Native Americans

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.

Healing The Wounds Of Native American Tragedies

September 25, 2015 Derek Royden, www.occupy.com Organize! Native Americans, police brutality

By Derek Royden in Occupy - The Black Lives Matter movement has made a significant impact in part because African Americans are a visible presence in America’s large urban areas. By contrast, Native Americans are more easily ignored since they often live in more rural areas and on reservations. Native American culture, and often Natives themselves, remain a source of ridicule in contemporary North American culture in a way that other groups are not, at least not in such open fashion. For example, sports teams nationwide still proudly flaunt racist names and symbols referring to Native American peoples and traditions. Now, issues of police accountability are opening the public's eyes to the continuing struggles of North America’s First Peoples and other groups unfairly targeted by law enforcement.

Senate Confirms First Native American Ambassador

August 31, 2015 David McCabe, www.huffingtonpost.com Create! Human Rights, Native Americans, United Nations

By David McCabe in The Huffington Post - The Senate confirmed Keith Harper as ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council Tuesday, making him the first Native American to ever become a U.S. ambassador. Harper is an attorney who was one of the lawyers behind a landmark class action lawsuit brought by Native Americans against the federal government. President Barack Obama first nominated him in June 2013. "I’m pleased that my colleagues have voted to appoint another historic first for Indian Country," said Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Chairman Jon Tester (D-Mont.) in a statement. "As a longtime advocate for the civil rights of Native Americans, Keith will be a great Ambassador for our country.” A member of the Cherokee Nation, Harper helped represent around 500,000 Native Americans who brought a class-action suit -- Cobell v. Salazar -- against the United States in the 1990s over alleged federal mismanagement of revenue from mines and oil wells owned by Native Americans.

Rainbow Uprising Of Consciousness Peace March

April 1, 2015 David Crockett Williams, www.popularresistance.org Create! Native Americans, Peace

The Rainbow Uprising Peace March is a ten-month project that is being initiated with a prayer ceremony at Noon on Wednesday, April 1, 2015, outside Santa Barbara City Hall in De La Guerra Plaza. This project represents a call to all the faithful of Islam and Israel to embrace the teachings of nonviolence and accept the message of The Great Law of Peace. April 1st in the US is considered “April Fool’s Day” but it is little known that this comes from an old English annual “Truth Day” holiday where everyone was supposed to tell the truth on that day even if it made them seem like fools. 1treeThis Rainbow Uprising Peace March will culminate over seven days with the “8th Fire Prophecy” 20 year anniversary commemoration prayer walk from Malibu to the UCSB Tree of Peace (January 26 – February 2, 2016)

Edmund Metatawabin Embarks On Healing Journey

November 20, 2014 West Coast Native News, www.westcoastnativenews.com Organize! Education, Native Americans

In late spring, Edmund Metatawabin will embark on a journey that will take him north from his home in Fort Albany to the land of his ancestors. It’s a sacred area in Cape Henrietta Maria, where the southern tip of Hudson Bay and the northwestern tip of James Bay meet. It’s where the ancient ceremonial grounds and a few scattered structures of his people still stand. For Metatawabin, it’s the next chapter in a healing process that began in the 1970s in the backyard sweat lodges of southern Alberta. Now 67, the former chief of Fort Albany First Nations has carved out an impressive career as an educator, writer and activist. It’s a reminder that, while Metatawabin is renowned as an educator who is dedicated to teaching young natives about the traditional ways of the Cree, he still sees himself in some ways as a student who continues to learn and heal.

Slurskins Protest Sunday In San Francisco

November 20, 2014 Matt Barrows, www.sacbee.com Resist! Native Americans, Protest, Racial Justice, Sports

Hundreds of Native Americans will gather outside Levi’s Stadium on Sunday to protest the nickname of the 49ers’ opponent. The “Change the Name. Change the Mascot” rally is not expected to draw the thousands of protesters who showed up with signs and banners when the Washington Slurskins played the Minnesota Vikings in Minneapolis earlier this month, but organizers said it is gaining strength. Tony Gonzales, director of American Indian Movement-West, said he initially figured the rally would draw 200. He now expects double that amount. Gonzales said he has been working with the Santa Clara Police Department and that starting at 10 a.m. Sunday, a coalition of groups will set up near the city’s convention center, which is across the street from the stadium.

Plan To End Cycle Of Native American Poverty

November 11, 2014 Ariel Schwartz www.fastcoexist.com Create! Community, Finance and the Economy, Native Americans

Native American reservations are hotbeds of poverty and alcoholism, with residents often struggling to find employment or basic housing. On many reservations, residents often do what they can to leave. The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, home of the Oglala Lakota Nation, is emblematic of the situation. Some 55% of residents travel 50 miles each day to work—and those are just the residents that have jobs. Poverty is so dire that it's not uncommon to find up to 20 people living in a trailer with two or three bedrooms. A community regenerative plan, led by Nick Tilsen, a young member of the tribe, is aimed at changing all that. Tilsen and his Thunder Valley Community Economic Development Corporation are trying to build an entirely new "regenerative community" on 34 acres of empty land on the reservation. Tilsen's ambitious plan for a sustainable community consists of a number of affordable single-family residences, lofts, townhouses, and co-housing spaces; a daycare center; onsite wind power; an aquaponics greenhouse, and other amenities that residents don't currently have access to.

Modern Day Discrimination Against Native Americans

October 23, 2014 Matt Saccaro, www.mic.com Educate! discrimination, Education, Native Americans

Despite the furor over the Washington Redskins and Columbus Day, the most serious discrimination against Native Americans doesn't take place at a football game or during a poorly-named day off from work. It starts in schools, and pervades all aspects of a Native American's life as time goes on. Native American children attend dilapidated, below-standard schools, some of which date from the Great Depression era. The government is supposed to look after the federally-financed schools, but this task is seemingly beyond their ability, or just beyond their ability to care.

Indigenous Elders On Climate Summit: ‘We Can No Longer Wait’

September 21, 2014 Shawn Mulford, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Climate Change, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Native Americans

Today, in advance of the UN Climate Summit on Tuesday, September 23rd, environmentalist, indigenous peoples and activist will be marching in New York to bring attention to climate change. The Indigenous Council encouraged the marchers by stating, “Know that you yourself are essential to this World. Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally decide the future of humankind. We must sacrifice and move beyond our own comforts and pleasures. We must stop the damaging activities and begin working on restoring the natural environment for the future of All Life.”

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