A South Dakota hotel owner’s social media post banning Native Americans has prompted a federal civil rights lawsuit as well as calls for the Attorney General to open a racial discrimination investigation.
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New York’s unjust actions go far beyond the restricted account in which Compact-related funds have been kept. That account has more than adequate funds to satisfy any Compact-related court rulings and judgements. The State knows this, as we have had to demonstrate that fact several times in our various court proceedings.
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Through hosting drum circles for healing, to providing medicines, and grass-roots organizing Unkitawa exemplifies the spirit of giving and selflessness. They have grown from one man’s good intentions into an organization recognized for their selfless acts.
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The Democratic National Committee Native American Caucus calls on President Biden to release political prisoner Leonard Peltier.
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As a sovereign Tribal nation and treaty signatory, the Snoqualmie Tribe is requesting the Canadian government directly meet with its leadership on a sovereign government-to-government basis. The Tribe will request that the Canadian government respect the rights of the Wet’suwet’en and protect the climate and ocean from the threats the pipeline presents.
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Beginning in 1790 and concluding in 1834, the U.S. Government adopted six federal statutes to regulate commerce with Indian Nations and to clearly establish the rules for the purchase of tribal property. The Court has found the State did not follow those rules. Known as the Non-Intercourse Act, the federal law specified that only legislation ratified by the U.S. Congress could transfer title to a purchaser.
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Last summer, the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation announced a new project aimed to reach as many reservations and Indigenous homelands as possible, bringing that signature Daybreak Star experience to your home. Via the internet, the newly established Daybreak Star Radio Network brings music, stories, news and on-air interviews, podcasts and conversations to Indigenous people throughout the world.
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Unceded Gidimt’en territory, so-called Smithers, British Columbia, Canada – On Friday, February 25, Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs met with Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and City National Bank (CNB) executives demanding the bank withdraw financing for the Coastal GasLink pipeline by March 11.
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“ Weaving instills in us a quest for beauty, a balance of energy, harmony, and acceptance of our current state from birth to old age—the beauty of the circle of life.”
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Today American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) announced new company-wide policy, which rules out providing insurance and investment to “any new Arctic energy exploration,” among other climate commitments.
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The U.S. Supreme Court announced today it will not take up a case brought by Energy Transfer, operator of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The pipeline operator sought to challenge a legal victory won by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, invalidating a key federal permit and requiring a complete environmental review.
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There are so many things that’re cool about being Indian. In fact, that’s why the overwhelming numbers of Non-Indians couldn’t handle us, I think, because we were just too cool. It made them jealous, jealous enough to decide to kill us all.
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As the winter sun sets on a Tacoma, Washington neighborhood, a community gathers before a large wooden cross. They bring flowers, balloons, and a pack of menthols to lay at an urban shrine, erected six years ago when Puyallup Tribal Member Jacqueline Salyers was shot and killed by police.
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The Winnemucca Indian Colony filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuits against Lithium Americas Corporation’s planned Thacker Pass lithium mine on Friday, February 11th, stating that “to build that Thacker Pass lithium mine on lands held sacred to Colony members would be like raping the earth and their culture.”
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The Snoqualmie Indian Tribe, a federally recognized Tribe headquartered in King County, has acquired roughly 12,000 acres of its ancestral forestlands in the Tolt River Watershed. The forest has significant cultural, historic, environmental, and economic value to the Tribe and is near the lands originally promised to the Tribe as its reservation by the federal government in the 1930s – a promise the United States did not keep.
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She catfished a nation.
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Non-scientists, laymen, and those ‘who don’t have a scientific bone in their body’ must judge science.
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We are at a crossroads in United States and Indigenous history. For the first time we have Indigenous people leading Departments of the Federal Government that were formed for the purpose of controlling and exterminating Indigenous peoples. I
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