On February 14, thousands of people throughout Minnesota attended various demonstrations and memorial walks to raise awareness of missing Indigenous peoples. Advocacy work for missing Indigenous peoples has grown substantially over the last several years with new legislation providing more funding for aiding families who have a missing or lost relative due to violence, or trafficking. This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation https://www.iwmf.org/
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Indigenous demonstrators protest the continued use of the “Chiefs” by Kansas City, as they played the San Francicso 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. It is the second consecutive year where demonstrators organized a protest at the Super Bowl denouncing Kansas City, the National Football League, and racism in sports and media.
Article by Darren Thompson
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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s recent remarks resulted in the Oglala Sioux Tribe banishing her immediately from tribal lands, and now the Ghost Nation has issued a public response regarding her false allegations.
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Native and indigenous people in America report experiencing serious psychological distress 2.5 times more than the general population over a month’s time.
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Formed in 2016 during the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline, Mazaska Talks seeks to leverage economic power to fight repression of Indigenous rights and the desecration of Mother Earth.
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The Hoopa Valley Tribe announced today the acquisition of 10,395 acres of land bordering the western boundary of the Tribe’s Reservation. The return of the Hupa Mountain property brings the Tribe’s landholdings to a total of over 102,000 acres.
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The Cannonball-Missouri River confluence is host to over a dozen archaeological and historical occupations and events over the course of the past one thousand years.
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f you haven’t caught wind of it yet, Frybread Face & Me is the feature film debut of writer/director Billy Luther (Navajo, Hopi, Laguna Pueblo) and it’s about a young Navajo city kid getting dropped off to spend the summer with his grandma and cousin and assorted other relatives on the reservation.
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Many indigenous languages-- Shoshone, Ute, Crow, Arapahoe, Northern Cheyenne, Cree, Nez Perce, Lakota/Dakots, and English—were used to speak in solidarity on the sacredness and importance of buffalo to the people and ecosystems of Turtle Island (North America).
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Mikayla is a born storyteller, finding the inspiration for her stories in both the real world and the created worlds weaving them into the dreams and possibilities we all need to hear.
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This man continues to bully and terrorize those who do not align themselves with his agenda,
and he has been quite successful in doing so, especially among his following online, those who
have information gaps, those who just like drama, those who are so loyal to him.
In an effort to invoke the sovereign supremacy accorded only to Tribes and the federal government under the U.S. Constitution, Holt and Buffalo Field Campaign are calling for a Tribal Summit to be held in Fort Hall this November. The invitation to 31 Tribes calls for replacing “the existing failed bison management plan with a historic agreement that appropriately honors the fiduciary responsibility of the United States to Tribes.”
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Leonard Peltier is the longest serving Indigenous political prisoner in the history of the United States, having served nearly 50 years in federal prison.
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The passage of the ICWA was a major victory for tribal nations; and was a major leap in asserting tribal sovereignty in the US legal system.
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In the post-World War II era, Native American family life continued to be seen as a barrier to solving the Indian problem by policy makers.
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After these many years of struggle, our People are relieved that agreement finally has been reached between the U.S. government, tribal and conservation partner organizations, and the leaseholder—Solenex, LLC—to retire the last Badger-Two Medicine oil and gas lease.
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Ramona Bennett, the Puyallup elder who for nearly 60 years has been a leader of the Native rights movement in the Pacific Northwest, was listed last week in Forbes Magazine’s list of the 50 most impactful women over 50.
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