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• Akwesasne Alert — blockade established by police

  

  June 1, 2009  3,235 views 30 comments Share

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  June 2, 2009 - A great deal has happened since the initial post of this article. Most critically, the police blockade was lifted and the bridge has been re-opened to the community... In addition to the links below, you may want to keep an eye on the Six Nations Reclamation forum for future updates. June [...]

  Filed Under America • border • Canada • haudenosaunee • Jay Treaty • jurisdiction • Mohawks • Ontario • protests

• You Are on Indian Land

  

  May 23, 2009  5,392 views 14 comments Share

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  You Are on Indian Land was one of the first films in Canada to give voice to the concerns of Indigenous People. Produced in 1969, the film documents a protest that was led by Mohawks from the Haudenosaunee community of Akwesasne on December 20, 1968. At the time, community members were being forced to pay [...]

  Filed Under border • Canada • documentaries • Indigenous Peoples • Jay Treaty • Mohawks • unity • video

• Tohono O’odham Demand Halt to Construction of Border Wall

  

  July 18, 2008  4,674 views 15 comments Share

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  On Thursday, July 10, the O'odham Solidarity Project issued the following call to mobilize against the proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall, which will cut through the heart of the Tohono O'odham's traditional territory (among others'). With the April 1st announcement by the Department of Homeland Security to suspend thirty six federal laws (list of laws found [...]

  Filed Under America • border • Burial Grounds • Indigenous Peoples • jurisdiction • Oodham • sovereignty • struggles

• Judge grants U.S. access to Apache Lands

  

  April 14, 2008  1,498 views 0 Comments Share

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  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 [...]

  Filed Under America • Apache • border • Indigenous Peoples • jurisdiction

• On The Edge: Femicide in Ciudad Juarez

  

  January 12, 2008  3,648 views 2 comments Share

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  For more than a decade, the cities of Chihuahua and Juarez, near the US-Mexico border, have been killing fields for young women. More than 400 women have been murdered and another 4000 more have gone missing since 1993. A significant number of these women worked in the maquiladora sector - "sweatshops that produce for export, [...]

  Filed Under border • free trade • genocide • Mexico • video • women

• Indigenous communities preparing to fight border land grab

  

  January 7, 2008  2,070 views 0 Comments Share

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  Sorry for the short notice, but in about half an hour--at 10:00 am PST--a coalition of individual property owners along with Indigenous and border community leaders will be holding a national telephonic media conference and briefing to announce their intent to fight the Department of Homeland Security's threatened seizure of their property along the border. [...]

  Filed Under Apache • border • Indigenous Peoples • land • unity

• Urgent: Homeland Security preparing to seize Apache lands

  

  November 18, 2007  41,022 views 56 comments Share

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  March 2. 2008: Please note, there have been several updates posted in the comments since this article was initially posted. See the bottom of this post for an overview (includes petitions, media, and contact info) Margo Tamez recently sent out the following urgent call for support, explaining that since July, her Mother and Elders of [...]

  Filed Under America • Apache • border • elders • Indigenous Peoples • land • treaties • women