Tag: Native Americans
Native Americans on police response to Capitol insurrection
“No way would Black or Brown people be treated that way had they attacked a symbol of our democracy.”
Native leadership for the US Department of the Interior
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez called it a “truly a historic and unprecedented day for all Indigenous people.”
Winona LaDuke: Deb Haaland’s nomination for Interior Sec. is ‘important step’...
Haaland’s nomination was backed by progressives, as well as more than 120 tribal leaders, who sent a letter to Biden last month urging him to select her for the post.
Minnesota Permits for Line 3 Pipeline approved. Indigenous and Climate Leaders...
Environmental and Indigenous groups say this construction threatens the water where Native Americans harvest wild rice and also would be a factor in increasing climate change.
Native Americans protesting Trump border wall tear gassed, arrested by US...
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.
Tribes and environmental groups sue Trump administration to preserve clean water...
The administration’s latest attempt to undermine the Clean Water Act would jeopardize tribal and state rights to protect their water quality
Federal judge orders Trump admin to give Native Americans their withheld...
“It is unconscionable that it has taken court action to force this administration to distribute relief to Tribal governments as Congress intended and the law requires.”
Drilling on public lands: Native American voices frustrated by virtual public...
“How many North Slope members have access to WiFi? That's what I want to know. How many of them know that this webinar is going on?”
Body bags instead of requested COVID-19 testing kits for Native American...
“Are we going to keep getting body bags or are we going to get what we actually need?”
Native American voters get boost in North Dakota
After a lengthy legal fight, state and tribal officials reach settlement over ID law
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
The environmental and social impacts of fish farming and industrial aquaculture
Often promoted as sustainable, fish farming can increase pressure on wild fisheries, deepen global food inequities, and damage marine ecosystems.