What does Indigenous reclamation mean? by Manola Secaira

In the past year alone, the movement led by Native communities to reclaim lands and spaces — sometimes called the “Land Back” movement — saw huge gains in mainstream momentum.

Last Real IndiansJanuary 23, 2023Matt Remle, Last Real Indians, Crosscut, Charolette Coe, Seattle, Land back, racism, Indigenous

Disenrollment: an Overstep of Tribal Sovereignty by Keshia Talking Waters De Freece Lawrence and Zach Galehouse

Disenrollment 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.

Why I’m Thankful for 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance by Matt Remle

Despite colonial efforts to exterminate, terminate, relocate, and assimilate Indigenous populations, Native communities continue to resist efforts to both desecrate Unci Maka and strip Native peoples of their languages, spirituality and communities.

AXIS Capital Becomes First North American Insurer to Adopt Policy on Free, Prior and Informed Consent

AXIS Capital recently became the first insurer in North America to adopt a policy stipulating that it will not underwrite projects without ensuring clients have obtained the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of impacted Indigenous communities. This sets a best practice globally for insurers’ policies on Indigenous rights.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day: A Call to Higher Consciousness by Wakinyan LaPointe & Thorne LaPointe

Indigenous movements carry the generational dreams and fire of their predecessors and ancestors needed to ignite, and spark transformation across the world. Indigenous narratives and storytellers are perhaps among our best hopes in breaking through settler-colonial narratives aimed at widespread capitalist environmental degradation that threaten all life.

Sid Mills Joins Thanksgiving March to Free Indigenous Kids from Immigration Cages - You Can Too

An informal group of Northwest Indigenous warriors, headed by veteran Native rights protector Sid Mills, announced last week they plan to join a march in Southern California to demand the release of Indigenous children from immigration detention facilities.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansNovember 16, 2021Last Real Indians, Sid Mills, Indigenous, children, border, cages, northwest, March for Freedom

Indigenous Resistance Disrupts Billion of Tons of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Annually

The new report shows that Indigenous communities resisting the more than 20 fossil fuel projects analyzed have stopped or delayed greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least 25 percent of annual U.S. and Canadian emissions.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansSeptember 1, 2021Indigenous resistance, Indigenous, Last Real Indians, IEN

Protecting Mother Earth by Rae Rose

Every life form on our planet has power and absorbs energy, our Mother Earth included. This energy comes from the sun and is absorbed or consumed by the life thriving on our planet even after they are dead and buried.

Climate Change Endangers the Lives of People of Color First and Foremost by Disha Cattamanchi

The way that people of color are hurt by climate change is commonly known as the climate gap. The climate gap is the unjustifiable and discriminatory impact that the climate crisis has on people of color. The climate gap highlights the disproportionality of how communities of color are treated and unable to cope with climate hazards that may impact them.

The Global Collective of Indigenous People are Uniting

Our struggles are inherently intertwined with those of the Black Community. The Indigenous Peoples Movement views all members of the African American community and all African people as Indigenous People.