Indigenous Women

Women On Front Lines Fighting Fracking In Bakken Oil Shale Formations

March 15, 2016 Emily Arasim and Osprey Orielle Lake, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Fracking, Indigenous Women

Emily Arasim and Osprey Orielle Lake for Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network - “The Bakken” is a shale formation that spans some 25,000 square miles and covers much of western North Dakota, eastern Montana and the southern parts of two Canadian provinces. Since the early 2000’s, a boom in oil extraction has taken place in the region thanks to newly available hydraulic fracking technologies used to extract sticky, heavy oil from deep within shale rock. In less than a decade, North Dakota has become a fracking epicenter and the second largest U.S oil-producer after Texas.

A Native Reflection On International Women’s Day

March 10, 2016 Kelly Hayes, www.transformativespaces.org Strategize! Indigenous Women, International Working Womens Day, Native Americans

By Kelly Hayes for Transformative Spaces - Today is International Women’s Day, and I expect to see a great many posts about women who have changed the world. And even though I am sure there will be an unfortunate tendency to lift up accomplished, American white women, at the expense of militant freedom fighters, trans women and Black and Brown women, I know that the people I am fortunate enough to share space with online will present me with some quality reading material that will leave me more knowledgeable by the day’s end, and I am grateful for that.

“No More Stolen Sisters”

February 19, 2016 Sarah Scott, www.us6.campaign-archive1.com Resist! Canada, First Nations, Indigenous Women

By Sarah Scott for Radical Women - “Even though the grave has silenced my granddaughter’s voice, I will continue to speak for her,” vows Renee Hess of Helyna Rivera, a Mohawk woman who was murdered in the U.S.-Canada border city of Buffalo, N.Y. on Aug. 10, 2011. Hess was one of many family and community members at the 2015 Strawberry Ceremony, an annual Valentine’s Day event organized to mourn and protest the brutal rapes, killings, and disappearances of over 1,100 indigenous women since 1981.

Indigenous Women: Respect Our Knowledge And Tradition

January 21, 2016 Renee Juliene Karunungan, www.fairobserver.com Create! Climate Change, Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Women

By Renee Juliene Karunungan for Fair Observer - “We had a culture where we preserved wild fruits for when we didn’t have enough food and grains,” says Edna Kaptoyo, a Pokot indigenous woman from Kenya. “My mother did this for our family, but today, these fruits have disappeared.” “Women also use grass to cover our houses. But it has become more difficult for us to find grass, so when the storms come, we do not have anything to protect our children,” she adds.

Canada’s Lost Women

December 31, 2015 Sarah Spiller, www.aljazeera.com Educate! Canada, Indigenous Women

By Sarah Spiller for Aljazeera - Canada's aboriginal women make up a small fraction of its population, yet for decades they have suffered disproportionally from abuse, exploitation and murder. Since the 1980s, over 1,000 indigenous women have been murdered in this developed North American nation, yet, according to campaigners and human rights groups, too few of these cases have resulted in arrests or prosecution. Amid mounting claims of official indifference to the problem that some say has its roots in racism and the country's colonial past, People & Power asks why police and the government are not doing more to tackle crimes against Canada's first nation females.

Mom Of Missing Woman To Camp Outside Legislature

October 30, 2015 Marianne Klowak, www.cbc.ca Resist! Indigenous Women

By Marianne Klowak for CBC News - Brenda Osborne sits on a lawn chair inside a tent on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislature, where she plans to spend the winter or until she and other families get the answers they want about their loved ones. As long as it takes," Osborne said Monday, when asked how long she planned to camp out. "As long as people [are] willing to help us and understand what we're going through here, we'll still be here." Brenda Osborne says she will stay through the winter to get the province to pay more attention to the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women.

Indigenous Women Fulfilling Prophecy Of Eagle And Condor

October 17, 2015 Leila Salazar-López, www.amazonwatch.org Create! Indigenous Women, New York (NY)

By Leila Salazar-López for Amazon Watch - On September 27th, I witnessed and participated in a ceremony of indigenous women leaders who gathered in Lanape territory in the East Meadow of Central Park, New York, in order to sign a historic Treaty in defense of Mother Earth. This is the first time that a Treaty has ever been signed between indigenous women of the North and South. Attendees included women from Abya Yala (North and South America), such as Casey Camp (Ponca Pa’tha’ta), Pennie Opal Plant (Yaqui, Choctaw, Cherokee), Crystal Lameman (Beaver Lake Cree), Patricia Gualinga (Kichwa de Sarayaku), Gloria Ushigua (Sapara) and Blanca Chancoso (Kichwa de Otavalo).

Project Highlights Missing & Murdered Aboriginal Women

September 30, 2015 Lucia Edwardson, www.metronews.ca Resist! Canada, First Nations, Indigenous Women, Violence

By Lucia Edwardson in Metro News - In 2014 there were an estimated 225 missing or murdered aboriginal women in Canada, according the RCMP statistics. Jamie Black, an aboriginal artist from Winnipeg, wanted to showcase the issue in an artistic way, so five years ago she created the REDress project. Each dress is “symbolic of the violence faced by indigenous women but is also a symbol of the power of a community coming together to fight this violence,” said Black. Linda Nothing, who is helping to organize the Calgary chapter of the project that will be held Oct. 4 across the country, said they will be accepting red dress donations to create their installment, but are also asking Calgarians to show support on their own. “We encourage people to hang up a red dress outside their home, business or office, to wear a red dress on that day and also to study what is happening, why is that happening,” she said.

UN HRC Slams Canada’s Record On Women

July 24, 2015 CBC News, www.cbc.ca Educate! Canada, Human Rights, Indigenous Women, United Nations, Violence

By CBC News - The UN human rights committee is accusing the Canadian government of failing to act on missing and murdered aboriginal women, violence against women generally, and numerous other matters, ranging from refugees to Bill C-51, the new anti-terror law. The UN's first report card on Canada in 10 years was released Thursday, and measures whether the country has met its human rights obligations. At least 26 human rights organizations, including the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Amnesty International Canada and Human Rights Watch, submitted their own separate reports to the 18-member independent committee on the various issues. Overall, the report took exception to Canada's failure to set up a way to implement some of the committee's recommendations. "It should take all necessary measures to establish mechanisms and appropriate procedures to give full effect to the committee's views so as to guarantee an effective remedy when there has been a violation of the covenant," the report said.

Saskatoon Cathedral Rings Bells For Missing And Murdered Women

May 29, 2015 The Star Phoenix, www.thestarphoenix.com Resist! Canada, Faith, Indigenous Women

The chimes atop St. John's Cathedral in Saskatoon will ring out this week in honour of Canada's missing and murdered aboriginal women. As part of national initiative by the Anglican Church of Canada, the bells in Saskatoon will ring 1,017 times — one chime for each aboriginal women and girls murdered between 1980 and 2012, according to a press release by the church. The chimes will also ring for 105 times for the women and girls "classified as missing in suspicious circumstances." The chimes will ring for five sessions over a span of 22 days, starting May 31, the day Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s closing events commence.

Indigenous Woman Sues Multinational For Husband’s Murder

May 23, 2015 Jeff Abbott, www.truth-out.org Resist! Criminal Justice, Guatemala, Indigenous Women, Law

The indigenous Mayan communities of Guatemala have historically been given few judicial outlets, national or international, to seek justice for human rights violations at the hands of multinational companies operating in their territory. But Angelica Choc, a Mayan Q'eqchi' woman from the small hamlet of La Union in the department of Izabal on Guatemala's eastern coast, has looked to change that. In an unprecedented case, Choc has sued a parent company in its home country for human rights violations committed by its subsidiaries in Guatemala. "Those who have the money here have the voice," Choc told Truthout. "But I too have rights, and I am struggling for respect and dignity.... This demand is not only mine; it is for all of Guatemala, for all of those who have suffered from the invasions of our territories by foreign companies to extract our natural resources. This demand is historic."

Indigenous Activists Reach Westminster Shell Investor Meeting

May 22, 2015 UK Tar Sands Network, www.no-tar-sands.org Resist! Indigenous Women, Oil & Gas, Seattle, shell, United Kingdom (UK)

Today, under the shadow of Big Ben, a delegation of indigenous women was joined by campaigners to protest Shell’s plans to drill in the Arctic. Mae Hank and Faith Gemmill-Fredson travelled to Shell’s Annual General meetings in the Netherlands and London directly after taking action in Seattle last Saturday on a mass “flotilla” where kayaktivists blocked Shell’s Polar Pioneer drilling rig docked at the Port. At the shareholders meeting in London handmade black origami “roses of resistance” were laid at the entrance by UK Tar Sands Network and Platform to demand an end to the expansion of the Canadian tar sands and the exploitation of people in Nigeria plus standing with communities resisting Shell’s plans to drill in the Arctic this summer. A box of resistance roses were hand delivered to the Shell board.

Not Guilty Verdict In Killing Of Indigenous Woman Prompts Protest

April 2, 2015 Kim Wheeler, www.cbc.ca Resist! Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Women, Law

The recent not guilty verdict in the murder trial of an Ontario man accused of killing Cindy Gladue, whose body was found in the bathtub of an Edmonton hotel room, has prompted protest and calls for an appeal. Gladue, a 36-year-old sex worker, was a Cree mother of three who lived in Edmonton. Found dead in an Edmonton hotel room in June 2011, she had bled to death from an 11-centimetre wound in her vagina. The defence for Bradley Barton, a long-distance trucker from Ontario, argued the wound was the result of rough sex, while the prosecution said Barton used a weapon on Gladue. On March 18, a jury found Barton not guilty of first-degree murder, as well as of manslaughter in Gladue's death.

[VIDEO] Roads Blockaded To Highlight Missing & Murdered Women

March 27, 2015 Winnipeg Alternative Media, www.youtube.com Resist! Canada, Indigenous Women

"There is no democracy and we the people have an obligation to demand justice for all. The current status quo in so called Canada serves only the elite few while the majority of Canadians are financial slaves to the system. Politicians do not represent the people, nor have they ever. Indigenous communities know this all too well and have been actively resisting subjugation since contact with the first colonizers who illegally imposed their jurisdiction through covert biological warfare and the ongoing genocide implemented with the residential school system." Despite the blockade happening far east in the city nearly out of city limits on a bitter cold and windy day, it had a profound effect on the city. It hit all of the news stations, was all over the radio and there were calls coming in from people asking what was happening on Portage. There weren't huge numbers, but it had its own impact.

The Apache Way: The March To Oak Flat

March 5, 2015 Roger Hill, www.truth-out.org Resist! Food and Agriculture, Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Women, Land Rights

For years, Standing Fox and a dedicated core group of Apache activists have joined with a coalition of national tribes, environmentalists and concerned retired miners to oppose the land exchange transfer of the Oak Flat region to Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, a mining company headquartered in London. Over the past decade, Arizona Republicans have attempted unsuccessfully to pass the land exchange legislation - twice in 2013 failing to get enough votes to bring it to the floor of the House of Representatives. The land exchange also violates a 1955 executive order by President Eisenhower that explicitly puts the Oak Flat Campground land off limits to future mining activity. Standing Fox joins us in the car to give us a quick tour of San Carlos.

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