indigenous community

12 posts

Miami’s last sacred spring faces bulldozers as community fights to save the Well of Ancient Mysteries

Tucked behind skyscrapers, a lush quarter-acre site with Indigenous, ecological, and archaeological significance is at risk of destruction. Locals, spiritual leaders, and preservationists rally to protect the spring-fed sanctuary

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8 Min
By: Kat Grimmett

From genocide to activism: The Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe’s battle for land and justice

The chairman of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas discusses the similarities between the first colonizers and today’s oil and gas companies

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5 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Miccosukee Tribe of Florida signs landmark co-stewardship with National Parks while awaiting wilderness designation decision

Under the agreement with Everglades National Park, the tribe will actively participate in wildland fire management, water resource management, and hydrological management

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2 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Miccosukee leaders fight against Big Cypress National Preserve’s wilderness designation

The National Park Service is proposing to designate 200,000 acres of Big Cypress National Preserve as wilderness. The designation would sever Indigenous tribes’, namely the Miccosukee’s, access to the area, which has been their ancestral lands for centuries—much like what happened when most of Everglades National Park

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4 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Indigenous and queer allies mourn the death of Nex Benedict, call for solidarity

Indigenous and queer allies in Oklahoma are calling for solidarity and a stop to queerphobic policies following the tragic death of a gender-expansive teen. On Feb. 7, Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old nonbinary Chahta (Choctaw) from Owasso, Oklahoma, was attacked in the girl’s bathroom at Owasso High School (OHS). They

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3 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Miami approves historical designation for Tequesta site, but building will still be developed

“We keep asking you to leave our ancestors in the ground, leave our artifacts in the ground,” one Indigenous advocate said

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4 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

‘We say return the land to make it right’ 

In this Q&A with Prism, NDN Collective CEO Nick Tilsen discusses the “liberation framework” of the LANDBACK movement and his organization’s first foray into the world of podcasting

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12 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

BIPOC LGBTQIA+ communities deserve care for eating disorders

Activists, researchers, and theorists weigh in on this pressing issue

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9 Min
By: Krystal Kavita Jagoo

Industrialized water containment projects ignore the needs of Indigenous communities

In this Q&A “A Prayer for Salmon” co-host Lyla June Johnston explains how raising the Shasta Dam will impact the Winnemem Wintu people

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9 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

How redistricting in New Mexico undermined Indigenous voting rights

Voter suppression in Farmington tracks back to a long history of violence and discrimination

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6 Min
By: Jordan Oglesby, Aidan Graybill

Recent abortion bans highlight the continued barriers to reproductive justice for Indigenous people

Mainstream reproductive justice and rights movements continuously leave out Indigenous perspectives and voices

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6 Min
By: Luna Reyna

Activists claim hate crime legislation isn’t the best way to combat racist violence

Shared histories of police violence spark Asian American and LGBTQ+ groups to call for more community-focused solutions to anti-Asian attacks.

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6 Min
By: Jenn Fang

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