Articles

(2008): Who’s Sorry Now? Government Apologies, Truth Commissions and Indigenous Self-Determination in Australia, Canada, Guatemala and Peru
Official apologies and truth commissions are distinct mechanisms for addressing past wrongs, but their goals are very similar. Both are intended to represent a step forward...

(2007): In Pursuit of Self-Determination: Indigenous Women's Challenges to Traditional Diplomatic Spaces
When addressing a British treaty delegation in the late-1770s, Tsalagi (Cherokee) peace chief Ada gal’kala asked, “Where are your women?” He was speaking to the British exclusion...

(2007) Partnership in Action? Indigenous political mobilization and co-optation during the first United Nations Indigenous Decade (1995-2004)
The first United Nations’ International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (1995-2004) has now officially ended. As with previous UN Decades, such as the Decade for Women (1976-1985)...

(2006) To be ungovernable
In 1998, Ecuador’s president, Abdalá Bucaram, was overthrown by the Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (CONAIE), which represents 80 percent of the Indigenous peoples in Ecuador. To his detriment...

(2005) Being Indigenous: Resurgences Against Contemporary Colonialism
Indigenous is an identity, constructed, shaped and lived in a politicized context of contemporary colonialism. The communities, clans, nations and tribes we call Indigenous peoples are just that: indigenous to the lands they inhabit...


(2004) Alfred and Corntassel: A decade of rhetoric for indigenous peoples
Few people may realize that we are living in the United Nations’ (UN) "International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People" (1995 - 2004). The goal stated at the outset of the Indigenous Decade...

(2003) An Activist Posing as an Academic? [PDF]
A few years ago, while interviewing for a tenure track position at a large, public institution in the Midwest, I was informed that several faculty members suspected me of being an "activist posing as an academic"...

(2003) Who is Indigenous? [PDF]
The question, "who is indigenous?" is best answered by indigenous communities themselves....

(2002) Corntassel and Tilley: Virginia's Indian nations: Policy issues and
solutions for future generations[PDF]
Native peoples greeting English colonists in Virginia in 1607 were among the first victims of imported diseases and genocidal policies that decimated the Indian populations even as they helped arriving...

(1999) Let's teach respect, not racism: Ethnic mascots demean American Indians
Images of American Indians are pervasive in the United States. One can readily see Indians depicted on products ranging from butter to malt liquor. Names of some Indian nations are synonymous with sport..