King did NOT believe that using violence FIRST was good or useful, but he ACCEPTED THE REALITY that sometimes violence IS necessary to defend the innocent.
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The membership of this collaborative strongly condemns the murder of one of our fellow citizens, at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department. Furthermore, Metropolitan Urban Indian Directors Group condemns the ongoing and systemic racist ideologies that continue to run strongly through the department like a virulent and lethal pathogen.
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Twenty-one months ago, the Tulalip Tribes took a major risk by venturing into the cannabis industry and opening one of the very first recreational dispensaries operated in Indian Country.
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This situation isn’t about getting back to work – this is an excuse for the people who've felt trapped in an isolating system which is deteriorating in front of their eyes thanks to a diverse America waking up, to take up arms and to champion violence.
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Judge Clarke, of the U.S. District Court in Medford Oregon, on May 15 upheld the sovereign immunity and the water rights of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and the Klamath Tribes of Oregon.
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Three separate lawsuits against the Treasury Department have been filed by 18 tribal governments, seeking to stop ANCs from receiving stimulus funds. They all say Alaska Native corporations are private, for-profit companies, not tribal governments, and should not receive bailout money meant for tribes.
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In response to requests from the parties to narrow the ruling, the court allowed some minor projects to proceed under Nationwide Permit 12, but reaffirmed that the Army Corps cannot use the permit to approve the construction of Keystone XL or other oil and gas pipelines.
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Education systems were created to benefit European settlers. History classes are written by and for them. Most curriculum taught in schools comes from a European perspective. They even teach that Columbus “discovered” America. How can you discover a land where peoples already lived?
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The English definition of consultation is “a meeting with an expert or professional, such as a medical doctor, in order to seek advice.” In the Lakota language, wóglakA means “to speak about something.” In meeting with county commissioners, municipal, South Dakota Department of Transportation, Public schools and Federal agencies we have met the definition of consultation in both of our languages.
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Businesses in our little Oregon town are beginning to shut down, the uneasy reality of this worldwide situation reaching our midst, flowing into our world. Everybody’s talking about shelter-in-place
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The death of Andrea "Andi" Circle Bear, Cheyenne River Sioux tribal member, is what many are describing as a very preventable and unjust killing of our sister. Andrea was transferred to a federal medical facility, FMC Carswell in Fort Worth Texas on March 20th. By April 1, Andrea gave birth by cesarean section a month prematurely while on a ventilator.
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All roadways providing access to the City of Gallup shall be closed and only Gallup residents, those who work in Gallup, and members of the media shall be permitted entry into the municipality;”. Gallup is a border town to both the Navajo Nation and the Zuni Pueblo. Every weekend tens of thousands of people from both Navajo and Zuni travel to Gallup to purchase groceries, do laundry and haul water, among other essentials.
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As COVID-19 began to spread across the country in late March, the tribal chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe ordered checkpoints on that would limit non-reservation travelers into the Cheyenne River Indian Reservations.
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They love to put on the caps, wear the tactical gear like to say “we support cops and the military,” unless we have to fight them. Which is it? You can’t be all “pro-industrialized governmental agency” but think you can keep it checked with your rifles and fantasies of a street revolution. Do these men really believe that Bill from the suburbs of Chicago can defeat the most powerful military in the world? I hate to break it to you, but they’ve got Tomahawk missiles along with people so well trained, every neckbeard with an Alex Jones sticker on his truck would be toast in seconds. Waco is trending on Netflix. Give that spin if you’re thinking a standoff is a capable mission.
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The youth pledge is calling on people ages 13-25 to commit not to open their first bank account with JPMorgan Chase, due to the banks’ outsized role in financing climate change.
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Lead Plaintiffs the Tulalip Tribes, the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation in Washington state, the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians in Maine and three federally recognized Indian tribes in the state of Alaska, won a major victory for all tribes today at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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To me, balance means finding a way to have stable and equal footing in your body, mind, spirit, and emotions. In order to feel grounded in any of the four aspects, you need to feel stable in all of them.
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We are at a point in Indigenous history where our role as caretakers of the planet will be tested; we are the generations that will decide whether or not our ceremonies and languages will live on. We are the generations that will decide to protect mother earth.
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