The U.S. Supreme Court announced today it will not take up a case brought by Energy Transfer, operator of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The pipeline operator sought to challenge a legal victory won by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, invalidating a key federal permit and requiring a complete environmental review.
Read MoreThere are so many things that’re cool about being Indian. In fact, that’s why the overwhelming numbers of Non-Indians couldn’t handle us, I think, because we were just too cool. It made them jealous, jealous enough to decide to kill us all.
Read MoreAs the winter sun sets on a Tacoma, Washington neighborhood, a community gathers before a large wooden cross. They bring flowers, balloons, and a pack of menthols to lay at an urban shrine, erected six years ago when Puyallup Tribal Member Jacqueline Salyers was shot and killed by police.
Read MoreThe Winnemucca Indian Colony filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuits against Lithium Americas Corporation’s planned Thacker Pass lithium mine on Friday, February 11th, stating that “to build that Thacker Pass lithium mine on lands held sacred to Colony members would be like raping the earth and their culture.”
Read MoreThe Snoqualmie Indian Tribe, a federally recognized Tribe headquartered in King County, has acquired roughly 12,000 acres of its ancestral forestlands in the Tolt River Watershed. The forest has significant cultural, historic, environmental, and economic value to the Tribe and is near the lands originally promised to the Tribe as its reservation by the federal government in the 1930s – a promise the United States did not keep.
Read MoreShe catfished a nation.
Read MoreNon-scientists, laymen, and those ‘who don’t have a scientific bone in their body’ must judge science.
Read MoreWe are at a crossroads in United States and Indigenous history. For the first time we have Indigenous people leading Departments of the Federal Government that were formed for the purpose of controlling and exterminating Indigenous peoples. I
Read MoreCan you feel this vision the ancestors are carrying on their horses beside us? It’s there in Reservation Dogs. It’s all over Instagram and social media. And it was there in a history-making way in Standing Rock. The truth is all of us Natives are feeling it, like a spring bubbling up in our hearts, the life-waters of everything our ancestors passed down to us just roaring on out.
Read MoreThe United States Attorney’s office has decided to not charge 33 Indigenous water protectors and their allies who were arrested while peacefully occupying the Bureau of Indian Affairs lobby in the US Department of Affairs building on October 14th, 2021.
Read MoreThe Cherokee Nation hosted the launch of the United Nations’ International Decade of Indigenous Languages in Tahlequah last week. The three-day event featured language leaders from around the world, both in person and virtually, to share information and best practices on language preservation efforts.
Read MoreIn fact, it has been estimated that there were already more than 300,000 domesticated dogs in the USA by the time the first explorers arrived from Europe.
Read MoreThe longest season of the year was winter on the Great Plains. On the traditional Očhéthi Šakówiŋ lunar calendar, the year consisted of two spring, four summer, two autumn, and five moons or months. The word for "year," in fact, is “Waníyetu,” meaning “Winter.”
Read More“This obviously is a big win for the Crow Tribe, and for the continued vitality of treaty hunting,” said NARF Staff Attorney Dan Lewerenz, who represented the Crow Tribe as an amicus curiae in this case. “We sincerely hope that this is the end of the story—that the State of Wyoming will not appeal, but instead will give the Crow Tribe and its treaties the respect they deserve.”
Read MoreWe were put here to protect these lands and waters and that is what we will continue to do. We will continue the fight. Too much is at stake.
Read MoreThe Squaxin Island Tribe and Port Blakely have reached historic agreements for the Tribe to acquire approximately 1,000 acres of its ancestral lands from the forest products company. Included in the transaction are timberland, shoreline, and tidelands on the Little Skookum Inlet in Mason County.
Read MoreThe Stoney Education Authority (SEA), with support from The Language Conservancy, is releasing historic Stoney Nakoda language learning resources this December.
Read MoreThe negligence of our nation’s history has allowed for the continued racist representation of Native Americans, specifically when discussing their representation as mascots in amateur and professional sports.
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