Around Seventy members and supporters from the “the Hawaiian Kingdom Government” occupied the grounds of Iolani Palace on Wednesday, saying the grounds are the property of the “Hawaiian Kingdom.” They locked all the gates and barred government workers and the public from entering the area.

The action ended without incident on the same day, but then they returned the following day—only to leave and then once again return on Friday. The New York Times quoted the group’s leader as saying this is what they plan on doing every weekday from now on. …

Courtesy of the Angry Indian, who featured this on his website last week, here is a ten minute excerpt from a lecture given earlier this year by Tim Wise, author of “White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son.” The lecture was aptly titled The Pathology of Privilege: Racism, White Denial & the Costs of Inequality.

From the Producers: “For years, acclaimed author and speaker Tim Wise has been electrifying audiences on the college lecture circuit with his deeply personal take on whiteness and white privilege.

In this spellbinding lecture, the author of White Like Me: Reflections …

Presently, State troopers from South Dakota are illegally occupying Yankton Sioux Lands. They began doing so on April 15, after Yankton Sioux Tribal Members began protesting a Hog Farm being constructed on their territory without their consent.

According to the Atlantic Free Press, the Sioux Protesters were “met immediately with illegal law enforcement presence and arrest[s]. To date twenty-two people have been arrested on trumped up charges and there has been a total over reaction of law enforcement numbering up to 52 SD Highway Patrol Cars with 22 more Highway Patrol cars waiting …

Some say California is where the American Dream was defined. That an accidental discovery near some river went on to inspire a new kind of lifestyle, one said to be entrepreneurial, wide-open, free.

“Gold Cletus, look I found me some gold! YEEEEEEEEEE HAWWWWWWW!”

It wasn’t long before the rumors started, back in 1849, and not long before they were confirmed by President James K. Polk in his state of the union address later that year. Let the California Gold Rush begin…

At first it was like you see in the movies, you know, where you kneel by …

Roseau River First Nation has just started a video campaign to raise awareness about the issue of oil, poverty, land theft, and violence against indigenous People in Canada - compared to that of what happened to Iraqis when economic sanctions were imposed on them some ten years ago.

Below you will find a Press Release from Chief Terrance Nelson of Roseau River, along with the video itself. Please be advised, the video contains images of deceased persons

CA: Roseau River oil pipelines: Chief Terrance Nelson: Wake Up America!

Links to the videos
PART 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyCeSgHbFbo
PART 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQqajcUCXI

Roseau River is serious …

Brenda Norrell informs us that the judge presiding over the Lipan Apache lands right case has ruled in favor of Homeland Security, giving them access to survey Eloisa Tamez land so they can decide on what they want to take for the infamous, ill-conceived, and ultimately redundant Border Wall.

“The action follows the Nazi-style action of Homeland Security in April, voiding all federal laws to build the border wall, including NAGPRA, American Indian Religious Freedom Act and all environmental laws that protect species such as the …

The Western Shoshone Defense Project (WSDP) informs us that a public comment period will close next week, April 10th, on a proposal by the U.S. Department of Energy to increase nuclear weapons development at the Nevada Test Site, said to be ‘the most heavily-nuked region on the planet.’ The Test Site is located within the Treaty-recognized territory of Western Shoshone lands and has long been protested by Western Shoshone and their supporters.

Please take a moment in the next few days to submit your comment. You can find out how to …

Black Mesa Indigenous Support (BMIS) sends an update on the struggle of the Traditional Dineh residents of Black Mesa, reminding us that the US still intends to relocate the Dineh and destroy their homelands.

For more information and to learn how to help, please visit www.blackmesais.org, and www.blackmesawatercoalition.org

FIRST NATIONS, FIRST RESISTANCE—
SUPPORT THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL AT BIG MOUNTAIN, BLACK MESA, AZ.

On behalf of their peoples, their ancestral lands, and future generations, more than 350 Dineh residents of Black Mesa continue their staunch resistance to the efforts of the US Government– …

Oil on Ice is a one-hour documentary that examines the issues surrounding the exploitation of oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).

The US Government maintains the region is a barren wasteland, as if to say “how can we not take the oil? There’s nothing there but snow!”

However, the claim is no more than a baseless lie. The truth, is that the entire region is teeming with diversity. This becomes apparent when then long winter ends and “its land, mountains, rivers and seas explode with life.” From that point on, “a combination of continual sunlight, abundant …

In the last month, two of the four States that opposed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People issued “apology resolutions” for the historical crimes they committed against indigenous people. First it was Australia on February 13th; and then America threw up an apology of it’s own a couple weeks later, on March 1st.

It’s particularly interesting considering how both States continue to utilize the very same policies they claim to be so sorry about. Or perhaps, that’s not why they’re apologizing?

The Australian Apology
Focusing primarily on the …