You'd have thought that we're America, we get it done. NOPE. Instead, we're getting $1,200 to shut up. Almost half of our economy is in the toilet and we’ve got the largest body count. Sometimes, being number one isn't that cool. Watching the U.S. government deal with COVID-19 is like the Ministry of Magic dealing with Voldemort coming back.
Read MorePort Gamble S’Klallam tribal members recently celebrated the return of nearly 1,000 acres to tribal ownership, 165 years after the tribe signed the Point No Point Treaty that ceded most of the tribe’s land to the U.S. government.
Read MoreThe news that major U.S. banks like JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and other Wall Street banks are preparing to ask regulators to allow them to take direct ownership of oil and gas companies should ring major alarm bells on Capitol Hill and across the nation.
Read MoreAs the coronavirus pandemic upends life in the United States and makes public rallies and protests impossible, Stop The Money Pipeline, alongside the Youth Climate Strike Coalition is announcing Earth Day Live, a three-day innovative and interactive livestream to address another global crisis threatening humanity: the climate emergency.
Read More“The actions of those who willfully violate this order may ultimately drag out the COVID-19 crisis even longer.”
Read MoreIn order to stop annihilating ourselves with our own hands and our outdates laws we need to understand why all these regulations were created and where they came from. Current attorney for the Nooksack 306 disenrollees, Gabe Galanda emphasizes, “Disenrollment is an existential threat to Indian people throughout the country.”
Read MoreOur vision is for our urban Native youth to have a multitude of platforms for elevating their voice and strengthen their connections with their culture and traditions, academic success and socio-economic-political empowerment is the result.
Read MoreStop the Money Pipeline, a coalition of over 90 organizations working to end the financing of climate destruction, are warning that an upcoming visit of oil CEOs to the White House on Friday cannot lead to a public bailout of the fossil fuel industry.
Read MoreThe Alberta Government has announced they will ignore the calls for climate action and instead invest $1.1 Billion dollars to TC Energy to build the Keystone XL pipeline. This project has been seen as an upon attack Indigenous sovereignty and direct contributor to fueling climate change.
Read MoreThe Hoopa Valley Tribe applauds Fresno County’s Superior Court refusal to validate a proposed contract between Westlands Water District and the Bureau of Reclamation. The contract would have allocated up to 1,150,000 acre-feet of Northern California water annually to Westlands, most of which would be imported from the Trinity River, which has sustained the Hupa people since time immemorial.
Read MoreWhatever way you’re trying to justify history or culture or whatever, just don’t. The Cleveland Indians celebrating “Chief Wahoo” with a big grin is pretty gross. Do you remember the old Braves logo? The one with the dude screaming with a mohawk? Not a good look, folks. The Atlanta Honkies or the Washington Missionaries (Not the religious people.) doesn’t exactly sound awesome, it sounds predatory.
Read MoreWhen she was approached to run for the open seat in the 22nd Legislative District in Thurston County, Breiler thought about it and decided to combine the timeless traditions she had learned from her family and from the canoe journeys with the modern administrative, academic and investigative skills she learned doing research.
Read MoreOn the very day that the United States has reached a record 100,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and our Tribe is desperately struggling with responding to this devastating pandemic -- the Bureau of Indian Affairs informed me that the Secretary of the Interior has ordered that Mashpee Wampanoag reservation be disestablished.
Read MoreA rent strike on April 1 means that tenants won’t pay rent, utilities, or other housing costs to landlords unless the city meets tenants’ demands. Strikers also demand the total suspension of interest and back rent, which would create an undue burden on people who are already paycheck-to-paycheck.
Read MoreThe Court found the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated the National Environmental Policy Act when it affirmed federal permits for the pipeline originally issued in 2016. Specifically, the Court found significant unresolved concerns about the potential impacts of oil spills and the likelihood that one could take place.
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