Indigenous Peoples

Theme From The Bottom: Post COP30 Reflections

November 26, 2025 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! climate crisis, COP30, Decolonization, Indigenous Peoples, People's Summit, White Supremacy

The first Conference of the Parties (COP) summit I attended was back in 2015, COP 21, which took place in Paris, France. At this point in my climate and environmental justice journey I was wide-eyed and perhaps even a bit naive as I believed that nation states, international bodies like the United Nations, and so-called Civil Society Organizations contained the requisite mettle and principles to take on the crisis of climate change at scale while and the root causes that maintain and exacerbate it - white “supremacy” ideology, patriarchy, and colonization - contemporaneously.

Education Dismantling Ignores Tribal Nations

November 24, 2025 Levi Rickert, Native News Online. Educate! Department of Education, Education, History, Indigenous Peoples

As Congress weighed releasing the Epstein files last week, the Trump administration quietly announced plans to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education — shifting programs that serve Native students to other agencies without consulting a single tribe. Call it what you want: a strategic distraction, a bureaucratic reshuffling or business as usual for this administration. For Indian Country, it’s a violation of federal law. Tuesday’s announcement transferred key programs that serve Native students from the Department of Education to the departments of the Interior and Labor, with additional programs reassigned to Health and Human Services and the State Department.

National Day Of Mourning

November 22, 2025 United American Indians of New England. Resist! colonization, Indigenous Peoples, National Day of Mourning, Thanksgiving

Since 1970, Indigenous people & their allies have gathered at noon on Cole's Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US Thanksgiving holiday. Many Native people do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims & other European settlers. Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands and the erasure of Native cultures. Participants in National Day of Mourning honor Indigenous ancestors and Native resilience. It is a day of remembrance and spiritual connection, as well as a protest against the racism and oppression that Indigenous people continue to experience worldwide.

COP30 Isn’t A Failure, It’s A Farce

November 22, 2025 Peter Gelderloos, In These Times. Strategize! Brazil, climate crisis, COP30, Indigenous Peoples

Belem, Brazil — As the COP30 climate summit comes to a close here in Belém, in the Brazilian state of Pará, conference organizers have little to show after two weeks of highly publicized talks. This is bad for everyone. The United Nations Climate Change Conference desperately needed to restore its reputation. After all, last year’s COP29 took place in Azerbaijan, where fossil fuels make up 90% of the exports and where the government was being accused of carrying out genocide in the months leading up to the conference. The previous year, the COP28 was held in Dubai, capital of another petrostate.

Launch Of National Campaign For Native American Heritage Month

November 13, 2025 Native News Online. Organize! History, Indigenous culture, Indigenous Peoples, Native American Heritage Month

The American Indian College Fund has launched a new campaign, You Can Do Something, in recognition of Native American Heritage Month. The effort aims to reshape how Americans understand history, power and culture — and to encourage action to honor and support Native peoples. The campaign began Nov. 1 with the release of a 30-second film, What You Pass On, featuring real Indigenous students rather than actors. Set in everyday spaces such as classrooms, football fields and history displays, the film contrasts what Americans are often taught with what is left out.

Amazonian Indigenous Peoples Protest At COP30

November 12, 2025 teleSUR English. Resist! Brazil, climate crisis, COP30, Indigenous Peoples

On Tuesday, Brazilian Indigenous leaders and activists clashed with security guards as they tried to enter the site where the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) is being held in Belem. The protesters demanded access to the hall hosting the climate summit and several of them carried banners and flags with demands for land rights, such as “Our land is not for sale.” In response, security forces at the venue attempted to block them, using tables to obstruct their entry. However, the protesters bypassed the security checkpoints and entered the lobby of the UN-run tent where the negotiations take place. At that moment, members of the national delegations were preparing to leave the venue.

Indian Country Hit First, And Harshest, Amidst Federal Shutdown

November 2, 2025 Darren Thompson, Last Real Indians. Educate! Austerity, Government Shutdown, Humanitarian Crisis, Indigenous Peoples

Like climate change, the federal government shutdown affects Indigenous communities in the country first and harsher than other communities. There are several reasons why, including that federally recognized tribes have a political relationship with the federal government that is based on the laws that founded this country. In exchange for land, the federal government made provisions—consider them as promises—to tribes and their citizens in various legal processes such as treaties, executive orders, and legislation. In exchange for land, the federal government created unique programs only available to federally recognized tribes largely in the areas of housing, education, healthcare and law enforcement.

In North Carolina, Immigrants Resist The US ‘Language Graveyard’

October 26, 2025 Anya Petrone Slepyan, In These Times. Create! Education, Indigenous Peoples, Language, North Carolina

On a Friday evening in Emma, North Carolina, an unincorporated community west of Asheville, noise echoes across the Porvenir Community Center. Young children play in one room, laughing and shouting in Spanish and English. In the next room over, around 15 adults and children talk and sing in a different language – Hñähñu, an Indigenous language from the Mezquital Valley of Central Mexico. Families sit together, leaning over textbooks and taking notes as the teacher, Abel González Bueno, writes example sentences on the whiteboard. At the end of the class, González leads his students in a traditional folk song. He says that music can be a great teacher, especially for his adult students who grew up speaking Hñähñu.

What Is An American? Ask The People Who Were Here First

September 8, 2025 Levi Rickert, Native News Online. Educate! History, Indigenous History, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights

The National Museum of the American Indian — with locations in New York City and Washington, D.C. — is one of eight Smithsonian institutions under audit in accordance with President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14253, Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History. The directive came from the White House last month in a letter to Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie G. Brunch III that demanded a full audit of content — from exhibit texts and online materials to curatorial process documents and grant records. This entire process represents an effort to sanitize history by emphasizing only the positive events while ignoring negative ones.

Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples Present Climate Demands Ahead Of COP30

August 15, 2025 John Ahni Schertowaugust, Intercontinental Cry. Resist! Brazil, climate crisis, COP30, Indigenous Peoples

In a powerful call to action ahead of the UN Climate Conference (COP30) in Belém this November, a coalition of more than 300 Indigenous peoples from across Brazil has presented a sweeping set of demands for the country’s updated climate commitments, insisting that the demarcation and protection of Indigenous territories must be formally recognized as a central pillar of Brazil’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement. The 19-page declaration, signed by the Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (APIB) and regional Indigenous federations, argues that Indigenous lands are “the last barriers to global collapse.”

Starving Indigenous Peoples Then And Now

August 13, 2025 Rosalyn R. LaPier, Consortium News. Educate! Genocide, History, Indigenous Peoples, Palestine, Starvation

There is increasing evidence that “widespread starvation, malnutrition and disease” are driving a rise in hunger-related deaths“ in Gaza, a group of United Nations and aid organizations have repeatedly warned. A July 29 alert by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a global initiative for improving food security and nutrition, reported that the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” as access to food and other essential items is dropping to an “unprecedented level.” More than 500,000 Palestinians, one-fourth of Gaza’s population, are experiencing famine, the U.N. stated. And all 320,000 children under age 5 are “at risk of acute malnutrition, with serious lifelong physical and mental health consequences.”

Cultural Values On Indigenous Lands Help Forests Thrive

May 22, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Educate! Conservation, Environment, Indigenous Peoples, Panama

In Panama, forest cover on Indigenous lands has remained stable at almost double the rate of protected areas — including government parks — due in great part to deeply-ingrained cultural values, a new study led by researchers from McGill University has found. The findings challenge a longstanding assumption about conservation: that in order to protect biodiversity, people must be kept out. “Local land use emerges from peoples’ worldviews and values regarding nature,” the authors of the findings wrote. “[D]eforestation and disturbance in Indigenous lands exhibit a low density, spatial concentration on forest edges, and temporal stability, explaining forest cover stability.

Panama’s Indigenous And Civil Movements Under Siege

May 17, 2025 John Ahni Shertow, Intercontinental Cry. Resist! Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Panama, Public Services, State Repression

A wave of protests across Panama has led to the widespread use of chemical agents, and growing calls for international oversight. The catalyst is Law 462, a recent reform to the country’s Social Security Fund. The government says the law is necessary to fix a system under financial strain. But many Panamanians see it as a threat to healthcare access and economic security—especially for workers, students, and Indigenous communities. Protesters have been organizing for weeks with teachers, unions, students, and Indigenous peoples forming a broad coalition. They argue Law 462 reflects a deeper pattern of cuts to public services and the erosion of democratic rights.

Minneapolis Plans To Return Land To Indigenous Stewardship By 2026

April 17, 2025 Darren Thompson, Last Real Indians. Create! Indigenous Peoples, Land Back, Land Rights, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN — Minneapolis city officials and community leaders announced at a press conference on Monday that the city would transfer land to Indigenous stewardship. The announcement comes after a decade of organizing by local organizations and is amongst a movement of lands being returned to Indigenous stewardship. “Owámniyomni is not only a place sacred to the Dakota, it is a place of shared importance to all who call this land home," Owámniyomni Okhódayapi President Shelley Buck said to CBS News in Minnesota on Monday. “Our vision for the land at Owámniyomni is to create a place of healing, beauty and belonging that is open to everyone — while reclaiming Dakota stewardship of this land, restoring native plantings and uplifting traditional practices in caring for our natural relatives.”

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."

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