Tag: indigenous rights

“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.

The killings of land defenders are growing and spreading.

Global climate change affects everyone. But for many indigenous peoples, natural resources are closely linked to religious beliefs and practices.

Activists should draw out the connections between local struggles like #NoDAPL and the broader global climate justice movement.

As Canadians celebrate 150 years of nationhood it seems that the ongoing suffering of the country’s original inhabitants is once again mostly absent from the stories we tell about ourselves.