Tag: indigenous rights

Indigenous leaders call climate change an urgent threat that requires a global response (an idea that was trashed by the Trump administration).

“We want to be able to figure out how to give the land back to Indigenous people.”

Often, Indigenous communities don’t trust that police will act on reports of violence.

Long ignored by the media, the people of Chagos struggle relentlessly to reclaim islands that the U.S. and U.K. stole for a military base.

“What these new maps show us is that understanding Indigenous perspectives and Indigenous contributions to conservation are essential when negotiating local or global conservation agreements."

“Indigenous peoples were always scientists. Their lives depended on it."

Indigenous women will not sit idly by while their rights to their lands are violated—the lands that sustain them and are part of who they are as Indigenous Peoples.

Either Medicare or Medicaid: This is what full funding looks like. And a Treaty Right fulfilled. Finally.

In the Midwest, Native resistance is gearing up for the next challenge.

My gratitude goes out to the millions of Americans who launched a resistance that has slowed or stopped many of Trump’s policies.