CWIS
Activist scholars advancing the rights of indigenous peoples worldwide
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Supporting self determination of indigenous peoples. Supporting Traditional Medicine practices
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Center for Traditional Medicine Fourth World
Center for Traditional Medicine Fourth World Documentation Project Fourth World Papers Program Forum for Global Exchange
Yezedi Trauma Recovery and territorial restoration
Providing technical support, consultation, conflict negotiations for the Yezidi Government as they rebuild their communities and infrastructure
Fourth World Journal
Peer reviewed, full color activist scholarly journal devoted to the voices of indigenous scholars and activists and their allies
Climate Change Policy for Indigenous Peoples
Researching how climate change is affecting indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest and providing effective solutions and consultations to tribal communities to mitigate these effects and draw on indigenous ways of knowing
Environmental Restoration Project at Yakama Nation
Working with the Yakama Nation to address the effects of nuclear waste from Hanford on tribal land
Education program
Providing online digital education in Traditional Medicine, Diabetes prevention, Native Women's leadership and environmental Justice
Chief George Manuel Library
A documentation repository of over 1600 original documents and growing reflecting rare and historical records of indigenous peoples tribal history political social and economic history over the last 50 years
Governance and Intellectual and Cultural Property Rights
CWIS contributed to and promoted the development of language and policies for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples for over 25 years until its adoption by the UN General Assembly in 2007. Following its adoption, CWIS developed plans for an international protocol and policies that establish an intergovernmental mechanism between nations and states.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Establish sharing and cooperation between nations through effective and appropriate policy;
Democratize international relations between nations and nations and states;
Support indigenous peoples to access traditional knowledge systems and ideas that embody appropriate epistemologies and ontologies
Promote the health and wellbeing of indigenous peoples through the restoration of natural foods and medicines appropriate to each culture.
Promote the social, economic, political, cultural rights and good governance authorities of indigenous peoples; and
Promote conflict transformation and establish new international law to prevent and establish accountability for crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity to preserve the distinct cultural identity of nations.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
The main strategic emphasis is the application of traditional knowledge systems through activist research, education and public policy scholarship in the fields of traditional
healing arts and sciences and Fourth World geopolitics. The Center engages in direct communication links to Fourth World nations and organizations around the world and each is a recipient of CWIS newsletters in English and Spanish, general releases and invitations to participate in CWIS dialogues concerning emerging issues confronting Fourth World nations.
Our Emphasis will be on:
Fourth World Mental Health and Diabetes, Medical Massage for Diabetes through the Center for Traditional Medicine
Planning and development of online bi-lingual (English & Spanish) educational courses including but not limited to
Effects of elevated CO2 in Earth’s atmosphere on Fourth World traditional foods and medicines
Model regulator legislation for tribal governments to modify and adopt concerning regulations of access to and use of traditional foods, plants and medicines.
Establishment of an International Criminal Tribunal on Genocide for Fourth World Nations through nations’ adoption of a Covenant on Formation of an International criminal Tribunal on Genocide.
Topical health and geopolitical television productions for distribution through FNX (First Nations Experience) television network in the United States and expansion of CWIS work in Social Media and CWIS newsletter.
Investigative reports on the situation of Indigenous Peoples, and special reports on traditional foods and medicines through Intercontinental Cry
Expanding the Chief George Manuel Memorial Library holdings to incorporate more current indigenous materials focused on chronic disease, health and healing, and community trauma as well as geopolitical concerns in particular the problems of genocide and climate change.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have operated since 1979. We are a diverse organization of indigenous and non-indigenous activists scholars worldwide.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Over
27 Laws & Regulations Drafted
Over
3500Students Mentored and Educated
Over
4000 Original Tribal Documents Digitized
Over 7000 Individuals Receiving Medicine
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
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Operations
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CWIS
Board of directorsas of 01/28/2024
Dr Leslie Korn
Amelia Marchand
Okanogan/Colville
Amy Dejarlais, B.A., MA
Anishinabe
Ku Kahakalau, PhD.
Hawaiian
Henry Cagey
Lummi
Gillian Joseph
Dakota
Joaquin Marchand
Sinixt/ Blackfeet /Iroquois
Leslie Korn
Organizational demographics
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