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The Red Nation on Instagram: "Nick Estes speaking at the rally for Leonard Peltier earlier this year on the facts of the case that would not "hold up in today's court of law." Even the top prosecutor in Leonard's case agrees! Leonard Peltier's Walk to Justice is only 2 DAYS AWAY! Tomorrow (Aug 31, 2022) is the ceremony & rally in Minneapolis, MN and the walk begins the following day (Sep 1, 2022) in Minneapolis too. #freeleonardpeltier #freeleonard .... If you have a food or supply donation questions please reach out here on this page or via email at leonardpeltierwalktojustice@gmail.com to set up a drop off time and date in Minneapolis. Volunteer/Support Walk: https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/10c0e4bacad2ea1ffc70-leonard Donate: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=24H3YHAGGSZ7Y&fbclid=IwAR2tYFafb9zSDr0i5U45SW-wbZcl8TMRjUg1XHMizRFNA1rQPEqGJTwTwgU Article: https://lasentinel.net/walk-to-justice-aims-to-obtain-leonard-peltiers-release-from-prison Website: ht
The Red Nation on Instagram: "Nick Estes speaking at the rally for Leonard Peltier earlier this year on the facts of the case that would not "hold up in today's court of law." Even the top prosecutor in Leonard's case agrees! Leonard Peltier's Walk to Justice is only 2 DAYS AWAY! Tomorrow (Aug 31, 2022) is the ceremony & rally in Minneapolis, MN and the walk begins the following day (Sep 1, 2022) in Minneapolis too. #freeleonardpeltier #freeleonard .... If you have a food or supply donation questions please reach out here on this page or via email at leonardpeltierwalktojustice@gmail.com to set up a drop off time and date in Minneapolis. Volunteer/Support Walk: https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/10c0e4bacad2ea1ffc70-leonard Donate: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=24H3YHAGGSZ7Y&fbclid=IwAR2tYFafb9zSDr0i5U45SW-wbZcl8TMRjUg1XHMizRFNA1rQPEqGJTwTwgU Article: https://lasentinel.net/walk-to-justice-aims-to-obtain-leonard-peltiers-release-from-prison Website: ht
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The Red Nation on Instagram: "Nick Estes speaking at the rally for Leonard Peltier earlier this year on the facts of the case that would not "hold up in today's court of law." Even the top prosecutor in Leonard's case agrees! Leonard Peltier's Walk to Justice is only 2 DAYS AWAY! Tomorrow (Aug 31, 2022) is the ceremony & rally in Minneapolis, MN and the walk begins the following day (Sep 1, 2022) in Minneapolis too. #freeleonardpeltier #freeleonard .... If you have a food or supply donation questions please reach out here on this page or via email at leonardpeltierwalktojustice@gmail.com to set up a drop off time and date in Minneapolis. Volunteer/Support Walk: https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/10c0e4bacad2ea1ffc70-leonard Donate: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=24H3YHAGGSZ7Y&fbclid=IwAR2tYFafb9zSDr0i5U45SW-wbZcl8TMRjUg1XHMizRFNA1rQPEqGJTwTwgU Article: https://lasentinel.net/walk-to-justice-aims-to-obtain-leonard-peltiers-release-from-prison Website: ht
Federal Court Denies Tribe a Review of Uranium License
Federal Court Denies Tribe a Review of Uranium License
A federal appeals court has denied the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s request for a review of a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission decision to grant a license for a potential uranium mine in southwestern South Dakota.
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Federal Court Denies Tribe a Review of Uranium License
Tribal Court Caselaw 2022
Tribal Court Caselaw 2022
Searching for tribal court decisions is challenging, because there is no one comprehensive database. This video demonstrates searching in several sources: Fa...
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Tribal Court Caselaw 2022
Nick Estes: Indian Boarding Schools Were Part of “Horrific Genocidal Process” Carried Out by the U.S.
Nick Estes: Indian Boarding Schools Were Part of “Horrific Genocidal Process” Carried Out by the U.S.
The Interior Department has documented the deaths of more than 500 Indigenous children at Indian boarding schools run or supported by the federal government in the United States which operated from 1819 to 1969. The actual death toll is believed to be far higher, and the report located 53 burial sites at former schools. The report was ordered by the first Indigenous cabinet member, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, whose grandparents were forced to attend boarding school at the age of 8. “It’s kind of a misnomer to actually call these educational institutions or schools themselves when you didn’t have very many people graduating, let alone surviving the dire conditions of those schools,” says Nick Estes, historian and co-founder of The Red Nation. Estes says the institutions were part of a “genocidal process” of “dispossession and theft of Indigenous people’s lands and resources.”
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Nick Estes: Indian Boarding Schools Were Part of “Horrific Genocidal Process” Carried Out by the U.S.
Nick Estes: Leonard Peltier’s Continued Imprisonment Is an “Open Wound for Indian Country”
Nick Estes: Leonard Peltier’s Continued Imprisonment Is an “Open Wound for Indian Country”
Calls are growing for President Biden to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier, the 77-year-old imprisoned Native American activist who has spent 46 years behind bars for a crime he says he did not commit. Amnesty International considers Peltier a political prisoner, and numerous legal observers say his 1977 conviction for alleged involvement in killing two FBI agents in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation was riddled with irregularities and prosecutorial misconduct. “At this point, there’s no reason other than vindictive revenge for him to be in prison,” says writer and activist Nick Estes, co-founder of the Indigenous resistance group The Red Nation. “He survived COVID, he’s in poor health, and the man deserves to be with his people,” says Estes, who calls for a full congressional investigation into the deaths of Indigenous activists on Pine Ridge Reservation, where the shootout that led to Peltier’s arrest occurred.
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Nick Estes: Leonard Peltier’s Continued Imprisonment Is an “Open Wound for Indian Country”
A Growing Movement to Reclaim Water Rights for Indigenous People
A Growing Movement to Reclaim Water Rights for Indigenous People
Native tribes are reliant on their local water sources, which have been continuously exploited and contaminated by the U.S. government and non-Native people. Indigenous groups are finding new ways to demand justice.
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A Growing Movement to Reclaim Water Rights for Indigenous People
In 5-4 ruling, court dramatically expands the power of states to prosecute crimes on reservations - SCOTUSblog
In 5-4 ruling, court dramatically expands the power of states to prosecute crimes on reservations - SCOTUSblog
On the second-to-last day of the 2021-22 term, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Oklahoma — and all other states — possesses concurrent jurisdiction with the federal government over crimes committed by non-Indians against Indians in Indian country, wiping away centuries of tradition and practice. Vi
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In 5-4 ruling, court dramatically expands the power of states to prosecute crimes on reservations - SCOTUSblog
Kuper Island
Kuper Island
An 8-part series that tells the stories of four students: three who survived and one who didn’t. They attended one of Canada’s most notorious residential schools – where unsolved deaths, abuse, and lies haunt the community and the survivors to this day. Hosted by Duncan McCue. For the best in true crime from CBC, ad-free, visit apple.co/cbctruecrime.
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Kuper Island
UA offers free tuition for AZ Native undergraduates - Navajo Times
UA offers free tuition for AZ Native undergraduates - Navajo Times
The University of Arizona has announced its new "Arizona Native Scholars Grant" program that will cover tuition and mandatory fees for full-time undergraduate students from Arizona's 22 federally recognized tribes who plan study at the main Tucson campus.
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UA offers free tuition for AZ Native undergraduates - Navajo Times
Wounded Knee artifacts highlight slow pace of repatriations
Wounded Knee artifacts highlight slow pace of repatriations
BARRE, Mass. (AP) — One by one, items purportedly taken from Native Americans massacred at Wounded Knee Creek emerged from the dark, cluttered display cases where they’ve sat for more than a century in a museum in rural Massachusetts.
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Wounded Knee artifacts highlight slow pace of repatriations
Nez Perce Tribe disputes Idaho gold mine air quality permit
Nez Perce Tribe disputes Idaho gold mine air quality permit
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials violated the federal Clean Air Act as well as the state’s regulations by issuing an air quality permit for a proposed gold mine in west-central Idaho, the Nez Perce Tribe and two conservation groups said.
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Nez Perce Tribe disputes Idaho gold mine air quality permit
Treaty Rights, Land and Water Pollution, and Climate at Issue in Clearwater County Case
Treaty Rights, Land and Water Pollution, and Climate at Issue in Clearwater County Case
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, July 28th, 2022 Contact Natalie Cook 651-295-3483 Treaty Rights, Land and Water Pollution, and Climate at Issue in Clearwater County Case BAGLEY, MN – Today a Clearwater County Judge heard arguments with far-reaching implications for Indigenous treaty rights as they relate to extractive industry, land and water pollution, and climate change. In treaties with the United States, Anishinaabe peoples retained the right to engage in spiritual and cultural activities. I
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Treaty Rights, Land and Water Pollution, and Climate at Issue in Clearwater County Case