At the 25th annual Lushootseed language camp, which took place from July 11 to July 22 at the Kenny Moses Building, over 120 Tulalip youth became an integral part of Lushootseed revival.
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Reconciliation requires action, not passiveness. The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples specifically calls for action to restore culture, beliefs, and traditions destroyed through past actions. Failure allows the destructive agency to live with the benefit of those past misdeeds. For the children and descendants of Survivors, it is not enough that you have stopped abusing them; you must act to help them recover and commit to never doing this again.
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As I said earlier, the examples used show that the difference between modern science and ‘medieval’ science is at most a matter of degree and that the same phenomena occur in both. The similarity increases when we consider how scientific institutions try to impose their will on the rest of society.
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I really wish you could see,
You helped keep my most important person here for my brother and me, now we can continue to live as
a team of three,
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There is no freedom, there is no independence. There is an indoctrinated populace whose myths, claims to this land, exceptionalism, patriotism and cultures are now hollow, false, and have been used to terrorize the world. That’s our shared reality.
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The Onondaga Nation will recover more than 1,000 acres of forest lands in the Tully Valley through an historic agreement with New York State and the federal government.
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Today the U.S. Supreme Court issued a rule that limits the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gasses from the power sector using a specific provision of the Clean Air Act.
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Today, the US Supreme Court made its decision in the case West Virginia v EPA. In this decision the court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has limited ability to regulate carbon emissions and the US energy sector.
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States now have concurrent authority to prosecute non-Indians for crimes against Indians in Indian Country.
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Today, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, overturned the long-held understanding that states do not have authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country.
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Huy, an Indigenous religious freedoms advocacy organization, commemorated ten years of advocacy on behalf of Indigenous prisoners in the United States.
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Rising global temperatures are intensifying floods, droughts and warming waters. Last summer’s heat dome led to temperatures in western Washington as high as 110 degrees. We didn’t just break records — we obliterated all-time records over an incredibly hot four-day period.
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The endangered California condor, the largest native North American bird, has returned to Northern California redwood forests after a century-long absence.
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Nakani is a word that comes from the Tlingit language. Nakani is defined as a person, or entity, which serves as a connector and/ or go between for different people, places, and cultures.
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The cops in Uvalde, Texas stood outside a locked elementary school door while helpless, trapped children inside begged for help as they watched their classmates get gruesomely murdered.
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As of 2016, the National Crime Information Center has reported 5,712 cases of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls. Strikingly, the U.S Department of Justice missing persons database has only reported 116 cases. The majority of these murders are committed by non-Native people on Native-owned land.
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The urgent communication was submitted in response to the first reading of Bill No. 5923, "Rescue of the Pre-Hispanic Heritage", developed by the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala. Its provisions will cause the dispossession, privatization, and economic exploitation of two thousand seven hundred and fifty-four (2754) ceremonial centers, sacred sites, and other elements of Mayan spiritual, religious, and cultural heritage.
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18 year old white supremacist Payton Gendron shot and killed 10 people in Buffalo, NY on Saturday; wounding 3 others. A history of systemic racism in the city of Buffalo created a viable hunting ground for this psychopath.
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