The Chief Seattle Club, CSC, has long since tended to and nurtured the seeds for growth, sowing opportunities, and holding space for healing. I
Read MoreFormed in 2016 during the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline, Mazaska Talks seeks to leverage economic power to fight repression of Indigenous rights and the desecration of Mother Earth.
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 MoreThe Cannonball-Missouri River confluence is host to over a dozen archaeological and historical occupations and events over the course of the past one thousand years.
Read MoreMany indigenous languages-- Shoshone, Ute, Crow, Arapahoe, Northern Cheyenne, Cree, Nez Perce, Lakota/Dakots, and English—were used to speak in solidarity on the sacredness and importance of buffalo to the people and ecosystems of Turtle Island (North America).
Read MoreMikayla is a born storyteller, finding the inspiration for her stories in both the real world and the created worlds weaving them into the dreams and possibilities we all need to hear.
Read MoreIn 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 MoreAfter these many years of struggle, our People are relieved that agreement finally has been reached between the U.S. government, tribal and conservation partner organizations, and the leaseholder—Solenex, LLC—to retire the last Badger-Two Medicine oil and gas lease.
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 MoreGathering for Indigenous Water Justice & Global Collaboration to Take Place on August 15-17 in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA
Read MoreAs a settler nation, the United States has necessitated the invention and sustained dissemination of various lies in order to negate, hide, and distort the truth about its past and present. These lies get taught to children as fairy tales at schools -as stories with sweet beginnings and happily-ever-after endings- and these fictions form the backbone of the history and social studies curricula of most K-12 classrooms in the U.S.:
Read MoreOn August 15-17, MKW Co-conveners and partners will convene the Mni Ki Wakan (Water is Sacred) Summit, themed, “Indigenous Water Justice, Global Collaboration, & Dismantling Water Colonialism,” occurring in Rapid City, South Dakota
Read MoreThe American bison is inextricably intertwined with Indigenous culture, grassland ecology and American history. While the overall recovery of bison over the last 130 years is a conservation success story, significant work remains to not only ensure that bison will remain a viable species but also to restore grassland ecosystems, strengthen rural economies dependent on grassland health and provide for the return of bison to Tribally owned and ancestral lands
Read More“They turned their guns, Hotchkiss guns, etc. upon women who were in the lodges standing under a flag of truce, and of course as soon as they were fired upon they fled…. There was a women with an infant in her arms who was killed as she almost touched the flag of truce, and women and children of course were strewn all along the circular village until they were dispatched”(
Read MoreI’ve always thought from the get go when outsiders/non-natives are coming into our community’s… there should be a protocol in place… like an orientation, or even bigger than that.
Read MoreThe colonizer, slave master could only suppress, and never erase, this knowledge this genetic memory. Through our dreams, visions and communications with other nations we are reminded of who and what we are
Read MoreMembers of ICA call on the University of Washington to declare the climate crisis an emergency and cut all ties with the Fossil Fuel industry. ICA asks that the leaders of University of Washington take a stance, take action, and show students they care about their futures.
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