Social Movements & the Law

5,053 likes, 23 comments - ndngirlsbookclub on March 14, 2025: "Indigenous women who published debut books in 2024-2025 ✨💫 mainly focused on poetry, because poetry is always underrated🤞 Native & indie booksellers we recommend: 🌵 Palabras Bookstore @palabras_bookstore 🪶Green Feather Books @greenfeatherbooks 💧 Birchbark Books @birchbark_books 🌙 Iron Dog Books @irondogbooks 🌹 Black Walnut Books @blackwalnutbooks 🐦 Quiet Quail Books @quietquailbooks 🧚‍♀️ Paperbacks n Frybread @paperbacks_n_frybread 🍓 Massy Books @massybooks 🌺 Native Books HI @nativebookshi 💫 Books & Burrow (KS) @booksandburrow #indigenouslit #nativelit #ndngirlsbookclub For our LA friends: AWP is at the end of the month, which brings writers from all over to one city. This year, it’s in Tovaangar/Los Angeles & many Native writers will be all in one place; we will be raising money for the Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy, which is restoring land damaged by the recent fires. We are very excited💗✨💫 tickets are at @juniorhighla 🔗".

691 likes, 17 comments - lakotalaw on March 12, 2025: "📢 Take action to win justice for Emily Pike. LINK IN BIO 🔗 Lakota Law supports the passage of HB2281, a bill that will create an 🚨 amber alert system specifically for Indigenous youth — ensuring that no Native family suffers a tragedy like this again. ⚖️ Act now. Tell the Arizona state Senate to pass HB2281 into law and name it Emily’s Law. #EmilyPike #JusticeForEmily #MMIW #MMIR #SayHerName #MMIAwareness #ProtectNativeChildren".

Tristan Ahtone of Grist magazine and K. Wayne Yang (a.k.a. la paperson) of the University of California San Diego will engage in an expansive dialogue on the...

TUCSON – Many members of Native American communities have ties to traditional culture, spirituality and values that have been passed down for thousands of years. So when a tribal member

The University of Arizona hosted a celebration for the 25th anniversary of UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day, showing Indigenous language preservation efforts. The event had language games, resources and discussions with educators and students working to revitalize Native languages like Tohono O’odham, Diné, Hopi and Yaqui.

Hundreds of people showed up Tuesday night for a walk in Mesa to remember the life of a 14-year-old girl from the San Carlos Apache Tribe who was found dead in mid-February.

1,163 likes, 17 comments - lakotalaw on March 6, 2025: "Hundreds of supporters in Mesa, Arizona showed their support in a community vigil for Emily Pike, a 14-year-old girl from the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona who was found in two separate trash bags on Feb. 14 near Globe, Arizona. She was identified last Friday and had ran away from a group home in Arizona. The perpetrators of the crime have not been apprehended. Shannon Bollinger, Navajo Nation, shares what brought her to show her support. #mmiw #mmip".

For Indian Tribes, there is great trepidation about the coming era.

Analysis of Trump’s 2025 executive orders and their impacts on tribal entities, from tax status and energy policy to federal recognition and contracting opportunities

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Tribal and CFR Courts There are approximately 400 Tribal justice systems throughout the Nation. These courts are partially funded through Public Law 638 Tribal Priority Allocations (TPA). Tribal sovereignty is protected throughout the Tribal justice system or through a traditional court.

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List of books by Native authors that have been challenged or banned