Indigenous peoples

Message to National Day of Mourning 2020 from Leonard Peltier

November 29, 2020 Leonard Peltier

Greetings my relatives, friends, loved ones, and supporters. First of all, I want to thank you for the privilege of being allowed to express my feelings about this “Day of Mourning” as we call it, […]

National Day of Mourning livestream

November 26, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha

For everyone who won’t be in Plymouth, the livestream and pre-recorded content for the National Day of Mourning on November 26 will run starting at approximately 12 noon EST via these sites: the United American Indians […]

Indigenous student leader: ‘The racism we’ve faced has been intense’

November 12, 2020 Greg Butterfield

November is Native American Heritage Month. Struggle-La Lucha spoke with Kisha James, president of the Wellesley College Native American Student Association and an activist with the Massachusetts Indigenous Peoples Day campaign. Struggle-La Lucha: Kisha, can […]

Indigenous Peoples Day demonstration at Malcolm X Park in Washington

October 22, 2020 Lev Koufax

On Oct. 17, a coalition of Indigenous peoples and their allies held an Indigenous Peoples Day demonstration at Malcolm X Park in Washington, D.C. The host organizations and activists included Chief Billy Tyac of the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]