http://www.halcyon.com/FWDP/ (World Wide Web Directory, 06/1995)
Welcome to the Center For World Indigenous Studies' World Wide Web site. Our goal is to present the online community with the greatest possible access to Fourth World documents and resources. We welcome your suggestions, comments and questions. Please feel free to e-mail us at jburrows@halcyon.com if you would like to send a message.
John Burrows,
Executive Director
The Fourth World Documentation Project was organized by the Center For World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) in 1992. Its mission is to document and make available to tribal governments, researchers and organizations, important documents relating to the social, political, strategic, economic and human rights situations being faced by Fourth World nations and create an historical archive of the political struggles waged by Indigenous Peoples to assert their rights as sovereign nations. The FWDP gathers documents from nations and organizations around the world and processes them into electronic text for distribution on the Internet, Peace Net and other computer networks. These documents form an electronic archive of voices and ideas from the Fourth World.
This project has been undertaken by CWIS at its own expense for the express purpose of disseminating the works of Fourth World authors, researchers and governments as widely as possible. In addition, the FWDP also archives and distributes documents by State governments and international bodies that are relevant to Fourth World nations and peoples.
The FWDP archives contain over 400 documents on Fourth World nations in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, Melanesia and the Pacific. The documents include essays, position papers, resolutions, organizational information, treaties, UN documents, speeches and declarations. The FWDP archives form a vital resource for tribal officials, researchers, activists or anyone interested in Indigenous Peoples and our past and present struggles to regain our land and freedom.
The Fourth World Documentation Project runs entirely on grants and private donations. If you find this information service useful to you in any way, please consider making a donation to help keep it running. CWIS is a non-profit [U.S. 501(c)(3)] organization. All donations are tax deductible.
Donations may be made to:
Center For World Indigenous Studies ATTN: FWDP P.O. Box 2574 Olympia, Washington USA 98507-2574
African Documents European
and Asian Documents Melanesian, Polynesian and Micronesian Documents North,
Central and South American DocumentsInternationally focused documents United Nations
Documents (Special index of above documents)To obtain more information on the Center For World Indigenous Studies, including our publication catalogue, click here.
Accesses made on this page since 20 March 1995