iSchool leads effort to improve stewardship of Indigenous data
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...
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.
Navajo Nation calls on restoration of Bears Ears National Monument during Deb Haaland visit to Utah | CNN
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.
MDAH Completes Largest Repatriation of Native American Ancestors in State History | Mississippi Department of Archives & History
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.
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 …
Execution of Native American man stirs emotion within tribe
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...
Agreement Formalizes UArizona's Commitment to Pascua Yaqui Tribe | University of Arizona News
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.
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.
News Release Water Protector Legal Collective On Thursday, September 10, 2020, in a long-awaited ruling, United States District Court Judge Daniel Traynor
UArizona Launches Center to Advance Resilience of Native Nations, Address Environmental Challenges | University of Arizona News
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.
U.S. Judge Orders That Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Can Remain Open
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Treaties and Sovereignty, from Westphalia to Standing Rock
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.
Surveillance at Standing Rock exposes heavy-handed policing of Native lands | Julian Brave NoiseCat
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
Sheriffs' Association Secretly Waged "Information War" on #NoDAPL Movement - UNICORN RIOT
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
Local Cops Said Pipeline Company Had Influence Over Government Appointment
Sheriffs in Minnesota worried about who would oversee an escrow account, funded by pipeline giant Enbridge, to reimburse the costs of policing protests.
How Indigenous Activists in Norway Got the First Bank to Pull Out of the Dakota Access Pipeline
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.
Fate of Dakota Access pipeline at stake at Friday court hearing | Reuters
The fate of the Dakota Access pipeline could be decided at a U.S. court hearing Friday, where federal regulators could set in motion a months-long shutdown of the line while the Biden Administration completes an environmental review.