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Rainforest Flying Squad

Rainforest Flying Squad

The bitter fight over the future of Vancouver Island’s diminishing ancient forests – in which activists used guerrilla methods of resistance such as locking their bodies to the logging road and police responded by beating, dragging and pepper-spraying demonstrators – has surpassed the previous record of arrests set in the 1990s at the anti-logging protests dubbed the “War in the Woods”.

Anti-logging protest becomes Canada’s biggest ever act of civil disobedience

A string of protests against old-growth logging in western Canada have become the biggest act of civil disobedience in the country’s history, with the arrest of least 866 people since April.

Walking Eagle News

Walking Eagle News

Described as “purveyors of only the finest Indigenous news”, Walking Eagle first began as a comedy project for Tim Fontaine in 2017. After leaving a career in Canadian journalism that spanned nearly two decades, Fontaine turned to satire in an effort to provoke debate and capture the myriad frustrations felt by Indigenous peoples across the country.

Canada turns to satirical Indigenous website to interpret grim news

ays after the statues of two British monarchs were toppled in the province of Manitoba amid growing fury over the legacy of Canada’s residential school system, where Indigenous children were forcibly sent for much of the 20th century, the website Walking Eagle News had its own take – not so much on the grief and outrage, but on the fixation with statues.

Aotearoa Resistance

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

wo years ago, a small pocket of land three kilometres from Auckland’s international airport became the most prominent site of a struggle by Māori, New Zealand’s indigenous people, to reclaim land confiscated by the crown more than 150 years ago.

No Cree in Google Translate

No Cree in Google Translate

The app, which supports 109 languages, does not offer Cree or any of the other roughly 150 Indigenous languages spoken today in North America.

Google Explains Why App Can’t Translate Most Native American Languages

WASHINGTON – Bill Waawaate is Indigenous, smart, educated, and the millionaire-founder of a highly successful snowmobile company. He also is a comic book superhero from a First Nation in Canada. “The aim here is to help Canadians understand Indigenous culture and to erase the stereotypes about First Nations communities,” said Joseph John, the Montreal-based designed and publisher of the Citizen Canada comic book series.

Indigenous Resistance in South Dakota

Indigenous Resistance in South Dakota

NDN Collective responds to blatant erasure of Indigenous people in South Dakota social studies standards

NDN Collective In response to the erasure of Indigenous history from South Dakota’s newly proposed social studies standards, which includes over a dozen omitted references to the Oceti Sakowin – the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota people who are Indigenous to South Dakota and surrounding states – NDN Collective released the

Fishing Resistance

Fishing Resistance

“For me it’s simple,” he said. “We have a right for this fishery and all we want them to do is to respect that and to let us govern our own fishery and to actually exercise that right.” The Sipekne’katik First Nation argues that a 1999 Supreme Court of Canada decision affirming its members’ treaty right to fish allows them to harvest lobster year-round to earn a “moderate livelihood.”

First Nation in Nova Scotia vows to keep fishing despite arrest for ‘unauthorized fishery’

Days after he was arrested by federal Fisheries Department officers, Sipekne’katik First Nation Chief Mike Sack said Friday his band members will continue to fish in St. Marys Bay whether Ottawa likes it or not.

Tribal citizen nominated to lead National Park Service

Tribal citizen nominated to lead National Park Service

If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Charles F. “Chuck” Sams III, a citizen of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation who has worked in land management and natural resource fields for decades, would be the first Native person to serve as director of the NPS, which is part of the Department of the Interior.

Tribal citizen nominated to lead National Park Service for first time in history

Tribal citizen nominated to lead National Park Service for first time in history WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Joe Biden is once again making history with his choice to lead the National Park Service, the federal agency that oversees millions of acres of ancestral tribal territories and treaty lands.

Columbus Didn’t Introduce Horses

Columbus Didn’t Introduce Horses

“We have calmly known we’ve always had the horse, way before the settlers came. The Spanish never came through our area, so there’s no way they could have introduced them to us,” reads one quote from a Blackfoot (Nitsitapi) study participant in Collin’s doctoral study.

Yes world, there were horses in Native culture before the settlers came

Yvette Running Horse Collin’s recent dissertation may have rewritten every natural history book on the shelf. A Lakota/Nakota/Cheyenne scholar, Collin worked within the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Indigenous Studies program to synthesize fossil evidence, historical documents and oral history to present a compelling new story of the horse in the Americas.

hemp-infused, non-alcohol wine

hemp-infused, non-alcohol wine

After losing a family member to alcohol and opioids, Jody Colbert knows all too well where addiction can take people.
As part of her effort to combat alcoholism she describes as “rampant” among Native communities, Colbert created a hemp-infused, non-alcohol wine under the brand War Chief Wine Collection LLC.

War Chief Wines focuses on ‘healthier choices’ with hemp-infused, non-alcoholic beverage

After losing a family member to alcohol and opioids, Jody Colbert knows all too well where addiction can take people. As part of her effort to combat alcoholism she describes as “rampant” among Native communities, Colbert created a hemp-infused, non-alcohol wine under the brand War Chief Wine Collection LLC.

Native people and Christianity

Native people and Christianity

If you only listen to a few mins start at 7.20 it’s Steve Newcomb (Shawnee and Lenape) – author of “Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery”

Thursday, July 8, 2021 – The complex relationship between Native people and Christianity ” Native America Calling

Indigenous people are calling on the Catholic Church to be held accountable after continued revelations of unmarked graves on grounds of residential schools the church operated. Christian-based boarding schools are an enduring symbol of forced assimilation of Native children in the United States. At the same time, Christianity is a strong component of many Indigenous […]

1876

1876

My favourite indigenous punk band 1876  have released a new EP and its fecking great.

Joe Buffalo

Joe Buffalo

From residential school survivor to master sk8er, strength and resilience