Today, hair is one of our greatest sources of healing, but also, one of our greatest struggles. Remembering a time when the United States forced Indigenous Peoples and youth to cut their hair during the boarding school era, and the legacy of resiliency and healing we now find ourselves in.
Read MoreOn March 10th, 1997 Shantel Haynes, her sister, and two younger brothers lost their loving mother in the most brutal and cruelest way possible. Debra Marie Blackcrow and her unborn daughter Samara were murdered.
Read MoreThe song they sang was an ancient one, sung by our clan ancestors to orcas they saw while out hunting. My aunt and the group sang the song to thank the child orca for coming to visit them, and also to say farewell.
Read MoreThe Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) strongly denounces the ongoing attempts by non-Indigenous fisherman to intimidate, threaten, and prevent Mi’kmaq fisher men and women from exercising their unextinguished and constitutionally affirmed fishing rights.
Read MoreWomen’s rights icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg left us and we owe her a debt that cannot be repaid.
Read MoreNot even a worldwide pandemic could stop Indigenous people defending their land rights or Black and Indigenous solidarity against systemic racism and violence. Canadians are rising up in solidarity. There is no going back to the status quo.
Read MoreBig corporations accused of driving environmental and health inequalities in black and brown communities through toxic and climate-changing pollution are also funding powerful police groups in major US cities, according to a new investigation.
Read MoreOn Thursday, September 10, 2020, in a long-awaited ruling, United States District Court Judge Daniel Traynor (District of North Dakota) allowed a lawsuit challenging law enforcement’s 2016 use of fire hoses and munitions against water protectors opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) to move forward with discovery.
Read MoreArchaeologists were joined by members of the Aquinnah Wampanoag and the Mashpee tribes in order to monitor the research, and experts from the Public Archaeology Laboratory at the time declared the site to be ‘very significant.’
Read MoreThe insanity of QAnon is creeping into the mainstream, which should surprise no one. We're a country that elected a used car salesman as a president and weaponized people wearing masks as a political stunt. I saw a meme with a guy who put a midnight special on his mask's left side to "own the libs." This is the festering maw of America in 2020.
Read MoreNative Americans die from police violence more than any other American, a fact that is chronically overlooked.
Read MoreJohn made and sold authentic Native carvings to shops along Seattle’s waterfront and at the Pike Place Market, just as his father and other family members have done for over a hundred years. He was considered the most talented carver in his family.
Read MoreWe openly encourage younger authors and first-time writers. If folks need assistance with editing, we’ll certainly do that, but one thing we pride ourselves on is that we don’t want to tell people how to tell their stories, or rewrite their stories.
Read MoreMr. Chiefstick is the latest in a growing number of Indigenous people who have lost their lives at the hands of Western Washington police. Over the past decade, John T. Williams, Milo Harvey, Cecil Lacy, Jr., Renee Davis, and Daniel Covarrubias also died in this region due to local police violence.
Read MoreWe bought our plane tickets. We crossed our fingers. We hoped against all hope. And then, as expected, the Ponca powwow was officially cancelled.
Read More“This just reminds me of the first time that white people came. They kicked our families out of their territory and then they burnt all their huts and everything else, and put them on their so-called reserves. This is what this reminds me of,” stated Fred Tom, Chief Gisday’wa of the Gidimt’en Clan
Read MoreOn Monday the Trump Administration announced it has completed its review of an oil and gas leasing program in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). With this Record of Decision announcement, Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt has stated that he expects the first round of leasing for the 1.56-million acres in the ANWR to take place before the end of 2020.
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