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As big data, open data, and open science advance to increase access to complex and large datasets for innovation, discovery, and decision-making, Indigenous Peoples’ rights to control and access their data within these data environments remain limited. Operationalizing the FAIR Principles for scientific data with the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance enhances machine actionability and brings people and purpose to the fore to resolve Indigenous Peoples’ rights to and interests in their data across the data lifecycle.

After a long history of misuse and mistrust, Indigenous data require special care from librarians and others who manage them. Yet libraries and data reposi...

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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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.

One way to become in right relationship with the planet and our environment is to listen to the voices of indigenous communities.

A look at the use of drones to document the protests by Native American tribes and other advocates against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline on the Standing Rock reservation.

While Trump is quick to defend his Confederate forefathers, he has been equally swift to desecrate places held sacred by Native Americans

The controversial projects may affect animals, climate, and people. Here’s how.

We must remember we are part of a larger story. We are still here. We are still fighting for our lives on our own land.

News Release Water Protector Legal Collective On Thursday, September 10, 2020, in a long-awaited ruling, United States District Court Judge Daniel Traynor

The Indigenous Resilience Center will work directly with Native American nations to address environmental challenges in ways that respect Native and Indigenous sovereignty and knowledge.

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Since April 2016, members of the Great Sioux Nation have been protesting, through nonviolent direct action, the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The 1,900-kilometer pipeline runs from the Bakken oil-shale region in western North Dakota to a tank complex in Illinois. Its route crosses the Missouri River directly adjacent to and upstream of the Standing Rock Reservation, one of several belonging to the Dakota and Lakota Sioux. A pipeline break would directly threaten the principal water source of not only Standing Rock, but more than 15 million other people.

The technology TigerSwan used at Standing Rock may be state of the art, but the use of policing to suppress indigenous protest is as old as the United States itself

Thousands of Water Protectors from more than three hundred Native nations, as well as allied supporters from a range of social movements, gathere...

Morton County, ND – A new investigation by DeSmog and Muckrock reveals the behind-the-scenes role played by the National Sheriffs’ Association (NSA) in crafting narratives for law enforcement tasked with protecting the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) from resistance by indigenous peoples and their allies. Emails obtained through public records requests show the Sheriffs’ Association contracted […]

Indigenous people are rejecting oil, coal and gas extraction in favor of renewable energy to save their land, increase employment and fight global warming

Authorities said the risky low-flying maneuver was used to warn demonstrators to disperse, but the reasoning doesn’t hold up.

Sheriffs in Minnesota worried about who would oversee an escrow account, funded by pipeline giant Enbridge, to reimburse the costs of policing protests.

Indigenous Sami activists in Norway and Americans of Sami descent forced the first bank to divest from the Dakota Access pipeline. This is how they did it.

The fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline is part of a centuries-long indigenous struggle against dispossession and capitalist expansionism.