The Vuntut Gwitchin Government and the Gwich’in Tribal Council are applauding decisions from the five largest banks in Canada to stand united with the Gwich’in Nation, as we seek protection of our sacred lands in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska.
Read MoreDeportation as a tool for controlling and removing people of color from –and within– U.S. territory is nothing new. The act of forcibly removing and separating non-white families, making people of color disposable, unwanted, and deportable, dates back to the very birth of this nation.
Read MoreIn the early Spring, Rosebud Sioux President Rodney M. Bordeaux called on the Spiritual Leaders across the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation to come together to ask them for their help in addressing how Lakota spirituality and medicine might be used to help the Oyate to implement their own efforts to fight the coronavirus.
Read MoreDenny was running on the treadmill in the kitchen, his shoes pounding on the track, occasionally you’d hear him talking Lakota into his phone where he was WhatsApping a student who wanted something clarified.
Read MoreIndigenous Prison Inmates Have Not Been Allowed Family Visitation or Group Worship Since March.
Read MoreOver the past century, thousands of American Indian and Alaskan natives have been kidnapped and murdered. Oklahoma has the highest rate of missing and murdered indigenous women in America.
Read MoreAccording to the Seattle Indian Health Board, 94% of Native women have been raped, coerced, or assaulted in their lifetime but only 8% of the victims' cases have been convicted.
Read MoreAt their 77th annual convention, The National Congress of American Indians passed a sweeping resolution calling on the, “U.S. insurance industry to adopt, as part of project and general insurance underwriting policies, a requirement to obtain and document the Free, Prior, and Informed Consent of impacted Tribal Nations.”
Read MoreThis year has been the year to solely reflect on everything, I’ve been trying my best to understand my place amongst my people while simultaneously teaching myself to deal with what’s to come and I know everyone is feeling it.
Read MoreThis month should also raise awareness about public health issues and disparities that are occurring in our AIAN communities, not to mention highlight the significance of proper health and safety measures to keep the local communities healthy.
Read MoreThis morning, two water protectors locked their bodies through the treads of excavators working on a pump station for Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline, as dozens of others rallied in support.
Read More“The resolution powerfully affirms both sides of the tribal citizenship coin: The Indigenous human and civil right to belong and the inherent Tribal sovereign right to decide who belongs,” said Shannon O’Loughlin, a Choctaw Nation citizen and Director of the Association of American Indians Affairs (AAIA).
Read MoreThis fall marked the 50th anniversary of an event that sparked the landmark ruling by federal Judge George Boldt in U.S. v. Washington that upheld our treaty-reserved rights to hunt, fish and gather.
Read MoreThe first Canoe Journeys took place in Seattle on July 21, 1989. Washington was celebrating the 100th anniversary of their statehood but the Tribes said “not today” because we were here first.
Read MoreOn November 10, the Cheyenne River Grassroots Collective, 2KC Media and 7th Defenders shut down an illegal KXL Man Camp for the day to remind Joe Biden and Kamala Harris of their promise to stop the KXL pipeline.
Read MoreNot everyone who LOOKS like a 'pure' indigenous person IS one, and many who look physically 'pure' are spiritually corrupt as hell, neither are the obviously genetically mixed ones who CLAIM to be 'pure in heart Indigenous Peoples'
Read MoreThe California Parole Board along with Governor Gavin Newson have agreed to release the murderer of an indigenous woman.
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