Niagara Falls City Councilman Calls for Removal of Wounded Knee Medal of Honor Recipient from Monument

On this, the 130th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre, I wish to first express my deepest sympathy for the Lakota people who are still healing from this tragedy.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansDecember 30, 2020Wounded Knee, Last Real Indians, Medal of Honor

Native Youth Provide for Community and Elders During Covid Pandemic by Rae Rose

What impressed me about these young people is none of them let their fear cripple them. Instead working with Sarah Sense-Wilson as volunteers they reached out to help and protect others. They came together as a collective to protect our Elders and families.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansDecember 27, 2020Rae Rose, Last Real Indians, COVID19, Seattle, Native American, Clear Sky, UNEA, Sarah Wilson

Hope in the Time of Stress by Linda Black Elk

I often say that food does not just feed us through physical calories. It also nourishes us mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. When I am hunting, fishing, foraging, or gardening, I am in touch with the land, our mother, and I am also witness to the hearts, minds and voices of my ancestors. I am participating in ceremony.

Covid-19 in Native Communities: Recalling Past Trauma and Present Hope by Matt Remle

This pandemic underscores the systematic racism in this country that places certain populations in food deserts, provides little to no access to quality health care, and situates affordable housing near toxic and hazardous waste facilities — all of which lead to communities with poorer health outcomes that are more likely to die from viruses.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansDecember 23, 2020Matt Remle, Last Real Indians, cover-19, racism, genocide, jingle dress

Major Banks in Canada Stand With The Gwich’in

The Vuntut Gwitchin Government and the Gwich’in Tribal Council are applauding decisions from the five largest banks in Canada to stand united with the Gwich’in Nation, as we seek protection of our sacred lands in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansDecember 14, 2020Arctic drilling, Gwich'in Nation, Divestment

White by Design: The United States’ Long Enduring History of Family Separation: A Call for Intervention by Oriel María Siu, PhD

Deportation as a tool for controlling and removing people of color from –and within– U.S. territory is nothing new. The act of forcibly removing and separating non-white families, making people of color disposable, unwanted, and deportable, dates back to the very birth of this nation.

Spiritual Leaders Gather in Rosebud to Discuss COVID -19

In the early Spring, Rosebud Sioux President Rodney M. Bordeaux called on the Spiritual Leaders across the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation to come together to ask them for their help in addressing how Lakota spirituality and medicine might be used to help the Oyate to implement their own efforts to fight the coronavirus.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansDecember 13, 2020Corona virus, Rosebud, Last Real Indians, Leonard Crow Dog, ceremony, spirituality

When Thunder Met Lightning: The Story of How I Met My Brother Denny by Cliff Taylor

Denny was running on the treadmill in the kitchen, his shoes pounding on the track, occasionally you’d hear him talking Lakota into his phone where he was WhatsApping a student who wanted something clarified.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansDecember 1, 2020Cliff Taylor, Last Real Indians

Indigenous Prisoner Religious Rights Organization Urges Prayer For Inmates

Indigenous Prison Inmates Have Not Been Allowed Family Visitation or Group Worship Since March.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansDecember 1, 2020HUY, Last Real Indians, Prison

Murdered and Missing Indigenous Woman and Police Brutality towards People of Color by Cat (Mackenzie) T

Over the past century, thousands of American Indian and Alaskan natives have been kidnapped and murdered. Oklahoma has the highest rate of missing and murdered indigenous women in America.

Hidden Epidemic by Ty’teanna and Jah’Lene

According to the Seattle Indian Health Board, 94% of Native women have been raped, coerced, or assaulted in their lifetime but only 8% of the victims' cases have been convicted.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansNovember 25, 2020Seattle, MMIW, Clear Sky

National Congress of American Indians Calls on Insurance Companies to Adopt Free, Prior and Informed Consent Policies

At their 77th annual convention, The National Congress of American Indians passed a sweeping resolution calling on the, “U.S. insurance industry to adopt, as part of project and general insurance underwriting policies, a requirement to obtain and document the Free, Prior, and Informed Consent of impacted Tribal Nations.”

Raising AIAN Health Awareness: Understanding The Stigma Among Native Americans

This month should also raise awareness about public health issues and disparities that are occurring in our AIAN communities, not to mention highlight the significance of proper health and safety measures to keep the local communities healthy.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansNovember 21, 2020

Two Water Protectors Lock Down to Enbridge Line 3 Excavators Blocking Active Construction

This morning, two water protectors locked their bodies through the treads of excavators working on a pump station for Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline, as dozens of others rallied in support.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansNovember 18, 2020Line 3, tar sands, pipelines, Ginew

National Congress of American Indians Passes Historic Tribal Citizenship Protection Measure

“The resolution powerfully affirms both sides of the tribal citizenship coin: The Indigenous human and civil right to belong and the inherent Tribal sovereign right to decide who belongs,” said Shannon O’Loughlin, a Choctaw Nation citizen and Director of the Association of American Indians Affairs (AAIA).

FeaturedLast Real IndiansNovember 16, 2020Disenrollment, Nooksack, Gabe Galanda, NCAI

Looking Back at the Fish Wars 50 Years Later

This fall marked the 50th anniversary of an event that sparked the landmark ruling by federal Judge George Boldt in U.S. v. Washington that upheld our treaty-reserved rights to hunt, fish and gather.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansNovember 14, 2020civil rights, fishing wars, Billy Frank, Last Real Indians, Puyallup, Washington

Paddle to Seattle by Kailani and Klayton

The first Canoe Journeys took place in Seattle on July 21, 1989. Washington was celebrating the 100th anniversary of their statehood but the Tribes said “not today” because we were here first.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansNovember 13, 2020Tulalip, Seattle, Duwamish, Last Real Indians, Clear Sky, Native youth

Frontline South Dakota Indigenous Groups Shut Down Illegal KXL Man Camp Construction

On November 10, the Cheyenne River Grassroots Collective, 2KC Media and 7th Defenders shut down an illegal KXL Man Camp for the day to remind Joe Biden and Kamala Harris of their promise to stop the KXL pipeline.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansNovember 11, 2020Cheyenne River Sioux, keystone xl pipeline, tar sands, man camps, MMIW