Indigenous Rights

Indigenous Land Is At The Center Of Nevada’s Lithium Boom

May 21, 2026 John Ahni Schertow, Intercontinental Cry. Educate! Green Energy Transition, Indigenous Rights, Mining, Nevada

Amnesty International says the growing lithium mining industry in Nevada is violating the rights of Indigenous Peoples. A report released Tuesday argues that federal agencies and mining companies are fast-tracking mining projects without obtaining the free, prior and informed consent of affected communities. The report, titled “We’re Here to Protect Mother Earth: Indigenous Rights and Nevada’s Lithium Boom,” examines three major lithium projects across the state: the Thacker Pass lithium mine, the Nevada North Lithium Project and the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium Project.

UC Is Finalizing Its Land-Use Rules Without Involving Impacted Tribes

May 19, 2026 Petala Ironcloud, Truthout. Educate! California, Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Stewardship, Land Rights, University of California

The University of California (UC) is circulating its first-ever systemwide framework governing tribal access, co-stewardship, and land-use agreements across 80,000 acres of UC-managed land. The framework was developed by UC Tribal Lands Workgroup, composed entirely of UC staff with no Tribal government representatives, and Tribal advisory bodies were only invited to review the document after it was drafted. Faculty senate divisions and systemwide committees have until May 19 to submit feedback, with the Academic Council taking up the report in its May 27 meeting.

Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal To Hear Evidence On Canada’s Residential School Legacy

May 11, 2026 John Ahni Schertow, Intercontinental Cry. Resist! Canada, History, Indigenous Communities, Indigenous Rights, Montreal, People's Tribunal, Residential Schools

An international people’s tribunal examining Canada’s role in the deaths and disappearances of Indigenous children in residential schools will convene in Montreal later this month, bringing together survivors, legal experts and advocates in what they describe as a push for accountability beyond Canada’s existing reconciliation process. The hearings, organized under the auspices of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, are scheduled for May 25-29 at the Daphne Art Centre in Montreal. The tribunal will hear testimony related to missing Indigenous children, unmarked graves and the long-term impacts of the residential school system on Indigenous communities across Canada.

Major Indigenous Protest In Brazil Targets Belo Sun Gold Mine Project

April 12, 2026 Amazon Watch, Intercontinental Cry. Resist! Amazon Rainforest, Brazil, Indigenous Rights, Mining

Brasilia, Brazil – Thousands of Indigenous people marched in Brazil’s capital yesterday, during the second day of the 2026 Free Land Camp (ATL), the country’s largest Indigenous mobilization, to denounce land rights violations driven by large-scale mining, agribusiness, and logging projects. Leaders from the Xingu River condemned the Canadian company Belo Sun’s proposed Volta Grande mega-mine as emblematic of the current assault on Indigenous territorial rights and the failure to consult communities threatened by industrial projects.

Indigenous Leaders Sue Quebec To Halt Forestry Permits

February 23, 2026 John Ahni Schertow, Intercontinental Cry. Resist! Canada, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Logging, Quebec, Sovereignty

After years of protests and blockades, a group of Atikamekw elders and chiefs have filed a lawsuit seeking to cancel forestry permits across a vast stretch of northern Quebec. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Quebec’s Superior Court, challenges the province’s authority to issue forestry permits within Nehirowisiw Aski, the ancestral territory of the Atikamekw, without properly consulting them. Lawyers for the group describe the case as unprecedented, saying it is the first time that land defenders — a traditional role not formally recognized in Canadian law — have directly asserted Aboriginal title through the courts.

First Nations Oppose Proposed Changes To Indigenous Rights Law

February 12, 2026 John Ahni Schertow, Intercontinental Cry. Resist! British Columbia, Canada, Declaration on Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Rights

More than 100 First Nations leaders and Indigenous organizations from across British Columbia have united in vocal opposition to proposed changes to the provincial Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), calling on Premier David Eby to uphold the law as it was originally co-developed with Indigenous communities in 2019. In a joint statement, the alliance warned that the government’s proposed amendments could erode hard-won progress on reconciliation and lead to increased conflict and litigation. The statement urges B.C.’s political leaders to uphold the original intent of the act and maintain the shared framework of cooperation between First Nations and the government.

70,000 People March In Belém For Climate Justice

November 16, 2025 Mariana Castro, People's Dispatch. Resist! Brazil, Climate Justice, COP30, Indigenous Communities, Indigenous Rights, People's Summit for Climate Justice

The streets of Belém were occupied, according to organizers, by more than 70,000 people on Saturday, November 15, for the historic Global Climate March. Unlike the official COP30 spaces, the march brought together the diversity of peoples and demands from civil society in defense of climate justice. With the force of the motto “We are the answer”, the tens of thousands of members of people’s movements held signs such as “Agribusiness is fire”, “There is no climate justice without popular agrarian reform” and “environmental collapse is capitalist”.

A Conversation With Leonard Peltier On His 81st Birthday

September 13, 2025 Levi Rickert, Native News Online. Educate! colonization, Indigenous Rights, Leonard Peltier, Racism

Tune in to Native Bidaské as Native News Online editor Levi Rickert talks with Leonard Peltier (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians) who is celebrating his 81st birthday today. Released a federal prison this past February after almost five decades, it is his first birthday away from prison. In 1977, he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive life terms for the deaths of two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota — a case that has since become one of the most controversial in American legal history. On his last day in office, President Joe Biden granted Peltier a presidential commutation. Peltier was released on February 18 from a federal prison in Florida and flown to North Dakota. He is confined to his home on the Turtle Mountain Reservation.

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.

Indigenous Stewardship Is The Ignored Climate Solution

August 27, 2025 Robert Muggah, Intercontinental Cry. Create! Brazil, Canada, climate crisis, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Stewardship

As the world stumbles toward climate tipping points, a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that among the most powerful defenders of nature are not satellites or carbon markets, but people – Indigenous peoples. From the rainforests of the Amazon to the boreal forests of Canada, Indigenous stewardship may be one of the most high-impact and cost-effective strategies to mitigate climate change, preserve biodiversity, and disrupt environmental crimes. Indigenous peoples occupy, use, or manage over a quarter of the Earth’s surface, including many of its most ecologically intact regions. These territories often overlap with areas of high carbon density and biodiversity richness.

It’s Time To Join The Fight Against ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

July 21, 2025 Levi Rickert, Native News Online. Resist! Alligator Alcatraz, Immigrant Rights, Immigrant Solidarity, Indigenous Rights

The Miccosukee Tribe has lived in Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve since time immemorial. Today, 640 tribal members still call the Everglades home. Their ancestral home now has an unwanted neighbor: a massive immigrant detention center that sits less than 1,000 feet from Miccosukee villages. It was hurriedly built by the state with encouragement and promised funding from the Trump administration. Both ignored a basic requirement — consulting the tribe about building on their ancestral land. This isn't the first time officials have planned grandiose development in the Everglades without consulting the tribe.

20 Major Wins For Indigenous Rights In 2025

June 15, 2025 John Ahni Schertow, Intercontinental Cry. Create! Amazon Rainforest, Colombia, Ecuador, Environment, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Landback, Landback Movement, Victoria Nuland, Victory

So far, 2025 has been a powerful year for Indigenous rights. Over the past 6 months we have seen many hard-fought victories and long-awaited acts of justice for Indigenous Peoples across the globe. While these wins vary in scale and geography, a common thread runs through them all: Indigenous leadership. Whether resisting oil drilling in the Peruvian Amazon, overturning mining projects in Arizona, or securing court protections for uncontacted peoples in Colombia and Ecuador, these movements reflect a resurgence of Indigenous authority in matters that directly affect their survival and future.

Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Tribes To Restore Salmon

June 15, 2025 Tony Schick, Pro Publica. Educate! Biden administration, Dam Removal, Dams, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Joe Biden, Salmon, Trump Administration

Less than two years ago, the administration of President Joe Biden announced what tribal leaders hailed as an unprecedented commitment to the Native tribes whose ways of life had been devastated by federal dam-building along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. The deal, which took two years to negotiate, halted decades of lawsuits over the harm federal dams had caused to the salmon that had sustained those tribes culturally and economically for thousands of years. To enable the removal of four hydroelectric dams considered especially harmful to salmon, the government promised to invest billions of dollars in alternative energy sources to be created by the tribes.

The Oceti Sakowin Fight To Protect A Key Sacred Site In South Dakota

June 10, 2025 John Ahni Schertow, Intercontinental Cry. Resist! Great Sioux Nation, Indigenous Rights, Mining, Oceti Sakowin, Sacred sites

The Oceti Sakowin, also known as the Great Sioux Nation, are actively opposing a proposed exploratory drilling project on lands adjacent to the sacred site of Pe’sla in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The campaign is one of many Indigenous efforts around the world that seek to defend and reclaim ancestral lands from the extractive industry. A high-elevation meadow also known as Reynolds Prairie, Pe’sla is of deep spiritual importance to the Lakota, Nakota, and Dakota tribes, which have used it for ceremonial gatherings for thousands of years. According to Lakota oral traditions, Pe’Sla is the site of creation, “a bald spot among the pine-treed hills…where the Morning Star came down to help the people”.

Yurok Tribe Acquires 47,000 Acres In California’s Largest Land-Back Deal

June 9, 2025 Chez Oxendine, Tribal Business News. Create! California, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Land Back, Salmon

The Yurok Tribe has gained control and stewardship of 73 square miles of land along the Klamath River in a $56 million transfer — the largest land-back deal in California’s history. The tribe announced on June 5 it had completed the final phase of the land-transfer partnership with Portland, Ore.-based nonprofit Western Rivers Conservancy, a process that began in 2022. With the land under their control, the Yurok have designated 15,000 acres of the 47,097-acre property as the Blue Creek Salmon Sanctuary and established the remainder as the Yurok Community Forest. “The impact of this project is enormous,” Joseph L. James, chairman of the Yurok Tribe, said in a statement. “We are forging a sustainable future for the fish, forests and our people that honors both ecological integrity and our cultural heritage.”

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