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National walk to free Leonard Peltier kicks off in Minneapolis

September 2, 2022 Darren Thompson

MINNEAPOLIS—The American Indian Movement (AIM) Grand Governing Council hosted a rally yesterday in Cedar Field Park to kick off a 15-week national walk demanding the release of Leonard Peltier. The “Walk to Justice: Free Leonard […]

Leonard Peltier shares his Indian boarding school story

June 3, 2022 Leonard Peltier

Editor’s Note: This first-person account from Leonard Peltier about his experiences at the Wahpeton Indian School from 1952 to 1955 was sent to Native News Online by one of his longtime advisers. Its authenticity was confirmed […]

Wet’suwet’en protesters face surveillance and harassment

April 21, 2022 Anish R M

As the Indigenous anti-pipeline resistance against the Coastal GasLink (CGL) continues in the Wet’suwet’en lands in Canada, the police have been intimidating the protesters and residents of the land and conducting surveillance. On Monday, April […]

American Indian Movement leader dies at 85

January 15, 2022 Carina Dominguez

The co-founder of the American Indian Movement and longtime leader in the fight for Native civil rights has died. Clyde Bellecourt, White Earth Nation, died from cancer at his Minneapolis home Tuesday, his wife Peggy […]

National Day of Mourning 2021: ‘Don’t give up. We can fight!’

December 3, 2021 Mahtowin Munro

Talk given by the co-leader of United American Indians of New England at the 52nd National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Nov. 25, 2021. So much has happened in the past year. We […]

Peltier’s message of struggle: ‘We made things better for our people’

December 3, 2021 Leonard Peltier

The following message from Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier was read at the 52nd National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Nov. 25, 2021. For more information about his case, visit WhoIsLeonardPeltier.info. Greetings relatives, […]

National Day of Mourning 2021 – PDF

October 31, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha

From the pages of Struggle ★ La Lucha. Get the PDF here 8.5 x 11 flyer or 11 x 17 brochure

Shinnecock people fight for land in playground of 1%

October 10, 2021 Zola Fish

Before Europeans arrived, the Shinnecock people occupied a 146-mile ancestral territory, which included oceanfront, bays, sounds, marshes, creeks, salt meadows, forests and grasslands, in what is now called Long Island, N.Y. The Shinnecock world began […]

So long, Columbus: Boston proclaims Indigenous Peoples Day

October 8, 2021 United American Indians of New England

Oct. 6 — The Acting Mayor of Boston, Kim Janey, has today signed an Executive Order declaring that the second Monday in October will be Indigenous Peoples Day in the City of Boston, replacing Columbus […]

Abuse of Indigenous children demands reparations, sovereignty

October 5, 2021 Mahtowin Munro

From a talk given at an Orange Shirt Day 2021 commemoration in Boston on Sept. 30. Orange Shirt Day has been commemorated in Canada since 2013, to honor the survivors and remember the children who […]