Tag: indigenous rights

Indigenous values helped shape American democracy, and now they’re helping increase Native representation.

Native tribes are reliant on their local water sources, which have been continuously exploited and contaminated by the U.S. government and non-Native people. Indigenous groups are finding new ways to demand justice.

The country’s Supreme Court has agreed to review the process around a past case that cancelled the demarcation of an Indigenous territory claimed by the Guarani Kaiowá people.

"This is a critical step towards righting the wrongs of the past and setting our nation on a path of environmental, climate, and social justice."

““No more broken promises, no more broken Treaties.”

“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.”

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.

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

The Canadian government said Sunday it hoped to resolve the tension through dialogue.