Indigenous faces at COP26
Just a few images of the indigenous people at Cop26 counter-summit Cop Coalition.
Climate Justice Call
Tlingit indigenous representative denouncing capitalism/colonialism at yesterday’s demonstration, which took place in front of COP26 main entrance. Action organised by APIB – Indigenous Peoples Articulation of Brazil.
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Black Hills
Phil Two Eagle is not opposed to the fact that the giant sculpture of American presidents is a major tourist attraction but he thinks the park should have a different focus: oppression.
The battle for Mount Rushmore: ‘It should be turned into something like the Holocaust Museum’
The national memorial draws nearly 3 million visitors a year – and Native Americans want the site back with a focus on oppression
Water Inequality
Amid mounting frustration, Whetung and other Indigenous leaders have launched national class-action lawsuits against the federal government. Arguing the federal government failed to provide clean water and forced communities to live in a manner “consistent with life in developing countries” they are suing the government for C$2.1bn (US1.7bn) damages – the costs associated with years of bottled water trucked and a water treatment system for the whole community.
Dozens of Canada’s First Nations lack drinking water: ‘Unacceptable in a country so rich’
Indigenous leaders are suing the Canadian government for not providing clean water – and ministers admit they have failed
Hip Hop Takes on Canada’s Rasist Legacy
Featuring T-Rhyme, Drezus, Eekwol, Violent Ground, David Strickland and more.
‘Nobody can gaslight us’: the rappers confronting Canada’s colonial horrors
The recent discovery of unmarked graves at residential schools is the latest incident in decades of trauma for Indigenous Canadians, who are using lyricism to process it
Aotearoa Resistance
An estimated 8.3m hectares (20.5m acres) of land in the North Island – nearly 73% of the landmass – as well as almost the entire South Island were taken from Māori through confiscation and inequitable purchases between 1840 and 1939.
Unstoppable movement: how New Zealand’s Māori are reclaiming land with occupations
Since 1975, Māori have been able to reclaim land through a tribunal – but its reach is limited and now they are exploring other options
Indigenous Resistance in South Dakota
NDN Collective responds to blatant erasure of Indigenous people in South Dakota social studies standards
News Release NDN Collective In response to the erasure of Indigenous history from South Dakota’s newly proposed social studies standards, which includes over a
Running For Residential Schools
Ku Stevens, Yerington Paiute Tribe, is 17, and a runner. His great grandfather Frank Quinn attended the Stewart Indian School in 1913. Quinn ran away three times.
Retracing his ancestor’s boarding school escape
17-year-old Ku Stevens honored his great-grandfather recently as part of a ‘Remembrance Run’
Line 3 news
On July 23, 2021, a Minnesota court ordered Hubbard County police officers to stop obstructing a driveway that leads to a Line 3 pipeline protest camp.
‘Huge Legal Win’: Court Stops Police From Blockading Line 3 Protester Camp | Common Dreams
One attorney described the blockade as “an outrageous abuse of law enforcement authority serving the interests of the Enbridge corporation against its environmental opponents.”
Haunani-Kay Trask
RIP Haunani-Kay Trask. (1949 – July 3, 2021)
Hawaiian nationalist, educator, political scientist, author, and professor emeritus at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Trask co-wrote and co-produced the award-winning documentary Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation, winning nine different awards in three different countries.
