Leaders of the Native American Church of North America convened for the third consecutive year to advocate for peyote habitat conservation with leaders in Washington. Leaders and supporters met with Congressional leaders and staff to share progress of advocating for the conservation of peyote, a plant where only enrolled members of federally recognized tribes are permitted to possess and ingest for traditional ceremonial purposes.
Read MoreIn light of the severe health conditions and medical needs of longtime Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier, NDN Collective and Native Organizers Alliance are asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to free Peltier through compassionate release.
Read MoreSouth Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s recent remarks resulted in the Oglala Sioux Tribe banishing her immediately from tribal lands, and now the Ghost Nation has issued a public response regarding her false allegations.
Read MoreThe Hoopa Valley Tribe announced today the acquisition of 10,395 acres of land bordering the western boundary of the Tribe’s Reservation. The return of the Hupa Mountain property brings the Tribe’s landholdings to a total of over 102,000 acres.
Read MoreThis man continues to bully and terrorize those who do not align themselves with his agenda,
and he has been quite successful in doing so, especially among his following online, those who
have information gaps, those who just like drama, those who are so loyal to him.
In an effort to invoke the sovereign supremacy accorded only to Tribes and the federal government under the U.S. Constitution, Holt and Buffalo Field Campaign are calling for a Tribal Summit to be held in Fort Hall this November. The invitation to 31 Tribes calls for replacing “the existing failed bison management plan with a historic agreement that appropriately honors the fiduciary responsibility of the United States to Tribes.”
Read MoreRamona Bennett, the Puyallup elder who for nearly 60 years has been a leader of the Native rights movement in the Pacific Northwest, was listed last week in Forbes Magazine’s list of the 50 most impactful women over 50.
Read MoreTó Nizhóní Ání, Diné Citizens Against Ruining our Environment and the Center for Biological Diversity submitted resolutions to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today from Navajo chapters and agencies opposing three pumped storage projects on the Navajo Nation’s Black Mesa, southeast of Kayenta. A total of 18 chapters and agencies have passed resolutions opposing the projects.
Read MoreRapid City Mayor Allender resorts to fear mongering as NDN Collective plans a 4th of July protest march.
Read MorePress Release from Caribbean Development Bank regarding their relations with regional Indigenous Tribal Nations.
Read MoreTwenty year old Tomas Ayala lost his life in a tragic accident on May 13th after being hit by a drunk driver; the Town of Sahuarita, AZ attempted to enforce a $200 fine on his grieving family for a roadside memorial.
Read MoreIndigenous land defenders erect a tipi, forming Ox Sam Camp at PeeHee Mu’huh (Thacker Pass) Nevada - the site of a proposed lithium operation.
Read MorePresident Biden’s push for electric cars increases profits for Chinese corporations while simultaneously destroying the environment and consuming water on Native lands.
Read MoreDirect action from Indigenous People, including members of the Shoshone and Paiute tribes, successfully disrupted a lithium mining operation at Thacker Pass, Nevada.
Read MoreDisenrollment functions as a tool of colonization when used for bilateral violence, considering the direct attack on a person’s identity, genealogy and spiritual relationship to kin and land.
Read MoreThe Thacker Pass Lithium Mine in northern Nevada is headed back to Federal Court on January 5th as the lawsuits against the project near completion, but project opponents are raising the alarm that Lithium Nevada Corporation has already begun work on the proposed mine.
Read MoreOn Friday, December 2, 2022, a hearing was held wherein the Winnemucca Tribal Court summarily evicted the Elders and Residents without a trial, banished several people, and found for the Tribal Council without giving the Elders and Residents the benefit of a trial.
Read MoreA recently obtained letter reveals further fallout from the Snoqualmie Tribe’s exposing the Seattle-based land conservancy Forterra of misleading the tribe and the federal government in obtaining a grant worth up to $20 million.
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