Indigenous peoples

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Indigenous peoples

More solidarity needed to push back Canadian attack on Wet’suwet’en lands

January 18, 2019 M. Tiahui
Fourteen people were arrested on Jan. 7 on the Gidimt’en clan territory that is within the homeland of the Wet’suwet’en Nation in what is called “British Columbia” by the Canadian settlers. Elders were at the […]
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Indigenous peoples

The impact on Indigenous Peoples of Trump’s government shutdown and border wall obsession

January 11, 2019 M. Tiahui
The U.S. federal government’s partial shutdown that began in December has resulted in 800,000 federal employees furloughed or working without pay. About a quarter of the federal government is without spending authorization from Congress. Millions […]
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Indigenous peoples

Solidarity with Unist’ot’en Camp. ‘No pipeline on Indigenous land!’

January 10, 2019 Greg Butterfield
New York City — A picket line outside the Canadian Consulate near busy Grand Central Station on Jan. 8 protested the attack by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian military on the Gidum […]
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Indigenous peoples

Mapuche resistance in Chile intensifies in response to police killing

January 4, 2019 M. Tiahui
The November assassination of a young Mapuche man, Camilo Catrillanca, by a Chilean anti-terrorism police squad has intensified the centuries-old Mapuche Indigenous struggle and has brought thousands of Mapuche and Chilean allies out into the […]
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Indigenous peoples

Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls & two-spirit people

December 8, 2018 M. Tiahui
Across Canada and the U.S., Indigenous women can often be seen at marches wearing red shawls or scarves, sometimes holding red dresses aloft. Indigenous people have formed dozens of organizations and organized walks and marches […]