Turtle Mountain Chippewa Celebrates Leonard Peltier’s Return Home After 49 Years in Federal Prison

Last week, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians hosted a welcome home celebration for Leonard Peltier, 80, who spent 49 years in maximum security federal prison for the convictions of a two FBI agents were fatally shot in the summer of 1975. His release is a result of a commutation signed by former President Joseph Biden in his last hour of his presidency on January 20, 2025, where Peltier will serve the rest of his sentence in home confinement. Peltier, a Turtle Mountain Chippewa citizen and an American Indian Movement activist, was arrested in Canada, in February 1976, and extradited to the U.S. from a shooting incident on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that left FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams dead on June 26, 1975. On June 1, 1977, Peltier was convicted for two counts of first-degree murder of the FBI agents and was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences.

All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer: Chief Arvol Looking Horse calls for Unity to Protect Earth

Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe, calls on people from around the globe to gather at sacred places on June 21 and join in prayer for the healing and protection of Grandmother Earth.

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Concepts of Micro and Macro Decolonization by Jimmy Lee Beason II, Osage

Decolonization is a very broad concept that has been interpreted in many different ways. Within the online Native community through social media, concepts of decolonization have taken on a multitude of meanings with memes and posts…

From Alcatraz to Moss Lake, the Land Back! Movement is Not New by Jimmy Lee Beason II, Osage

Although the term has gained popularity via social media and perhaps viewed as a recent trend, Land Back! actions have been in effect since the Red Power movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s.

White Entitlement and the Early Scouting Movement by Jimmy Lee Beason II, Osage

In 1902, a Scottish European, named Ernest Thompson Seton migrated to America and eventually settled in Connecticut. Living on 100 acres of “pristine” stolen Native land, it was here Seton, and his hardy band of juvenile Indian phonies were learning how to track animals, identify animal and plant species, communicate using “Indian sign language,” make shelter and tie ropes into complicated knots.