This is not a Native issue, it is a world issue, the outcome of this fight will affect all life on our beautiful planet.
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The final day of confirmation hearings for Rep. Deb Haaland was held today regarding her nomination by President Biden for Secretary of the Dept. of the Interior. If confirmed, Haaland would be the first Native American to hold a seat in a Presidential cabinet.
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Wednesday morning, three water protectors blockaded over one dozen active Enbridge Line 3 worksites with two different blockades. On one side, two Indigenous water protectors locked into a flipped over vehicle — on the other, one water protector ascended nearly 40ft in the air on a bi-pod blockading the entry road.
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The Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI) released a report today that graded all 50 states on the quality, collection, and reporting of COVID-19 data as it relates to American Indian and Alaska Native people.
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Water Protector Steve Martinez is confined in Burleigh County Detention Center after refusing, on principle, to give testimony before a federal grand jury.
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Over the next two months, we’re going to make the financial companies that support Enbridge and its toxic Line 3 pipeline feel the heat. Here’s the plan.
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Today, Lakota youth from the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River tribal nations announced a plan to run over 93 miles back to the Oceti Sakowin Camp site to call on President Biden to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).
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Thursday morning, eight water protectors locked to one another with barrels of concrete and a piano blockaded an Enbridge fueling station and worksite as dozens more held space.
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So if we are going to debate Indigeneity or cancel Pretendians, let’s also call out tribal politicians who deny their peoples’ birthright for power and profit. That, however, requires courage that a great many of us lack.
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On Tuesday afternoon, two water protectors locked themselves to an excavator laying pipe on an Enbridge worksite near Cloquet, MN. They marched onto the easement with over 50 activists, shutting down construction on the Line 3 tar sands pipeline for much of the work day.
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Shantel Hayes has been fighting for her mother and sister’s right to justice since their murder on March 10th, 1997. Shantel was just a child when she lost her mother. Her mother and baby sister’s murder forced Shantel to grow up fast. Shantel has had to fight a hard uphill and painful battle to keep their murderer behind bars.
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On January 7th, 2021 the Westchester Fire Insurance Company, a subsidiary of international insurance corporation Chubb, notified Energy Transfer Partners that it was cancelling a crucial $250,000 bond for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) segment in Iowa.
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The latest decision in a long-running legal battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) has delivered yet another victory to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a ruling today upholding a federal court’s decision that the U.S. Army Corps violated key environmental laws and requiring a full environmental impact statement (EIS) to study the risks the controversial oil infrastructure poses to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
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Yesterday, President Biden officially revoked the presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Apache Stronghold, on behalf of traditional Apache religious and cultural leaders, filed a lien on Oak Flat, or Chi'chil Bildagoteel, Wednesday with the Pinal County Recorder’s Office in Florence, Ariz., to stop the transfer of Oak Flat to British-Australian corporate mining giant Rio Tinto and its subsidiary, Resolution Copper.
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Saturday morning, approximately three hundred water protectors and Anishinaabe jingle dress dancers gathered at the Mississippi River, where Enbridge’s Line 3 is preparing to drill.
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It hurts my heart hearing about and watching people suffer. Dying without loved ones feels cold and cruel, for the ones left behind and to those passing. Still, this is where we are because of all the actions taken under falsified and tainted gossip passed off as truth.
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It is more important than ever that we break free of this corrupt system and the corrupt people who run it...and that we move forward with open hearts and open minds...but what do we do about all of this pent up rage? What do we do when we are too sad or too anxious to get up in the morning? How do we fight the depression that threatens to consume us?
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