Indigenous Peoples’ Day: A Call to Higher Consciousness by Wakinyan LaPointe & Thorne LaPointe

Indigenous movements carry the generational dreams and fire of their predecessors and ancestors needed to ignite, and spark transformation across the world. Indigenous narratives and storytellers are perhaps among our best hopes in breaking through settler-colonial narratives aimed at widespread capitalist environmental degradation that threaten all life.

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Trespass Decision Issued by Regional Director's Office on Federal Indian Allotted Lands Located on Fort Berthold by WPX Energy, Williston

Fort Berthold Indian Reservation sits in the heart of Bakken Oil Field in Western North Dakota. The lands are rich with resources such as oil and gas. Currently, there are 2,645 wells on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, and companies are expected to drill 3,907 more wells before the field is fully developed.

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Foundational Fairytales and the Lies They Tell On Books, Children and Truth by Oriel María Siu, PhD

There used to be a time in occupied America when only whites were allowed to write, read, and publish books. In fact, when Europeans started occupying the continent in 1492, one of the first things they did was burn the thousands of existing books Indigenous people had written in an attempt to destroy peoples' existing relationship with books and their contained knowledges.

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Statement by Honourable Murray Sinclair on the Pope’s Apology

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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