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Plans Underway to Drill for Oil Near Sacred Site Mato Paha

The state of South Dakota has shamelessly approved a new oil drilling project near Mato Paha (Bear Butte), an... Read More

Underreported Struggles #36, March 2010

In this month’s Underreported Struggles: Alaska Natives win battle against world’s largest zinc mine; Mayan communities order halt to... Read More

Bitter Sweet or Toxic? Indigenous people, diabetes and the burden of pollution

Note: this is a revised version of my article, “Bitter Sweet or Toxic?” featured in this month’s issue of... Read More

Underreported Struggles #34, January 2010

In this month’s Underreported Struggles: Philippine community blocks entry of large mining firm; First Nation begins blockade in northern... Read More

IRS Auctions off Sioux land to pay back taxes

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has auctioned off 7,100 acres of land belonging to the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe... Read More

Lakota Win Standing to Oppose Uranium Mine

A panel of judges from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted the Lakota and other petitioners, standing to... Read More

Reclaiming Sacred Dakota Land in Minnesota

On September 2nd, members of the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) of the Dakota Oyate (Dakota Nation) reclaimed a... Read More

Underreported Struggles #17, August 2008

In this month’s Underreported Struggles: Indigenous peoples in Mindanao call for autonomy, 65 Communities Declare Victory in Peru, Chavez... Read More

Circle the Wagons (arrests at a Dakota Blockade)

Note: the video that was originally posted here appears to have been deleted from the net. I’m not sure... Read More

Systemic Discrimination in the Supreme Court

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that literally punishes Alaska Natives for the 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil... Read More

Judge Refuses to Stop Hog Farm on Sioux Land

A federal judge ruled last week that the Longview industrial hog farm in South Dakota is not within the... Read More

Underreported Struggles #14, May 2008

A land reclamation in Colombia, an historic gathering Brazil, and two massive lawsuits filed by Indigenous Nations in Canada... Read More

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Not to mention the fact that Indigenous Peoples have specific needs that settler populations generally do not posses, like requiring access to specific land areas to maintain culture, language, the...
It's true in a sense--we're all indigenous to somewhere--however, there are fundamental differences between populations who identify as "indigenous" and those who no longer follow a traditional way of life....
There is a need to recognize that all people are indigenous to this planet. We are one human race beholden to the mother that nurtures us. We must unite under...
Well, I think, unfortunately, passive complaints of PM Harper selling our land & water for basically nothing, are getting nowhere. Time to move up the ladder of complaining. Watch your...
It is instructive to see how mental, spiritual and physical health coincide in the indigenous philosophy, while the progressive view remains trapped in a treatment rather than preventive mode. It...
Kia ora, I would like to say unless they, ( those who say no more Full- Blooded Maori), know the whakapapa of every single Maori in Aotearoa, they should just...
Mohawk??I stand and prepared to back my people at any and all cost...
I have worked with, lived with, and been around Copala Triquis for the past 12 years, and have researched extensively the political oppression in teh region - ever since the...

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