Featured Collection
Dr. Rudolph C. Rÿser Writings
A unique collection spanning more than five decades of writing by the pioneering Indigenous author and founder of CWIS.
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Founded in 1979 as a document repository in response to a resolution of the Conference of Tribal Governments, this library has grown into one of the largest Indigenous Peoples libraries in the world, containing more than 40,000 full-text documents, reports, and publications from American Indian nations and Indigenous communities around the globe. More than 5,000 documents have been digitized, with ongoing efforts to preserve and make the remaining materials accessible through this open-source digital repository.
As the project continues to grow, it remains grounded in its founding purpose: to serve as a living resource where Indigenous knowledge—in its many forms—is preserved, shared, understood within its cultural and political contexts, and carried forward for future generations.
Center for Traditional Medicine
Infusing the healing arts and sciences with
cultural wisdom since 1977.
For over 40 years, we have focused on the practical application of traditional medicine (and integrative medicine) in global public health. We provide clinical care, consult on program design and development, and conduct research using Indigenous sciences and methods with a feminist lens.
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The Fourth World Journal (FWJ) is the world’s leading publication for ideas and analysis about and by writers from the world’s more than six thousand Fourth World nations.
Volume 25, Number 2 (2026): Fourth World Journal
This special issue of The Fourth World Journal is devoted to women’s traditional medicine as a vital source of knowledge, practice, and resistance. Bringing together healers, activists, scholars, and artists from across global Indigenous and diasporic contexts, this issue’s focus challenges dominant frameworks of health by foregrounding cultural, relational, and place-based experiences of health and healing. We read academic analysis, narrative, and creative expression, presented by a wide range of voices, practices, and geographies, that illustrate how women sustain and adapt healing traditions.