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Alcatraz 50 years on

Alcatraz 50 years on

“The People’s Home, encapsulates the events that occurred in 1969 and during the 19-month occupation, and chronicles the ceremony that took place 50 years later. “
“Robert Free who was one of the original occupiers, raised a tipi on the island in 1969. This became the symbol for the movement in pursuit of self determination. On the 50th anniversary of these events, Free, accompanied by indigenous youth journey back to Alcatraz Island, raise a tipi to honor those who ignited the movement and conduct a ceremony to pass the responsibility of continuing the pursuit of self-determination and justice to the youth.”
(Voices of Ulali, Richard Oakes, Robert Free, Richard Movescamp, Corinna Gould, Peter Bratt, Lupe Avila, et al. )
Indigenous protests around the world

Indigenous protests around the world

CANADA: High levels of cancer-causing chemicals found
PERU: Indigenous protests against state oil pipeline
GUATEMALA: 60 Indigenous mine opponents arrested
SCOTLAND: Indigenous climate activists denounce COP26 deal
CANADA: Government delays response to UN criticism

GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Chemicals, climate and consultation

Around the world: First Nations people exposed to cancer-causing chemicals in Canada, Indigenous protests against a nickel mine and an oil pipeline, and Indigenous activists denounce a COP26 Glasgow deal as Canada fails to meet a UN deadline.

Tokata and Chase Ironeyes

Tokata and Chase Ironeyes

Tokata and Chase Ironeyes, appeared on Christiane Amanpour’s show, broadcast on both PBS and CNN, to talk about COP26, the anti-pipeline stands, and the future of Indigenous and climate justice.

Tokata’s friend, Greta Thunberg, put it in Glasgow, “It is not a secret that COP26 is a failure. It should be obvious that we cannot solve the crisis with the same methods that got us into it in the first place.”

Oil Protest

Oil Protest

During Cop26 Ocean Rebellion protesters gathered outside oil refinery Ineos Grangemouth – Scotland’s biggest polluter – and vomited ‘oil’ onto the ground.

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video of the action here

Cop26

Cop26

Cop26 protesters’ anger and frustration tinged with optimism

n Tuesday morning, activists dressed in the red jumpsuits familiar to viewers of the dystopian Netflix series Squid Game strike posed for the assembled media on the south bank of the Clyde, directly opposite the Cop26 conference centre.Across the river and further into the city centre later on Tuesday, Anne Thoday was squatting on the pavement on St Vincent Street next to her surdo drum as a thick line of police prevented Extinction Rebellion protesters from moving towards the conference centre.

Buffalo Returning

Buffalo Returning

“Not long ago, settlers attempted to kill off the buffalo as a mechanism to steal our land, and they tried to steal our land as a mechanism to colonize our people and assimilate and destroy us– but they couldn’t,” said Nick Tilsen, President and CEO of NDN Collective. “Now, coming full circle, we have reclaimed these lands and we’ve put the tatanka (buffalo) back on the land.”

NDN Collective Celebrates Buffalo Release with Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s Wolakota Regenerative Buffalo Range & Wildlife Sanctuary | NDN Collective

Rapid City, SD – Today, members of NDN Collective attended the Wolakota Buffalo Release Celebration on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, where close to 100 people gathered, including local students, National Parks Service and Fish and Wildlife Service representatives, members of Native organizations including the Rosebud Tribal Council, the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Land Enterprise, the World Wildlife Fund, the Nature Conservancy, and more.

 

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