Dear President Biden, Attorney General Garland, Director Carvajal, and Director Keller:
We write to request the expedited release of American Indian elder Leonard Peltier, who is 77 years old and who has served more than 44 years in federal prison, some in solitary confinement, in numerous prisons across the United States.
Read MoreIn this final dream, I was taken to Lakota territory on the Great Plains, which looked like places I visited before with brother Chase Iron-Eyes, Pine Ridge, Standing Rock, etc. Once I reached there (with some invisible – but audible – loving force that was escorting me), Chase (his spirit – like mine) was brought into the experience so that we were now sharing it together.
Read MoreGoodbye is never easy
Read MoreIn a strongly worded response to Gov. Jay Inslee’s veto of the Native consent provisions in an important climate change bill, the offices of the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe and the Vice President of the Quinault Nation, Fawn Sharp, blasted the governor’s first offer to reach a compromise.
Read MoreFor the last six years, Anthony Paul and I have been the target of a racially motivated criminal investigation and prosecution by the State of Washington’s Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW). But we are not the real target. The State’s real target is Tulalip Treaty rights. The real target is our way of life.
Read MoreHuy, an Indigenous religious freedoms advocacy organization, has received a $50,000 grant in recognition of its efforts to help rehabilitate Indigenous prisoners and prepare them for successful reentry into society.
Read MoreOur stories give us the power to live. Our stories are all deep with an almost unbearable love.
Read MoreNative American tribes were not only linked to the land; they were custodians of it.
Read MoreThe city of Niagara Falls, NY has officially inaugurated Indigenous People’s Weekend as an annual holiday celebration.
Read MoreFrontline Indigenous leaders from various fossil fuel fights from across Turtle Island have occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington D.C. for the first time since the 1970’s.
Read MoreAfter being held up in federal courts for over a year and a half, funds earmarked for members of two Southeast Alaska Native organizations were delayed even longer this week due to bad planning and computer glitches.
Read MoreThousands of people are expected to take part in a week of protests at the White House this October 11-15 to pressure President Biden to declare a climate emergency and end all new fossil fuel projects.
Read MoreOne hundred years later, after the Treaty of Walla Walla was signed, tribes watched their sacred rivers and waterfalls being dammed one after another. The fishing wars had begun as the American government tried to take away treaty rights from Northwest tribes.
Read MoreFor thousands of years, huckleberry has served as an important food, medicine, and trade good to the Coast Salish peoples. Mountain huckleberry is most abundant in the middle to upper mountain elevations, and favors open conditions following disturbances like fire or logging.
Read MoreOpponents of the proposed Thacker Pass lithium mine in northern Nevada will gather on Sunday, September 12th, to commemorate a massacre of at least 31 Northern Paiute people on that day in 1865 with prayers and songs.
Read MoreFor Native Americans having long hair is culturally relevant and significant. The importance of having long hair differs from tribes and nations. Some tribes’ belief long hair gives them power and knowledge, others feel connected to the cosmos, and some grow it long to honor their ancestors and culture.
Read MoreThe evolution of Native American women's clothing is the mirror of a society's changing nature. Beyond the beauty of indigenous attire lies a flurry of codes that reveal as much about the person wearing them as their environment.
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