Native Americans

At Standing Rock, A Native American Woman Elder Says The Following

November 11, 2016 Ann Wright, www.commondreams.org Resist! Native Americans, Standing Rock

By Ann Wright for Common Dreams - This time I have been at Standing Rock, North Dakota at the Oceti Shakowin camp to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) for four days during a whirlwind of national and international attention following two terrible displays of police brutality toward the water protectors. On October 27, over 100 local and state police and National Guard dressed in riot gear with helmets, face masks, batons and other protective clothing, carrying assault rifles stormed the Front Line North camp.

Pernicious Myths About Native Americans Needing To Be Uprooted Now

October 24, 2016 Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, www.truth-out.org Educate! Indigenous Peoples, Native Americans

By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz for Truth Out - No collectivity of people in US American society is as enigmatic or misunderstood as Indigenous peoples. From the very first encounters with them five centuries ago, Europeans were confounded by these peoples who looked so different and lived lives that seemed diametrically opposed to theirs and even blasphemous. Europeans brought with them their fears and prejudices accompanied by a sense of entitlement to the land that had been home to the Indigenous peoples for untold thousands of years.

Video Shows Pickup Truck Plowing Into Native American Rights Protesters

October 13, 2016 Sam Levin, www.theguardian.com Resist! Columbus Day, Indigenous Peoples, Native Americans, Protests

By Sam Levin for The Guardian - Reno police are investigating reports of a pickup truck plowing into a group of Native American rights demonstrators after dramatic video emerged showing the vehicle’s occupants arguing with activists, revving the engine and then speeding into the crowd. Police chief Jason Soto said the 18-year-old male pickup driver and 17-year-old passenger contacted police three minutes after Monday evening’s incident beneath the famous arch with the Nevada city’s slogan, Biggest Little City in the World

Letter From Leonard Peltier

July 31, 2016 Leonard Peltier, www.americanindiansandfriends.com Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Indigenous Rights, Leonard Peltier, Native Americans

By Leonard Peltier for American Indians and Friends. June 26th marks 41 years since the long summer day when three young men were killed at the home of the Jumping Bull family, near Oglala, during a firefight in which I and dozens of others participated. While I did not shoot (and therefore did not kill) FBI agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler, I nevertheless have great remorse for the loss of their young lives, the loss of my friend Joe Stuntz, and for the grieving of their loved ones. I would guess that, like me, many of my brothers and sisters who were there that day wish that somehow they could have done something to change what happened and avoid the tragic outcome of the shootout. This is not something I have thought about casually and then moved on. It’s something I think about every day. As I look back, I remember the expressions of both fear and courage on the faces of my brothers and sisters as we were being attacked.

Native American Tribe Gets Federal Funds To Flee Rising Seas

March 17, 2016 David Hasemyer, www.insideclimatenews.org Create! Louisiana, Native Americans

By David Hasemyer for Inside Climate News - In a disappearing section of Louisiana coastline, the people who call Isle De Jean Charles home are moving to save their community and culture. The sacred land in coastal Louisiana that a small community of Native Americans has called home for more than a century has been all but swallowed by the rising sea, leaving residents with little dry ground and a fear they will lose their heritage.

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.

Founder Of American Indian Movements Asks Sanders About Treaties

February 22, 2016 Staff, www.vimeo.com Resist! Bernie Sanders, Indigenous Peoples, Native Americans

By Staff of The UpTake - Clyde Bellecourt, whose Indigenous name is Nee-gon-we-way-we-dun (which means "Thunder Before the Storm”), took the microphone at a forum in Minnesota and makes a speech about the history of abuse of Indigenous Peoples and asks Bernie Sanders if he is elected president will he honor treaties the US made with Native Americans. Bellecourt founded the American Indian Movement with David Banks, Herb Powless, and Eddie Benton Banai, among others in 1968 and was elected its first chairman.

Native American Slaves In New France

January 20, 2016 Brett Rushforth and Andrew Kahn, www.slate.com Educate! Colonialism, History, Native Americans, Slavery

By Brett Rushforth and Andrew Kahn for Slate - Between 1660 and 1760, French colonists in New France enslaved as many as 10,000 Native Americans, forcing them to work as farm hands, domestic servants, and construction laborers. Enslaved Natives tended livestock, prepared meals, washed laundry, loaded trade goods into warehouses and onto boats, and cared for French children. Despite the trauma of their violent capture and forced transport into an alien culture, they found ways to survive: forming friendships, stealing private moments of solitude, making plans for a future when they would no longer be slaves.

America’s Other Original Sin

January 20, 2016 Rebecca Onion, www.slate.com Educate! Colonialism, Native Americans, Slavery, US history

By Rebecca Onion for Slate - Here are three scenes from the history of slavery in North America. In 1637, a group of Pequot Indians, men and boys, having risen up against English colonists in Connecticut and been defeated, were sold to plantations in the West Indies in exchange for African slaves, allowing the colonists to remove a resistant element from their midst. (The tribe’s women were pressed into service in white homes in New England, where domestic workers were sorely lacking.)

On Holiday Myths And State Violence

November 26, 2015 Kelly Hayes, www.liftedvoices.org Educate! Black and Brown Vitality, Native Americans, State Violence, US genocide

By Kelly Hayes for Lifted Voices - One of the common refrains that Indigenous people in the United States are confronted with when they speak to this country’s history of genocide and repression is the claim that the harms Natives have historically endured are confined to the past. We are told that we are no longer living out the reality or the legacy of losing 100 million of our people in much the same way that Black Americans are told that they are no longer suffering the aftereffects of slavery. The social demand that oppressed peoples behave as though they are no longer experiencing the consequences of colonialism, mass kidnappings, dehumanization and genocide would be absurd enough on its face, given that the violence inflicted upon Brown and Black bodies...

Anniversary: Remembering The Occupation Of Alcatraz

November 22, 2015 Unknown, www.nativevillage.org Resist! Alcatraz, Indigenous Rights, Native Americans, Occupy

From NativeVillage.org. California - From November 20, 1969, to June 11, 1971, Native Americans took over and held Alcatraz Island as Indian Land. The Occupation of Alcatraz Island" was led by the Native American group, Indians of All Tribes (IAT). The take-over lasted 14-months and ended when the Indians were forcibly removed by the federal government. Indians of All Tribes claimed the island by citing the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) between the U.S. and the Sioux. The treaty returned to Native peoples all retired, abandoned and out-of use federal lands. When Alcatraz penitentiary closed in 1963, the U.S. declared the island as surplus federal property. So Red Power activists reclaimed it. On March 9, 1964, Richard McKenzie and other Sioux occupied Alcatraz for four hours.

Native Candidates Win Big In Washington State Elections

November 9, 2015 Matt Remble, www.lrinspire.com Create! Elections, Native Americans, Washington

By Matt Remble for LRInspire - On November 3rd, Native American candidates won in several statewide races, included Debora Juarez (Blackfeet) who became the first Native American to win a seat on the Seattle City Council. Joining Juarez in another Seattle first, was the election of Scott Pinkham (Nez Perce) to the Seattle School board. Pinkham is believed to be the first Native American elected to serve on the school board. North of Seattle, in Bellingham, Roxanne Murphy (Nooksack) was re-elected to the Bellingham City Council. In 2014, Murphy sponsored the “Coast Salish Day” resolution to replace the Federal holiday Columbus Day for the city of Bellingham.

Victory—Albuquerque Declares Indigenous People’s Day

October 9, 2015 Nick Estes, www.therednation.org Resist! Indigenous Peoples, Native Americans

By Nick Estes for The Red Nation, Today, Oct. 7, 2015, is historic for Indigenous peoples of Albuquerque. The Albuquerque City Council declared the celebration of Indigenous People’s Day on the second Monday of October, a day nationally recognized as “Columbus Day.” Albuquerque is New Mexico’s largest city, and has the highest concentration of Native people in the state. City Council President Rey Garduño-with guidance and input from The Red Nation and community organizations-wrote, sponsored, and proposed the initiative. Six councilor endorse and three abstained.

Winnemem Wintu Fight For Cultural Survival In Northern California

October 8, 2015 Rucha Chitnis, www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com Resist! Native Americans, North Carolina

By Rucha Chitnis for Indian Country Today Media Network, At a sacred fire in the ancient village site in Coonrod, Chief Caleen Sisk raised a glass of ceremonial water towards a soaring Mount Shasta. The Winnemem Wintu Tribe members gathered for a Fire and Water ceremony at sunrise to pray for the return of their revered salmon and for the health of their sacred spring in Mount Shasta and surrounding waterways. “Salmon are life. They bring life, and they should be back on this land again,” said Chief Sisk, spiritual leader of her tribe. The Winnemem Wintu are known as the Middle Water People, their identity tied spiritually to a sacred spring on Mount Shasta, a river that once flowed here unfettered and the Chinook salmon that flourished in the waters.

Hundreds Gathered For A Rally Against Enbridge

October 8, 2015 Melissa Shaw, www.tnewsfriends.net Resist! Native Americans, Pipelines

By Melissa Shaw for News Friends, About 500 people attended a rally in support of eight First Nations, four environmental groups and one labour group challenging the Federal Government’s approval of Enbridge’sNorthern Gateway pipeline. The crowd gathered at the corner of Howe and Georgia Street in Vancouver on Thursday October 1, the first day of a six-day hearing in the Federal Court of Appeal. “The struggle involves all the nations and everything from direct action to court cases to political action,” said Bob Ages during the rally. Ages is a member of the Council of Canadians and the Unist’ot’en Solidarity Brigade, which is “physically blocking pipeline crews” working on Chevron’s Pacific Trails Pipeline (PTP), which crosses Wet’suwet’en traditional territory in Northern BC.

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