Fort Berthold Indian Reservation sits in the heart of Bakken Oil Field in Western North Dakota. The lands are rich with resources such as oil and gas. Currently, there are 2,645 wells on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, and companies are expected to drill 3,907 more wells before the field is fully developed.
Read MoreThe resolution, released last Friday, would move investments of around $124 million currently funding fossil fuel projects into "climate solutions." This move would add UW to a long list of public and private universities which have committed to removing investments in fossil fuel projects.
Read MoreThere used to be a time in occupied America when only whites were allowed to write, read, and publish books. In fact, when Europeans started occupying the continent in 1492, one of the first things they did was burn the thousands of existing books Indigenous people had written in an attempt to destroy peoples' existing relationship with books and their contained knowledges.
Read MoreI continue to remind everyone to stay in prayer for the many issues we are facing as an Oyate in your own communities that seem to pull and divide our Oyate.
Read MoreFor a century everyone laughed about the Indians
who didn’t want their picture taken for fear
of having their soul stolen.
But what if it wasn’t actually a laughing matter.
Read MorePREY is more proof that the floodgates of opportunity for Native creatives are swinging open and off their hinges and that now is our time to tell our stories with all of the talent and imagination and heart that we possess.
Read MoreAt the 25th annual Lushootseed language camp, which took place from July 11 to July 22 at the Kenny Moses Building, over 120 Tulalip youth became an integral part of Lushootseed revival.
Read MoreReconciliation requires action, not passiveness. The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples specifically calls for action to restore culture, beliefs, and traditions destroyed through past actions. Failure allows the destructive agency to live with the benefit of those past misdeeds. For the children and descendants of Survivors, it is not enough that you have stopped abusing them; you must act to help them recover and commit to never doing this again.
Read MoreAs I said earlier, the examples used show that the difference between modern science and ‘medieval’ science is at most a matter of degree and that the same phenomena occur in both. The similarity increases when we consider how scientific institutions try to impose their will on the rest of society.
Read MoreI really wish you could see,
You helped keep my most important person here for my brother and me, now we can continue to live as
a team of three,
Read MoreThere is no freedom, there is no independence. There is an indoctrinated populace whose myths, claims to this land, exceptionalism, patriotism and cultures are now hollow, false, and have been used to terrorize the world. That’s our shared reality.
Read MoreThe Onondaga Nation will recover more than 1,000 acres of forest lands in the Tully Valley through an historic agreement with New York State and the federal government.
Read MoreToday the U.S. Supreme Court issued a rule that limits the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gasses from the power sector using a specific provision of the Clean Air Act.
Read MoreToday, the US Supreme Court made its decision in the case West Virginia v EPA. In this decision the court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has limited ability to regulate carbon emissions and the US energy sector.
Read MoreStates now have concurrent authority to prosecute non-Indians for crimes against Indians in Indian Country.
Read MoreToday, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, overturned the long-held understanding that states do not have authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country.
Read MoreHuy, an Indigenous religious freedoms advocacy organization, commemorated ten years of advocacy on behalf of Indigenous prisoners in the United States.
Read MoreRising global temperatures are intensifying floods, droughts and warming waters. Last summer’s heat dome led to temperatures in western Washington as high as 110 degrees. We didn’t just break records — we obliterated all-time records over an incredibly hot four-day period.
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