Indigenous Rights & Tribal Sovereignty

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Six Ojibwe tribes in Wisconsin are suing the state in federal court to stop the fall wolf hunt, arguing their treaty rights are being violated.

Indian boarding schools held Native American youth hostage in exchange for land cessions.

For the Tohono O’odham people, the mountains are sacred. The story is told that, I’itoi, their creator, lives in a cave below the Baboquivari peak. One day, Tohono O’odham farmers who wanted to expand their land asked I’itoi to move the mountain. But the greediness of the men forced the top of the mountain to break off and the rain to stop feeding the farmers’ crops. Even as the land turned brittle in the heat, the Tohono O’odham people never left. They were here long before their land was divided, first by a border, then again as fences were built and gates closed. Now they fear they will be divided once more. There is no O’odham word for wall, the people say. They promise each other they will stay and fight.

More than three years after the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah was drastically shrunk in size, tribal leaders and activists are hopeful that Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland would soon recommend its restoration.

Group of 10 tribes inhabiting the area since thousands of years will be responsible for protecting the land dubbed Tc’ih-Léh-Dûñ

MDAH has transferred the remains of 403 Native Americans and eighty-three lots of burial objects to the Chickasaw Nation. This is the largest return of human remains in Mississippi history, and the first for MDAH.

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

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Ultimately, it's about getting Indigenous lands back in Indigenous hands.

By Glen Coulthard, Voices Rising (Indigenous Nationhood Movement) There is a significant and to my mind problematic limitation that is increasingly being placed on Indigenous efforts to defend our …

Private land ownership isn’t a solution to Native American poverty.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Late on a fall evening in 2001, Alyce Slim and her granddaughter stopped at a gas station on the Navajo Nation after searching for a traditional healer for leg ailments...

A new agreement between the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and UArizona affirms the university's commitment to helping the tribe's members reach their higher education-related goals.

From education plans for students to a workshop series for professionals and workplaces. Learn or educate about the land you are on.

WHAT IS A LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT? A Land Acknowledgement is a formal statement that recognizes the unique and enduring relationship that exists between Indigenous Peoples and their traditional territories.

Thanks to Allison Jones and others for putting this together! Please note: this is NOT a perfect resource! It is very likely that if you do not do any further research or verify our results, you will err in your acknowledgements. We recommend contacting the nations you get in your results directly, to learn more about […]

Our Mission Native Land Digital strives to create and foster conversations about the history of colonialism, Indigenous ways of knowing, and settler-Indigenous relations, through educational resources such as our map and Territory Acknowledgement Guide. We strive to go beyond old ways of talking about Indigenous people and to develop a platform where Indigenous communities can […]

Native Governance Center is a Native-led nonprofit working to strengthen Native nations’ sovereignty in Mni Sota Makoce, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

A call to action and guide to open public events and gatherings with acknowledgment of the traditional Native inhabitants of the land. Acknowledgment is a simple, powerful way of showing respect and a step toward correcting the stories and practices that erase Indigenous people’s history and cultu

GIDA Global Indigenous Data Alliance Promoting Indigenous Control of Indigenous Data

Research, Policy, and Practice for Indigenous Data Sovereignty

My name is Ladonna Brave Bull Allard. I'm from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. I live in Fort Yates North Dakota.

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What is happening right now at Standing Rock is a crucial historical moment regarding frontline resistance by aboriginal peoples and their allies against extractive industry; these are people who have come to protect the water and environment on behalf of the planet and all human bein

Worth Noting: A Kids Podcast About Current EventsSeason 2, Episode https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/worth-noting/id1579736357---------- Episode SummaryA...

Red Media and Common Notions are pleased to announce the publication of The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth. Authored by two dozen Indigenous revolutionaries, The Red Deal is a political program for liberation that emerges from the oldest class struggle in the Americas—the Indigenous fight for decolonization. Hosted by Sponsored by Common Notions Press and Red Media Order your copy here Support

October 13, 2016 • Penn Humanities Forum on Translation, 2016-2017. More on this event: https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/laduke Because of the urgent…

Over almost three decades of oil drilling in Ecuador's Amazon, Chevron dumped billions of gallons of toxic waste into waterways relied on by local inhabitants for their drinking water.

Awake, A Dream From Standing Rock, A feature documentary film by Josh Fox, James Spione and Myron Dewey chronicling the 2016-2017 DAPL pipeline protests at Standing Rock, North Dakota.