It hurts my heart hearing about and watching people suffer. Dying without loved ones feels cold and cruel, for the ones left behind and to those passing. Still, this is where we are because of all the actions taken under falsified and tainted gossip passed off as truth.
Read MoreIt is more important than ever that we break free of this corrupt system and the corrupt people who run it...and that we move forward with open hearts and open minds...but what do we do about all of this pent up rage? What do we do when we are too sad or too anxious to get up in the morning? How do we fight the depression that threatens to consume us?
Read MoreOn this, the 130th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre, I wish to first express my deepest sympathy for the Lakota people who are still healing from this tragedy.
Read MoreWhat impressed me about these young people is none of them let their fear cripple them. Instead working with Sarah Sense-Wilson as volunteers they reached out to help and protect others. They came together as a collective to protect our Elders and families.
Read MoreI often say that food does not just feed us through physical calories. It also nourishes us mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. When I am hunting, fishing, foraging, or gardening, I am in touch with the land, our mother, and I am also witness to the hearts, minds and voices of my ancestors. I am participating in ceremony.
Read MoreThis pandemic underscores the systematic racism in this country that places certain populations in food deserts, provides little to no access to quality health care, and situates affordable housing near toxic and hazardous waste facilities — all of which lead to communities with poorer health outcomes that are more likely to die from viruses.
Read MoreThe 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).
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