Tag: native lands

“In the context of our climate emergency, when Indigenous peoples stand against pipelines, we are not only standing up to protect our land rights, we are also standing up for everyone on the planet and future generations that come after us.”

Indigenous activists say the influx of male workers in Native communities has corresponded with a spike in the kidnapping and murder of indigenous women.

The upcoming months promise intense new fronts of conflict as tribal nations are united as never before and taking action.

Florida’s Miccosukee is the first tribe allowed to run its own school, where students fully participate in family and cultural activities.

‘We are probably going to have to resist one pipeline at a time for many decades to come, and maybe longer,’ a Cherokee researcher tells MintPress as a Ramapough Lunaape chief says, ‘We need help now.’