wrote that a “rule forbidding resistance to an arrest when police officers act in good faith and under color of their authority … recognize[s] that in a society governed by laws our courts are the proper forum for challenges to the misuse of official power and for the vindication of rights.” But it wasn’t the Supreme Court of Indiana in Barnes v. more »
As Long as the Rivers Flow
As Long as the Rivers Flow: A Last Summer Before Residential School is a story for children about the joyful summer spent in northern Alberta in 1944. The story focuses on the daily routine of a ten-year-old Cree boy named Lawrence. His days are filled with family activities and personal adventures. At the beginning of summer Lawrence overhears the adults talking about how the children would have to attend a school more »
The Office of PERSON
The official state (…of mind) office known as “PERSON” This is the single most important lesson that you MUST learn. If you spend an hour to learn this material you will be rewarded for the rest of your life. The word “person” in legal terminology is perceived as a general word which normally includes in its scope a variety of entities other than human beings. See e.g. 1 U.S.C. sec 1. more »
East of Eden
There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: was it good or was it evil? Have I done well — or ill? –From East of Eden, page 413 I have yet to be disappointed by anything John Steinbeck writes … and East of Eden is no exception. Set in the heart of more »
Might is Right
Might is Right This is Ragnar Redbeard’s monumental book Might is Right or The Survival of the Fittest (1896) which outright rejects conventional ideas of human and natural rights and argues that only strength or physical might can establish moral right. Certainly one of the most controversial books ever written, it is considered the definitive statement on Social Darwinism, a philosophy that exalts the self over all others and advocates that the more »
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