Indigenous Peoples

The Counter-Revolution Of Capital

September 9, 2026 Nick Estes, Counter Punch. Educate! American genocide, Capitalism, Counter-revolution, Indigenous Peoples, Slavery

This past July, the United States celebrated the 250th anniversary since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. This issue of The Pen is My Machete brings together anti-imperialist perspectives on the meaning of that founding for the rest of the world and the world’s first nation born entirely as a capitalist state. Historian Gerald Horne has convincingly argued that the 1776 American Revolution was, in fact, a counter-revolution—one that locked down and expanded the plantation economy and delayed the abolition of African slavery in North America (and perhaps the emancipation of the earth from capital) for nearly a century.

A Mission To Create Bioregional Learning Centers

September 3, 2026 Joe Brewer, Resilience. Organize! Bioregional Centers, Indigenous Peoples, Mississippi River, Sustainability

Our learning journey in the Design School kicked off just as the pilgrimage was coming to an end. I wrote about it here. We hosted a webinar to share how we will embark on two more pilgrimages in September and October, launch a global community of practice called the BLC Action Network in January, and offer the pathway to join with our first Bioregional Design Certificate course that begins in November. All of this is part of our pathway to seed at least 1000 bioregional learning centers into being by the year 2035. It is the enactment of our Dandelion Strategy. And we are giving ourselves time to feel what emerged within our bodies as we traveled throughout the Mississippi Basin.

The Clean Energy Transition’s Indigenous Sacrifice Zones

May 30, 2026 John Ahni Schertow, Intercontinental Cry. Educate! Extraction, Green Transition, Indigenous Peoples, Sacrifice Zones

It has become abundantly clear that the clean energy transition is “business as usual” for Indigenous Peoples. At least a dozen major cases have emerged where Indigenous rights are being overtly dismissed in order to secure supplies of lithium, nickel, copper, cobalt and other strategic minerals. The unprecedented demand is reshaping landscapes and economies across the globe. New mines, processing facilities, transmission corridors and renewable energy projects are being fast-tracked, often with promises of sustainable development and a greener, more ‘just’ future.

‘Economic Reconciliation’ Means Faster Approval For Extractive Projects

May 26, 2026 Taylor Noakes, DeSmog. Educate! Canada, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Indigenous Peoples, Mining

Corporate Canada insists that partnering with First Nations on new natural resources projects will bring prosperity to Indigenous communities and address the country’s long history of colonialism. But there is also a simpler and more transactional reason that companies have for years embraced the idea of so-called “economic reconciliation”. When a natural resources project is able to bring on an Indigenous partner, it speeds up approval times and reduces political and regulatory risk. That’s according to representatives of mining and fossil fuel companies who spoke candidly about the economic benefits of Indigenous partnerships during a recent economic reconciliation conference in Ottawa.

Trump’s Plan To Reopen Alcatraz Prison Is Inhumane

May 2, 2026 Victoria Valenzuela, Scheer Post. Resist! Alcatraz, Indigenous Peoples, Prisons, Sacred Site, Trump Administration

Morning Star Gali grew up going to Indigenous Peoples’ Day and Thanksgiving sunrise gatherings on Alcatraz Island to pay homage to the site as a symbol of Native American survival and resistance. Participants would board boats to the island, just offshore from San Francisco, as early as 4 a.m., form a circle of up to 5,000 people, open with land acknowledgment from Ohlone leaders, and celebrate with traditional songs, dancing, and solidarity statements from speakers around the world. But from 1934 to 1963, Alcatraz was the site of a notorious federal maximum security prison known for isolation and punishment.

Indigenous Land Defenders Are Being Killed; AI Is Scraping Their Knowledge

April 27, 2026 Michael Cugley, People's World. Strategize! Artificial Intelligence (AI), Assassinations, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Peoples, United Nations

Indigenous land defenders are being killed and criminalized at alarming rates, AI systems scrape traditional knowledge without consent, while Indigenous women face escalating rates of violence — crises that Indigenous leaders confronted this week at the United Nations, where they warned that the fight for health and sovereignty now extends from traditional territories into digital spaces. Those warnings came during the 25th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, or UNPFII, where the overarching theme “ensuring Indigenous peoples’ health in the context of conflict” resonated with participants from around the world.

March 22 Elections And Lessons From Bolivia

March 21, 2026 Cindy Forster, Resumen English. Educate! Bolivia, Elections, Indigenous Peoples, Lawfare, Neoliberalism

Bolivia’s capitalist elites are losing their grip this week in their efforts to crush socialist candidates in “sub-national” elections to be held on March 20. Socialists, most of them Indigenous and campesino, have been elected in assemblies to run as candidates at all levels of local government. The rightwing is terrified of competing with the poor in elections, and to avoid that eventuality, it is illegitimately disqualifying leftist candidates and their parties. The twentieth-century oligarchy won the presidency last November in exactly this fashion, via illicit court rulings.

Recentering Debate Over ‘Greenland’ Means Calling It Kalaallit Nunaat

January 22, 2026 Jim Naureckas, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Educate! Greenland, Imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, United States

In a rare example of treating the Inuit of Kalaallit Nunaat as real people rather than pieces in a board game, then New York Times (1/14/26) sent two reporters to the island’s capital of Nuuk to ask them what they thought. The Times‘ Jeffrey Gettleman and Maya Tekeli found next to no interest in becoming part of the United States; sources told them they were well aware of the United States’ record of mistreating its Indigenous residents, and further that they had little interest in trading Danish socialized medicine for America’s profit-based healthcare. “We’re not stupid,” the article summed up the Inuit’s message to Trump.

Greenland’s Indigenous Inuit Hit Back At Trump

January 11, 2026 Anna Caldwell, Independent. Resist! Greenland, Indigenous Peoples, Sovereignty, Trump Administration

Indigenous people in Greenland have condemned the United States’ threat to seize the self-governing Danish territory, with many saying they want independence from both countries. Donald Trump has doubled down on his desire to take the island, telling reporters on Friday the U.S. would “do something with Greenland whether they like it or not”. The Trump administration has repeatedly refused to rule out military force, with the idea of $100,000 payments to Greenlanders who agree to join the U.S. also reportedly being considered.

The Lie We Keep Telling About Wounded Knee

December 29, 2025 Levi Rickert, Native News Online. Educate! History, Indigenous Peoples, Massacre, Wounded Knee

Today marks the 135th anniversary of the Massacre of Wounded Knee, which occurred during the wintry week between Christmas and New Year’s in 1890. Nine days before the massacre that left hundreds of Sioux men, women and children dead, an obscure weekly newspaper in South Dakota published an editorial following the death of Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull. In the opinion piece, L. Frank Baum, publisher of the Saturday Pioneer, wrote: “The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians. Why not annihilation? Their glory has fled.”

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.

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