On Tuesday afternoon, two water protectors locked themselves to an excavator laying pipe on an Enbridge worksite near Cloquet, MN. They marched onto the easement with over 50 activists, shutting down construction on the Line 3 tar sands pipeline for much of the work day.
Read MoreShantel Hayes has been fighting for her mother and sister’s right to justice since their murder on March 10th, 1997. Shantel was just a child when she lost her mother. Her mother and baby sister’s murder forced Shantel to grow up fast. Shantel has had to fight a hard uphill and painful battle to keep their murderer behind bars.
Read MoreOn January 7th, 2021 the Westchester Fire Insurance Company, a subsidiary of international insurance corporation Chubb, notified Energy Transfer Partners that it was cancelling a crucial $250,000 bond for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) segment in Iowa.
Read MoreThe latest decision in a long-running legal battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) has delivered yet another victory to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a ruling today upholding a federal court’s decision that the U.S. Army Corps violated key environmental laws and requiring a full environmental impact statement (EIS) to study the risks the controversial oil infrastructure poses to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
Read MoreYesterday, President Biden officially revoked the presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
Read MoreApache Stronghold, on behalf of traditional Apache religious and cultural leaders, filed a lien on Oak Flat, or Chi'chil Bildagoteel, Wednesday with the Pinal County Recorder’s Office in Florence, Ariz., to stop the transfer of Oak Flat to British-Australian corporate mining giant Rio Tinto and its subsidiary, Resolution Copper.
Read MoreSaturday morning, approximately three hundred water protectors and Anishinaabe jingle dress dancers gathered at the Mississippi River, where Enbridge’s Line 3 is preparing to drill.
Read MoreConfederate flags waved in the capitol halls today, someone sat in Nancy Pelosi's chair with their boots up, while another man stole the podium as a keepsake for his mancave. Countless others were armed with high caliber weapons, and had these people been black, they'd all be in cuffs or dead. What's your definition of terror? Attacking Macy's in protest of capitalism run amok and people dying at the hands of cops is not the same crime as attacking a governing body with the threat of violence. It was as if the lesson from Michigan and men plotting to rape and kill governor Gretchen Witmer wasn't enough of a test run. But, yet there's a video of capital security posing for photos with armed insurgents.
Read MoreIt hurts my heart hearing about and watching people suffer. Dying without loved ones feels cold and cruel, for the ones left behind and to those passing. Still, this is where we are because of all the actions taken under falsified and tainted gossip passed off as truth.
Read MoreIt is more important than ever that we break free of this corrupt system and the corrupt people who run it...and that we move forward with open hearts and open minds...but what do we do about all of this pent up rage? What do we do when we are too sad or too anxious to get up in the morning? How do we fight the depression that threatens to consume us?
Read MoreOn this, the 130th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre, I wish to first express my deepest sympathy for the Lakota people who are still healing from this tragedy.
Read MoreWhat impressed me about these young people is none of them let their fear cripple them. Instead working with Sarah Sense-Wilson as volunteers they reached out to help and protect others. They came together as a collective to protect our Elders and families.
Read MoreI often say that food does not just feed us through physical calories. It also nourishes us mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. When I am hunting, fishing, foraging, or gardening, I am in touch with the land, our mother, and I am also witness to the hearts, minds and voices of my ancestors. I am participating in ceremony.
Read MoreThis pandemic underscores the systematic racism in this country that places certain populations in food deserts, provides little to no access to quality health care, and situates affordable housing near toxic and hazardous waste facilities — all of which lead to communities with poorer health outcomes that are more likely to die from viruses.
Read MoreThe Vuntut Gwitchin Government and the Gwich’in Tribal Council are applauding decisions from the five largest banks in Canada to stand united with the Gwich’in Nation, as we seek protection of our sacred lands in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska.
Read MoreDeportation as a tool for controlling and removing people of color from –and within– U.S. territory is nothing new. The act of forcibly removing and separating non-white families, making people of color disposable, unwanted, and deportable, dates back to the very birth of this nation.
Read MoreIn the early Spring, Rosebud Sioux President Rodney M. Bordeaux called on the Spiritual Leaders across the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation to come together to ask them for their help in addressing how Lakota spirituality and medicine might be used to help the Oyate to implement their own efforts to fight the coronavirus.
Read MoreDenny was running on the treadmill in the kitchen, his shoes pounding on the track, occasionally you’d hear him talking Lakota into his phone where he was WhatsApping a student who wanted something clarified.
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