Tag: indigenous rights
Why Indigenous hunting is essential to forest sustainability
Hunting has a bad reputation and is rarely considered in forest governance and conservation strategies. But what if, instead, we tried to learn from it?
Nebraska Supreme Court upholds law that ignores landowners’ property rights, Indigenous...
Despite the flawed state decision, three federal lawsuit challenges to pipeline project continue to proceed.
Arctic word games or Indigenous survival?
Indigenous leaders call climate change an urgent threat that requires a global response (an idea that was trashed by the Trump administration).
These Indigenous women are reclaiming stolen land in the Bay Area
“We want to be able to figure out how to give the land back to Indigenous people.”
In the search for missing women, neighbors and family members pair...
Often, Indigenous communities don’t trust that police will act on reports of violence.
An international court is investigating the US and UK’s mass expulsion...
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.
Indigenous peoples control one-quarter of world’s land surface, two-thirds of that...
“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."
How indigenous knowledge is transforming the March for Science
“Indigenous peoples were always scientists. Their lives depended on it."
Stepping forward to lead on Indigenous rights
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.
‘Medicare for all’ would fully fund Indian health for first time
Either Medicare or Medicaid: This is what full funding looks like. And a Treaty Right fulfilled. Finally.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.