indigenous sovereignty

17 posts

New ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ records suggest federal funding and involvement in Florida detention camp

Court filings appear to undermine DHS claims that the Everglades facility was a state project, potentially reviving a court-ordered shutdown

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6 Min
By: Ayi

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 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

Who will stop the ‘ticking time bomb’ across Native lands?

It started with a flood. A great turtle rose out of the untamable waters. Thus, in Ojibwe tradition, the world was born. The Great Lakes of Michigan are the most sacred of places for Ojibwe peoples; five bodies of interconnected freshwater lakes are the origin of all life and the

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8 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

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

‘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

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

Supreme Court rulings undermine Indian law

Indian law is a framework for making decisions about Indigenous sovereignty and peoples, but recent Supreme Court rulings create new debates despite centuries of precedents

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8 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

For the love of found family

California’s new law allows care for non-nuclear families, offering legal recognition to family structures that have always existed for queer, Black, and Indigenous people

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6 Min
By: Sherronda J. Brown

The Chinook Indian Tribe calls for restoration of federal recognition

Chinook leaders say the non-Native U.S. government’s arbitrary determinations of a tribe’s status or legitimacy is the ultimate example of white supremacy

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7 Min
By: Luna Reyna

Alaska’s sale of land for agricultural development threatens Indigenous food systems and environmental health

Advocates say that the state’s pursuit of extractive food production contributes to climate change and harms already food-insecure Native communities

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8 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Native tribe in Utah calls for a boycott of US Bank

The tribe says U.S. Bank stole over $50 million by failing to pay the tribe investment profits to which it was entitled

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5 Min
By: Ravleen Kaur

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