Women’s rights icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg left us and we owe her a debt that cannot be repaid.
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Not even a worldwide pandemic could stop Indigenous people defending their land rights or Black and Indigenous solidarity against systemic racism and violence. Canadians are rising up in solidarity. There is no going back to the status quo.
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Big corporations accused of driving environmental and health inequalities in black and brown communities through toxic and climate-changing pollution are also funding powerful police groups in major US cities, according to a new investigation.
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On Thursday, September 10, 2020, in a long-awaited ruling, United States District Court Judge Daniel Traynor (District of North Dakota) allowed a lawsuit challenging law enforcement’s 2016 use of fire hoses and munitions against water protectors opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) to move forward with discovery.
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Archaeologists were joined by members of the Aquinnah Wampanoag and the Mashpee tribes in order to monitor the research, and experts from the Public Archaeology Laboratory at the time declared the site to be ‘very significant.’
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The insanity of QAnon is creeping into the mainstream, which should surprise no one. We're a country that elected a used car salesman as a president and weaponized people wearing masks as a political stunt. I saw a meme with a guy who put a midnight special on his mask's left side to "own the libs." This is the festering maw of America in 2020.
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Native Americans die from police violence more than any other American, a fact that is chronically overlooked.
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John made and sold authentic Native carvings to shops along Seattle’s waterfront and at the Pike Place Market, just as his father and other family members have done for over a hundred years. He was considered the most talented carver in his family.
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We openly encourage younger authors and first-time writers. If folks need assistance with editing, we’ll certainly do that, but one thing we pride ourselves on is that we don’t want to tell people how to tell their stories, or rewrite their stories.
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Mr. Chiefstick is the latest in a growing number of Indigenous people who have lost their lives at the hands of Western Washington police. Over the past decade, John T. Williams, Milo Harvey, Cecil Lacy, Jr., Renee Davis, and Daniel Covarrubias also died in this region due to local police violence.
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We bought our plane tickets. We crossed our fingers. We hoped against all hope. And then, as expected, the Ponca powwow was officially cancelled.
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“This just reminds me of the first time that white people came. They kicked our families out of their territory and then they burnt all their huts and everything else, and put them on their so-called reserves. This is what this reminds me of,” stated Fred Tom, Chief Gisday’wa of the Gidimt’en Clan
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On Monday the Trump Administration announced it has completed its review of an oil and gas leasing program in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). With this Record of Decision announcement, Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt has stated that he expects the first round of leasing for the 1.56-million acres in the ANWR to take place before the end of 2020.
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Native Americans have a strong history that is interwoven with music. There is archaeological evidence of this that dates back to 10,000 BC, including instruments made of turtle shells that were used by Native Americans to create rhythms.
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Village of Matta Mourns the Murder of Okono-Arawak Chief Michael Karwofodi
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Over the course of the school year, the Lushootseed language warriors develop a strong connection with their students as they are in the classrooms weekly, some teachers daily. When schools began to close, naturally the instructors began to miss their students, as well as preparing lesson plans and growing the minds of future Tulalip.
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The Washington State Penitentiary (WSP), and Huy, an Indigenous non-profit advocacy organization, have collaborated to help incarcerated Indigenous people be spiritually rehabilitated, while providing skills and resources that can be used both inside the facility and in society upon release.
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