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Kumeyaay warriors march to Tecate border crossing on Indigenous Peoples Day

October 19, 2020 Zola Fish
On Indigenous Peoples Day, Oct. 12, a hundred warriors mostly from the Kumeyaay Nation marched to the Tecate border crossing in the San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan region. They were led by Bird Singers and carried signs […]
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Why the Catholic Church owes reparations to California’s Indigenous peoples

September 26, 2020 Zola Fish
On July 1, 1769, Father Junípero Serra reached the top of a bluff overlooking what is now San Diego Harbor and declared the area “San Diego” (Saint Didacus) for the Spanish colonists. Serra had a […]
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Proof Trump is desecrating our ancestors

August 23, 2020 Zola Fish
Kumeyaay ancestral burial and sacred sites desecrated to make way for a wall along the Southern border On Aug. 19, a group of Kumeyaay Natives and local activists went out into the 105-degree heat to […]
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Treaty defenders face off against Trump at Mount Rushmore

July 17, 2020 M. Tiahui
On July 3, more than a hundred Indigenous and allied land defenders stood for hours and blocked a South Dakota highway leading to Mount Rushmore in advance of a scheduled speech and rally by President […]
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Dismantle Now! Black and Indigenous solidarity march in Boston

July 17, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
On July 8, multiple Boston-area Indigenous, Black and Afro-Brazilian groups held a rally and march demanding police abolition, the immediate removal of symbols of white supremacy, and investment in the economic development and self-determination of […]
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Border wall threatens Kumeyaay Nation burial sites

July 16, 2020 Zola Fish
Members of the Kumeyaay Nation gathered in Boulevard, Calif., on June 30 to halt the building of Donald Trump’s border wall. The Army Corps of Engineers has been using dynamite to blast an existing wall […]
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‘Historic day’ for Standing Rock as pipeline company told to shut down, remove oil

July 14, 2020 Kolby KickingWoman
Updated: Another blow for pipelines: The U.S. Supreme Court has kept in place a lower court ruling that blocked a key permit for the Keystone XL Kolby KickingWoman Indian Country Today A federal judge has […]
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Set Leonard Peltier free now

April 27, 2020 Levi Rickert
Levi Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation) is the publisher and editor of Native News Online. Often during powwows and other Indigenous gatherings, it is common to hear elders pray for those who are incarcerated. Elders […]
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Trump regime threatens Mashpee Wampanoag land

March 29, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, also known as the People of the First Light, has inhabited present-day Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island for more than 12,000 years. After an arduous process lasting more than three decades, […]
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Palestinian Youth Movement stands with Wet’suwet’en

February 26, 2020 Palestinian Youth Movement
On Feb. 6, 2020, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) invaded Wet’suwet’en land, armed with snipers, and forcibly removed land defenders while they were mid-ceremony, in order to allow the Coastal GasLink pipeline to be […]