Indigenous peoples
Leonard Peltier’s Walk to Justice in Wisconsin
Walkers in Eau Claire, Wis., after a pipe ceremony. From “Leonard Peltier’s Walk to Justice” on Facebook
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National walk to free Leonard Peltier kicks off in Minneapolis
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 […]
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Leonard Peltier shares his Indian boarding school story
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 […]
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Wet’suwet’en protesters face surveillance and harassment
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 […]
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American Indian Movement leader dies at 85
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 […]
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National Day of Mourning 2021: ‘Don’t give up. We can fight!’
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 […]
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Peltier’s message of struggle: ‘We made things better for our people’
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, […]
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National Day of Mourning 2021 – PDF
From the pages of Struggle ★ La Lucha. Get the PDF here 8.5 x 11 flyer or 11 x 17 brochure
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Shinnecock people fight for land in playground of 1%
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 […]
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So long, Columbus: Boston proclaims Indigenous Peoples Day
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 […]