Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous Food Reciprocity As A Model For Mutual Aid

March 10, 2025 Kate Nelson, Civil Eats. Create! Food and Agriculture, Indigenous foods, Indigenous Peoples, Mutual Aid

In the Arctic and Far North, where a successful hunt can mean the difference between feeding the village or scrounging to make ends meet, one might assume a scarcity mindset would take hold. Instead, reciprocity prevails. Examples of this sharing-focused approach abound. A recent documentary, One With the Whale, follows the hunting practices of an island community in the Bering Sea. In one scene, after a long period without finding game, a hunting crew harpoons a seal, which will allow them to feed some of the community. “It’s always a blessing to receive any animal that you catch,” Siberian Yupik hunter Daniel Apassingok tells the filmmakers. “As small as the game is, the game is dispersed with four or five other boats."

Navajo Citizens Face Identity Challenges During Deportation Raids

January 29, 2025 Levi Rickert, Sovereignty. Resist! ICE, ICE Raids, Immigration, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Trump Administration

The Trump administration’s intensified deportation efforts have created unexpected challenges for Navajo citizens living in urban areas like Phoenix. As the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began widespread raids in major cities across the country following the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, concerns have surfaced about Native Americans being mistaken for undocumented immigrants. On Friday, Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren addressed these concerns during a broadcast on the tribal radio station KTNN.

International Anti-Fascist Festival In Venezuela Ends With Resolution

January 13, 2025 Ultimas Noticias, Orinoco Tribune. Organize! Anti-fascism, Class Struggle, Fascism, Global South, Imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, Self-Determination, Social Movements, Solidarity, Venezuela

The International Anti-Fascist World Festival For a New World, held in Caracas, Venezuela, in which more than 2,000 delegates from 125 countries participated, came to an end. At the closing ceremony of the festival, on Saturday, January 11, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro thanked the participants for attending the festival and pointed out that the proposals that have emerged demonstrate the vitality that this movement is gaining. “On behalf of all Venezuela, I thank you for coming to this unprecedented event,” said President Maduro, adding that “we are at peace, in democracy, in full exercise of our national sovereignty, and the people are moving forward in this new stage.”

Indigenous Runners Complete Journey For Mother Earth And Solidarity

December 31, 2024 Natasha Pentin, Mongabay Environmental News. Create! Colombia, Indigenous Peoples, Journey, Mother Earth, Solidarity

Silvania, Colombia — On a warm but overcast afternoon, hundreds of Indigenous representatives and spiritual leaders gathered to witness a remarkable convergence of native nations from across the Americas. Serving as ambassadors and messengers, runners took off from Alaska and Patagonia, some covering up to 16,000 kilometers (10,000 miles) across treacherous landscapes in seven months. Along the journey, they collected sacred staffs imbued with prayers from almost 200 native nations. The runners, also known as chasquis, the name for messengers in the Inca empire, said they embarked on the journey to honor ancestral wisdom, restore balance with mother nature, strengthen the identity of Indigenous peoples, and promote global solidarity.

Remembering The Wounded Knee Massacre

December 29, 2024 Levi Rickert, Native News Online. Educate! Abraham Lincoln, History, Indigenous Peoples, Massacre, Wounded Knee

Today, we remember the one hundred and thirty-three winters ago, on December 29, 1890, when innocent Lakota men, women, and children were massacred by the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment near Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Some estimates place the death toll closer to 300, underscoring the horrific scale of this tragedy. The massacre occurred under the pretense of disarming the Lakota, who had already suffered profound losses due to U.S. policies, broken treaties, and forced relocations.

Reflecting On The Losses Of Native Students At Boarding Schools

December 27, 2024 Levi Rickert, Native News Online. Educate! Children, History, Indigenous Peoples, Residential Schools

Just days before Christmas, Sunday’s Washington Post report revealing that over 3,100 Native students died while attending Indian boarding schools cast a sobering shadow over this festive season. The article is a heartbreaking confirmation of what Indigenous communities have known and carried in silence for generations. The Washington Post report, spearheaded by Dana Hedgpeth, a citizen of the Haliwa-Saponi Tribe of North Carolina, and Sari Horwitz, an investigative reporter and author of Justice in Indian Country, highlights the critical role of the media in truth-telling.

Applying Indigenous Wisdom Traditions To Modern Challenges

December 1, 2024 David Bollier. Strategize! Capitalism, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Peoples, The Commons

I've always been fascinated by the striking affinities between commoners and Indigenous peoples, as well as their significant differences. Both are keenly aware of life as a deeply relational phenomenon -- one that Western capitalism, science, and market culture don't really understand. Both see commoning as a baseline for mindful living and presence, a process that can help transform the world in positive directions. And yet, while Western and Indigenous commoners share many values and practices, native cultures have subtle traditions and understandings that go back centuries, often millennia.

Thanksgiving Myths Aim to Silence Indigenous Voices

November 28, 2024 Johnnie Jae, Truthout. Educate! History, Indigenous History, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Resistance, National Day of Mourning, Thanksgiving

For many Americans, Thanksgiving is a time to gather with loved ones, share a meal, watch football and express gratitude. Some Native Americans celebrate Thanksgiving this way as well, because feasting is Indigenous — we also love eating and watching football. Still, the holiday carries a much heavier weight: It is a stark reminder of the violent colonization that began with the arrival of European settlers. The idyllic myths surrounding Thanksgiving align with broader strategies of historical revisionism used to justify settler colonialism by distorting and erasing histories of violence, exploitation and resistance.

Historic Investigation Of US Boarding Schools For Native Children

November 26, 2024 Niko Georgiades, Unicorn Riot. Educate! assimilation, colonization, Indigenous Peoples, Report, Residential Schools, Traumas

For the first time in its 248-year existence, the United States government investigated its own Federal Indian Boarding Schools, a genocidal element of the racist settler colonial project by which the country was formed. From the passage of the Civilization Fund Act in 1819 up until 1969, the U.S. government stole Indigenous children from their parents, and separated and killed family members as part of a broader policy to steal territory and sever the cultural, economic and spiritual ties between Indigenous peoples. Children were forced into boarding schools to assimilate to the European settlers’ way of life.

Building Global Indigenous Power Post US Elections

November 14, 2024 Janene Yazzie, NDN Collective. Resist! climate crisis, COP29, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Sovereignty

As Indigenous Peoples, organizers, and as an organization, we have been clear about the threats we face. Our Peoples are on the frontlines confronted with the worst aspects of American politics and identity; white supremacy, settler colonialism, resource exploitation, environmental destruction, forced assimilation, political violence, and an ongoing genocide. This is why at NDN Collective we will always stay committed to Defend, Develop, and Decolonize. Protecting rights, building collective power, and organizing for systemic change is our pathway to liberation.

NDN Collective Responds To President Biden’s Planned Apology

October 27, 2024 Joselyn, NDN Collective. Resist! History, Indigenous Peoples, Joe Biden, Presidential Apology, Residential Schools

While Biden’s apology is significant because it marks the first time the federal government has formally acknowledged their role in the generations of harm caused by abusive and deadly mandatory residential schools, the president’s words ring hollow without action. The pain caused by residential schools is immeasurable – all Indigenous Peoples of the U.S. and Canada are survivors of that brutal system, as it was used to collectively strip us of our languages, cultures, strong family structures, and community wellbeing. We all continue to navigate the residual impacts of such an aggressive assault on our Nations and lifeways.

The Convention On Biodiversity COP In Cali, Colombia

October 26, 2024 Global Justice Ecology Project. Resist! Amazon Rainforest, Biodiversity, Brazil, Colombia, COP16, Genetically Engineered, Indigenous Peoples, Protests

More than 100 organizations from over 30 countries demand that Brazil cancel its NINE genetically engineered eucalyptus and stop threatening global forest biodiversity. Organizations and Indigenous Peoples from around the world call upon the world leaders at COP16 to demand a strict application of the CBD’s 2008 de facto moratorium on genetically engineered trees and that Brazil immediately cancel its legalization of 9 varieties of genetically engineered eucalyptus trees for commercial release. Brazil’s legalization is a dangerous precedent that threatens to open the door to the widespread commercialization and large-scale release of GE trees across Latin America and around the world.

‘The Commune Is Nothing New Here’: The Rio Cataniapo Commune

October 22, 2024 Chris Gilbert and Cira Pascual Marquina, Venezuelanalysis. Create! Communes, Indigenous Peoples, Socialism, Venezuela

Early in the last decade a set of communities along the Cataniapo River started to organize themselves to protect the river’s ecosystem and bolster their agricultural and handicraft production. A few years later, in response to Chávez’s call to build socialist communes, 15 community councils in the area came together to form the Rio Cataniapo Commune. Today, approximately 1500 people participate in the Río Cataniapo Comune. They come from various ethnic backgrounds, but the majority identify as Indigenous and some still practice common ownership of land.

Tribal College Campuses Are Falling Apart

October 19, 2024 Matt Krupnick, ProPublica. Educate! Government Programs, Higher Education, Indigenous Peoples, Systemic Racism

In the 1970s, Congress committed to funding a higher education system controlled by Indigenous communities. These tribal colleges and universities were intended to serve students who’d been disadvantaged by the nation’s history of violence and racism toward Native Americans, including efforts to eradicate their languages and cultures. But walking through Little Big Horn College in Montana with Emerson Bull Chief, its dean of academics, showed just how far that idea has to go before becoming a reality. Bull Chief dodged signs warning “Keep out!” as he approached sheets of plastic sealing off the campus day care center. It was late April and the center and nearby cafeteria have been closed since January, when a pipe burst, flooding the building, the oldest at the 44-year-old college. The facilities remained closed into late September.

Britain Cedes Control Of Chagos Islands But Maintains Pentagon Base

October 13, 2024 Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report. Resist! Africa, African Union (AU), Asia, Britain, Chagos, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Mauritius, Southern African Development Community (SADC), US Imperialism, Western imperialism

After nearly six decades, the right to self-determination and independence is still being denied to the Indigenous people as the United States prepares for expanding imperialist wars in Asia and Africa.

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