JPMorgan Chase, the world’s largest banker of fossil fuels, announced this afternoon that it is committing to push its clients to align with the Paris Agreement and work towards global net zero-emission by 2050.
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Debra Marie BlackCrow was born in Wyoming on September 11, 1958 to an Arapaho mother and an Oglala Lakota father. Debra’s mother, Esther Addison BlackCrow, was one of the children that were forced to live in the boarding schools and had to bare witness to the horrors inflicted upon the children by the nuns and priests.
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day amplifies the profound and powerful call to a higher consciousness by Indigenous Peoples and youth who continue to be the first line of defense for Unci Maka (Grandmother Earth).
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This August, the InterTribal Buffalo Council (ITBC) will transfer 40 Yellowstone buffalo to 16 Native American Tribes in nine states in partnership with the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes. These transfers will help develop and sustain Tribally-managed buffalo herds while preserving the unique genetics and lineage of the largest and continuously free-roaming buffalo herd.
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Without at least a little scare, Trump beating Coronavirus, something to maybe given him a Jacob Marley moment of self-reflection, is the worst possible news. From here on out, we know the score, we know he's going to downplay the virus, and we know he's going to make some rash choices to move the needle in his favor, whether it be with a drug or opening the country back up in his typically chaotic way.
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Dozens of events took place across the country today as part of “Stop Funding Tar Sands: Day of Solidarity with Frontline Communities,” an international day of demonstrations against the financing of tar sands pipelines that are harming Indigenous communities and the climate.
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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.
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On 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.
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The 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.
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The 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.
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Women’s rights icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg left us and we owe her a debt that cannot be repaid.
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Not 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.
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Big 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.
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On 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.
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Archaeologists 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.’
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The 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.
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Native Americans die from police violence more than any other American, a fact that is chronically overlooked.
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John 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.
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