Indigenous peoples

It’s Autumn, and I can’t wait for the Fall (of Columbus)
I write this in October, in the midst of all of the fall celebrations in the U.S. — Columbus Day, ...
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, is Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the U.S. In 1977, Indigenous leaders from around the world organized ...
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A Native view of immigration
The following talk was given by Mahtowin Munro, a member of the Lakota Nation and co-leader of United American Indians ...
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We are Mauna Kea!
Kanaka Maoli — Native Hawai’ians — are engaged in a historic fight to protect their sacred Mauna Kea and stop ...
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From Mauna Kea to Okinawa, ‘U.S. imperialism harms our lands, waters and bodies’
On July 17, at least 33 Indigenous Hawai’ian elders and others were arrested while defending the Mauna Kea volcano from ...
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Message from Leonard Peltier: ‘Remember the people who stood up and fought
On June 26, 1975, the FBI raided the Jumping Bull compound at Pine Ridge Reservation in Oglala, S.D. Native American ...
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Celebrating Two-Spirit Pride — for thousands of years!
Perhaps you have heard the term “Two Spirit” used along with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other terms. If you ...
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Stop cruel and unusual punishment, support Leonard Peltier
New York — On April 28, Lenny Foster, a longtime American Indian Movement activist and former director of the Navajo ...
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Four die at Pine Ridge reservation while federal government ignores pleas for flood aid
This spring, extreme weather devastated reservations in several Midwest states. Pine Ridge, Rosebud, Cheyenne River, Ponca, Standing Rock and several ...
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Guatemalan speaker calls for left solidarity with Indigenous communities
On March 28, renowned Guatemalan anthropologist and activist Rigoberto Quemé Chay finished a series of lectures in the Los Angeles ...
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