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Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation challenges new Shell tar sands mines

ACFN Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands explain in their own words why they are saying enough... Read More

Indigenous resistance grows strong in Keystone XL battle

On cloudy days, heavy smoke fills the air of Ponca City, Okla., with grey smog that camouflages itself into... Read More

Growing Number of First Nations Across North America Gather In Ottawa with Unified Message

MARCH 20, 2013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, Ottawa – Chiefs and hereditary leaders from ten First Nations with... Read More

Occupy Enbridge: Taking a Stand on Red Lake Sovereign Land

To the southwest of the Red Lake Anishinaabe Nation, lie desolate, wooded lands that were opened for settlement and... Read More

Patsies and Thugs

As a fascist organization, AFL-CIO — the national unionized labor umbrella in the United States — can be relied... Read More

Tar Sands Toxic Fumes

Toxic waste flowing into the rivers around the Alberta Tar Sands’ strip-mined landscape isn’t the only problem with bitumen... Read More

International treaty to protect the Sacred from Tar Sands signing ceremony

From January 23 – 25, 2013, a Ceremonial Grand Council was held on Ihanktonwan homelands to affirm a unifying... Read More

Tibetan-Canadians Outraged Over Sale of Oil Giant to China, Call On Harper To Do The Right Thing

The Canadian government has approved a controversial deal to sell the Canadian oil giant Nexen to a Chinese state-owned... Read More

First Nation and Metis groups denied effective access to justice

November 26, 2012 Fort McMurray, AB – Today the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) received a decision from the... Read More

First Nation concerned Bill C-45 allows Tar Sands industry to destroy vital waterways and treaty rights

October 18, 2012 – Fort McMurray, AB – Today the conservative government tabled a new version of Bill C-45,... Read More

Stand With the ACFN to Stop Pipelines At the Source

Article Cross Posted from It’s Getting Hot in Here Any fight against the pipelines and tanker projects in BC... Read More

Sacred Water Protection Teach Ins, Sept. 26 & 27, Pine Ridge Reservation

The precious drinking water supply of the Oglala Lakota people will be overlapped more than a few times if... 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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