Judge dismisses suit seeking to remove roadblocks set up by Wisconsin's Lac du Flambeau tribe

The tribe has been locked in a heated dispute with the town of Lac du Flambeau and 21 nontribal land owners since January.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2023/08/16/lac-du-flambeau-tribe-roadblocks-can-stay-after-judge-dismisses-suit/70604095007/

#AmericanIndians #TribalSovereignty #TreatiesAreLaws

"When NAGPRA was passed in 1990, Congress estimated that thousands of Native objects would be returned within a decade. But as of this year, the remains of more than 110,000 Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Natives' ancestors still reside in institutional collections."

Fed Funding Incentivizes Institutions to Keep—Even Destroy—Native Remains: Report

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/federal-funding-has-incentivized-institutions-to-hold-on-to-and-even-destroy-native-remains-a-new-report-suggests-2340329 via Artnet
Photo: Josh Ewing via Artnet
#NativeAmericans #AmericanIndians #FirstPeoples #Archeology

"Although freedom of the press is enshrined in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, these rights do not apply to Indian Country (Native Nations & communities across the US)."

Doc Film: Native Journos, Muscogee Nation Clash Over Free Press

https://hyperallergic.com/832438/muscogee-journalists-fighting-for-a-free-press-documentary/ via Hyperallergic
Photo: Joe Peeler via Sundance
#BadPress #BadPressMovie #BadPressDocumentary #Documentary #Journalism #FreedomOfThePress #NativeAmericans #AmericanIndians #MuscogeeNation #Muscogee

US Army Corps revokes permit for Minnesota mine, cites threat to downstream tribe's water standards

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press

https://www.startribune.com/us-army-corps-revokes-permit-for-minnesota-mine-cites-threat-to-downstream-tribes-water-standards/600280686/

#CleanWater #TribalSovereignty #AmericanIndians #IndigenousPeoples #GoodNews

US Issues 20-Year Ban On Drilling Near Indigenous Cultural Site In New Mexico: Protects Chaco Region, Tribal Cultural Sites from Development
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/06/05/us-issues-20-year-ban-on-drilling-near-indigenous-cultural-site-in-new-mexico-protects-chaco-region-tribal-cultural-sites-from-development/
#AmericanIndians #IndigenousPeoples #FilthyFossilFuels #GoodNews

According to the National Indian Council on Aging they stated in 2019: #americanindians and #alaskanatives serve in the #armedforces at 5 times the national average. Natives have the highest per-capita involvement of any population to serve in the U.S. military.

They also have a higher concentration of women servicemembers than all other groups. Nearly 20% of American Indians and Alaska Natives servicemembers were women, while 15.6% of all other servicemembers were women.

RM: I do not believe that capitalism itself is really responsible for the situation in which #AmericanIndians have been declared a national sacrifice. No, it is the European tradition; #EuropeanCulture itself is responsible. #Marxism is just the latest continuation of this tradition, not a solution to it. To ally with Marxism is to ally with the very same forces that declare us an acceptable cost.

A couple more of my recent maps in these reports #poverty #AmericanIndians #maps #censusbureau
https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2022/comm/aian-month.html

I've been on an #Enough binge. One of the old phrases that came to mind is "500 Years is enough". I used to see protest signs or memes but now a quick search got me #BillBigelow's page:
> In the 1970s an #Ojibway teacher flew to #Italy and.. announced, “I discover and claim this land in the name of #AmericanIndians.”.. largely unreported in the North American press.. [It] was intended to demonstrate the absurdity of.. #Columbus’s.. claim of October 12, #1492.
https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/columbuss-lingering-legacy-500-years-is-enough/

https://barrygrahamauthor.site/chris-la-tray-i-was-raised-beside-squaw-peak

#ChrisLaTray #SquawPeak #AmericanRacistPlaceNames #NativeAmericans #AmericanIndians #PiestewaPeak

Interesting fact of the day: While Native Americans never developed the metallurgical knowledge to create steel and iron themselves they did in fact have steel and iron tools long before contact with Europeans.

What happened was drift iron, from asian ship wrecks, due to the current, would often wash ashore along the American north wast. This would take the form of nails or other iron pieces embedded in wood (thus being capable of floating. Native Americans had no idea where this iron was coming from or how it was made, but they did recognize its superior quality as a metal compared to the sorts of metals they typically had access to. As such the Native Americans in the north west would typically harvest this iron and forge it into tools.

To me this is just so extraordinary because they had no contact with outside peoples at this point and had no idea anyone existing out there across the ocean. Yet they kept finding this odd metal they had never seen and must have known it wasnt natural as it was shaped into a nail or a winch or something. So I can only imagine the fantasies they came up with about where it was really coming from, especially considering that it was far stronger and could be made far sharper than any metal they had ever seen. It must have seen magickal to them.

#NativeAmericans #AmericanIndians #Indians #History

#CarolineWeldon (1844 , 1921) artist and activist with the National Indian Defense Association. Weldon became a confidante and the personal secretary to the #Lakota #Sioux Indian leader #SittingBull during the time when Plains Indians had adopted the Ghost Dance movement. #history #americanindians