Tag: indigenous people

“Public lands are stolen lands,” asserted Red Nation. “Indigenous people have the right to practice their culture and spiritual ways on Indigenous land without fear of repression, discrimination, or violence.”

Water protectors in Minnesota are kicking off what could be the climate movement's next massive, sustained direct action campaign.

"Clean water and unpolluted land capable of providing sustenance is essential to our survival... [and] Line 3 poses an existential threat to our well-being."

As a leader of Sovereignty Camp 2020, Shinnecock attorney Tela Troge discusses why they are protesting a lawsuit by New York state.

United States Border Patrol agents and Arizona law enforcement officials violently repressed a peaceful action held Monday morning by roughly 30 land and water protectors.

As Indigenous peoples the world over continue to defend ancestral lands, Indigenous Peoples Day can have important meaning, more than just the renaming of a national holiday.

As more cities and states consider marking Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day, one Native American scholar aims to set the record straight on where the movement began.

American conservationists have said and done terribly racist things over the years. Now is the opportunity to center justice.

Keeping forests standing is one of the most effective and important ways to keep the world below dangerous levels of warming.

"Land and environmental defenders play a vital role in protecting these climate-critical forests and ecosystems."