This is not a Native issue, it is a world issue, the outcome of this fight will affect all life on our beautiful planet.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansFebruary 24, 2021Rae Rose, Last Real Indians, Water rights, Lakota

Native communities will continue to urge Congress to confirm Deb Haaland as Interior Secretary

The final day of confirmation hearings for Rep. Deb Haaland was held today regarding her nomination by President Biden for Secretary of the Dept. of the Interior. If confirmed, Haaland would be the first Native American to hold a seat in a Presidential cabinet.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansFebruary 24, 2021Deb Haaland, Last Real Indians, Dept of Interior, Biden

Water Protectors Blockade Multiple Line 3 Worksites

Wednesday morning, three water protectors blockaded over one dozen active Enbridge Line 3 worksites with two different blockades. On one side, two Indigenous water protectors locked into a flipped over vehicle — on the other, one water protector ascended nearly 40ft in the air on a bi-pod blockading the entry road.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansFebruary 24, 2021Line 3, Tara Houska, Tar Sands, Last Real Indians

U.S. states are failing to track COVID-19 data for Native people

The Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI) released a report today that graded all 50 states on the quality, collection, and reporting of COVID-19 data as it relates to American Indian and Alaska Native people.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansFebruary 19, 2021COVID19, Last Real Indians, Urban Indian Health Institute, Seattle

Speaking Out Against Ethnic Frauds and Wannabes by Michelle Shining Elk

Ethnic frauds and wannabes misrepresent us. People who do not know what we are truly about, take the ethnic frauds and wannabes’ wholly inaccurate representations of us — as the way things really are. It’s why mainstream thinks we (American Indians) all walk around in leather, fringe, decked out in turquoise, with a jewelry trove full of chokers and buffalo nickel or eagle feather earrings, which all, of course. are located in our tipis that we live in.

Last Real IndiansFebruary 16, 2021

Indigenous Water Protector Jailed in North Dakota for Refusing to Cooperate With Secret Grand Jury

Water Protector Steve Martinez is confined in Burleigh County Detention Center after refusing, on principle, to give testimony before a federal grand jury.

Campaign Launched to Defund Line 3

Over the next two months, we’re going to make the financial companies that support Enbridge and its toxic Line 3 pipeline feel the heat. Here’s the plan.

Standing Rock Lakota Youth Announce 93-mile Relay Run Calling for Biden to Shut Down Dakota Access Pipeline

Today, Lakota youth from the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River tribal nations announced a plan to run over 93 miles back to the Oceti Sakowin Camp site to call on President Biden to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).

FeaturedLast Real IndiansFebruary 5, 2021Standing Rock, NoDAPL, Last Real Indians

Water Protectors Blockade Line 3 Fueling Station

Thursday morning, eight water protectors locked to one another with barrels of concrete and a piano blockaded an Enbridge fueling station and worksite as dozens more held space.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansFebruary 4, 2021Line 3, Giniw collective, Tara Houska, Last Real Indians, Tar Sands, pipelines

Grey Area: Pretendians, Disenrollment & Indigeneity by Gabe Galanda

So if we are going to debate Indigeneity or cancel Pretendians, let’s also call out tribal politicians who deny their peoples’ birthright for power and profit. That, however, requires courage that a great many of us lack.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansFebruary 3, 2021Last Real Indians, Gabe Galanda, Disenrollment, Pretendians, Indigeneity

Over 50 Water Protectors walk onto Line 3 Pipeline easement, two lock themselves to an excavator laying pipe

On Tuesday afternoon, two water protectors locked themselves to an excavator laying pipe on an Enbridge worksite near Cloquet, MN. They marched onto the easement with over 50 activists, shutting down construction on the Line 3 tar sands pipeline for much of the work day.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansFebruary 2, 2021Line 3, tar sands, Last Real Indians

Justice for the Family of Debra Marie Blackcrow: California Governor Reverses the Decision to Commute Sentence by Rae Rose

Shantel Hayes has been fighting for her mother and sister’s right to justice since their murder on March 10th, 1997. Shantel was just a child when she lost her mother. Her mother and baby sister’s murder forced Shantel to grow up fast. Shantel has had to fight a hard uphill and painful battle to keep their murderer behind bars.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansFebruary 1, 2021Debra Marie Blackcrow, Last Real Indians, Rae Rose, California, Gov Newsome, MMIW, MMIWG

Critical Dakota Access Pipeline Bond Cancelled in Iowa

On January 7th, 2021 the Westchester Fire Insurance Company, a subsidiary of international insurance corporation Chubb, notified Energy Transfer Partners that it was cancelling a crucial $250,000 bond for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) segment in Iowa.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansJanuary 31, 2021Dakota Access pipeline, DAPL, Last Real Indians

Appeals Court Rules for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in Pipeline Fight

The latest decision in a long-running legal battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) has delivered yet another victory to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a ruling today upholding a federal court’s decision that the U.S. Army Corps violated key environmental laws and requiring a full environmental impact statement (EIS) to study the risks the controversial oil infrastructure poses to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

Biden revokes Keystone XL, Indigenous leaders celebrate and push for stronger action

Yesterday, President Biden officially revoked the presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.

Apache file lien on Oak Flat, temporary restraining order to stop land transfer from Forest Service to foreign mining company

Apache Stronghold, on behalf of traditional Apache religious and cultural leaders, filed a lien on Oak Flat, or Chi'chil Bildagoteel, Wednesday with the Pinal County Recorder’s Office in Florence, Ariz., to stop the transfer of Oak Flat to British-Australian corporate mining giant Rio Tinto and its subsidiary, Resolution Copper.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansJanuary 16, 2021Apache, Last Real Indians, Trump

Hundreds of Water Protectors Walk Onto Line 3 Worksite, 8 Arrested

Saturday morning, approximately three hundred water protectors and Anishinaabe jingle dress dancers gathered at the Mississippi River, where Enbridge’s Line 3 is preparing to drill.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansJanuary 11, 2021Line 3, Ojibwe, Last Real Indians, Tara Houska

Republicans, This is Your F*$%ing Fault

Confederate flags waved in the capitol halls today, someone sat in Nancy Pelosi's chair with their boots up, while another man stole the podium as a keepsake for his mancave. Countless others were armed with high caliber weapons, and had these people been black, they'd all be in cuffs or dead. What's your definition of terror? Attacking Macy's in protest of capitalism run amok and people dying at the hands of cops is not the same crime as attacking a governing body with the threat of violence. It was as if the lesson from Michigan and men plotting to rape and kill governor Gretchen Witmer wasn't enough of a test run. But, yet there's a video of capital security posing for photos with armed insurgents.

Last Real IndiansJanuary 6, 2021