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This page describes how Committee of 500 Years is made. It is here so that you can decide how much weight to give anything else on the site.
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This page describes how Committee of 500 Years is made. It is here so that you can decide how much weight to give anything else on the site.
We do not plan an editorial calendar. Articles appear when a question has come up often enough to be worth answering properly.
Nothing is published anonymously. A name on a page means somebody can be asked about it later, and that is the only accountability a small site has.
James Reed, Indigenous history and policy writer. James has written about Indigenous history, land rights and policy for over a decade. He focuses on the long arc of colonisation and its continuing effects on Native communities across North America.
Sarah Okafor, Advocacy and rights writer. Sarah covers Indigenous rights movements, treaty law and political advocacy. She has reported on campaigns from Standing Rock to mascot reform and writes about the practical work of building coalitions.
Michael Clark, Culture and education writer. Michael writes about Indigenous culture, language revitalisation and community education. He approaches every subject from the perspective of what understanding costs and what it makes possible.
The date on an article is the date it was published. When a change alters the advice, we update the modified date and say what changed. Cosmetic edits do not reset the date, because pretending a page is fresher than it is helps nobody.
We earn from some outbound links. That pays for hosting and research time, and it does not decide the verdict of any page.
If a partner asks us to remove a criticism, the answer is no, and the request itself may end up mentioned in a future article.
Send the page and the problem to info@committeeof500yearsofdignityandresistance.com. Typos are fixed silently. Facts are fixed quickly. Conclusions that turn out to be wrong are corrected in the open, with a note saying what we previously said.