#FreeLeonardPeltier
"Nonostante sia stata dimostrata la sua estraneità ai fatti, Leonard dopo 48 anni si trova ancora in carcere."

#LeonardPeltier
#HumanRights #NativeAmericans
#INDIGENOUS #USA #12settembre

https://www.pressenza.com/it/2023/09/12-settembre-leonard-peltier-compie-79-anni-ancora-in-carcere-dopo-48-anni/

From 08 Sep: Congressional watchdog says Trump’s wall “toppled untold numbers of saguaro cactuses in Arizona, put endangered ocelots at risk in Texas and disturbed Native American burial grounds.“ - https://apnews.com/article/us-mexico-border-wall-environment-damage-d6b396abf31ecf063ec637964048a05e #uspol #border #environment #nativeamericans

Amid Continued #Sovereignty Campaign, #Wabanaki REACH Creates Play as Part of Truth-Telling Project

Evan Popp, Maine Beacon
Thu, August 31, 2023

"As part of a truth-telling initiative that seeks to illuminate the issue of land claims and the 1980 #SettlementAct as well as celebrate the resilience of #Indigenous communities, the group #WabanakiREACH has partnered with a #Maine-based #theater organization to create a play developed by and for #Wabanaki people.

"The play, titled where the river widens, is an original, community-developed production and is being put on in partnership with #ThreadbareTheatreWorkshop, a group located on the Blue Hill peninsula. The work is the first public offering based on a project in which Wabanaki REACH — an organization supporting Indigenous self-determination through education and other restorative practices — spent a year gathering more than 40 oral history interviews from Wabanaki people and those in Maine about Maine Indian land claims and the 1980 Settlement Act.

"As Beacon previously reported, Wabanaki tribes have long argued that the Settlement Act has stifled tribes’ economic development and allowed the state to treat sovereign Indigenous nations as municipalities, creating a paternalistic and unfair relationship that no other federally-recognized tribe is subject to. Given that, the Wabanaki have created a grassroots movement in the last couple years behind reforming the Settlement Act to recognize the tribes’ inherent sovereignty, but opposition from Gov. #JanetMills has stymied such efforts despite broad support for change from the public.

"Earlier this year, tribal leaders also attempted to pass a bill to ensure that the Wabanaki would have access to most federal laws that benefit Indigenous tribes around the country. Proponents of that legislation noted that because of the Settlement Act, any federal law enacted after 1980 for the benefit of tribes across the U.S. that impacts the application of Maine law doesn’t apply to the Wabanaki unless they are specifically included in the measure by Congress. However, Mills in June vetoed the measure pushed by tribal leaders to rectify that situation.

"Given the power of the stories Wabanaki REACH was able to collect on the subject, Maria Girouard, the group’s executive director, said the organization felt it was important to share those experiences with a wider audience via theater.

“We were so moved by the stories we gathered, it was a natural next step to talk about theater as a way of continuing to move the conversation from the head to the heart, to reach more people, and to gather in community,” Girouard said.

"The play is set outdoors along the #PenobscotRiver, which itself has been the subject of land claim disputes and issues related to tribal sovereignty. It stitches together music, song, dance and the interviews from Beyond the Claims: Stories from the Land & the Heart — the name of the Wabanaki REACH truth-telling initiative.

"A news release about where the river widens also describes it as a 'poetic, spare, lyrical movement through stories, place, and time” and a thought-provoking play that “not only illuminates a complex and tumultuous era, but celebrates the beauty, creativity, and resilience of Wabanaki people.'

"#Threadbare said they are excited to be working with Wabanaki REACH on the play, which features #LilahAkins, #EstherAnne, #NickBear, #WolatqinBear, #AndreaFrancis, #MariaGirouard, #DaleLolar, #GeorgeLoring, #MargoLukens, #JoshuaMcCarey, and #ErlenePaul as co-creators and performers.

"'Threadbare’s way of co-creating, not only with community members but inspired by them, aligns so beautifully with Wabanaki REACH’s values of connection and joy,' said Kate Russell, artistic director of Threadbare Theatre Workshop. 'I am grateful for the generous folks who have come together this summer to create and perform this play — they are brilliant.'

"There will be two public performances of the hour-long play on Indian Island on Sept. 16 and Sept. 17 at 5 p.m. With space limited, those who want to attend must register ahead of time to reserve seats by visiting wabanakireach.org."

https://news.yahoo.com/amid-continued-sovereignty-campaign-wabanaki-222018960.html

#IndigenousNews #WabanakiConfederacy #PenobscotNation #Maliseet #Passamaquoddy #Mikmaq #FirstNations #MaineTribes #Arts #Theatre #TruthTelling #NativeAmericans

In the #PenobscotNation, a lack of jurisdiction hampers tribal courts

by Donovan Lynch, August 31, 2023

"But often, the tribal court doesn’t have the jurisdiction to remedy these problems on its own. As a result of the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980, the State of Maine has broad power over matters of law and order on tribal land."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/in-the-penobscot-nation-a-lack-of-jurisdiction-hampers-tribal-courts/ar-AA1fXzvb

#IndigenousNews #WabanakiConfederacy #FirstNations #MaineTribes #Wabanaki #NativeAmericans

Native Americans, on average, die 12-13 years earlier than their white counterparts, with the largest disparities in the northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states. The disparity in age at death is in part due to Native Americans dying from diseases at younger ages than white Americans and higher levels of homicide. #NICHDImpact #RockyMountains #GreatPlains #Indigenous #NativeAmericans #Mortality #RacialDisparities
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35300314

#AmericanIndianAirwaves 8.31.2023

Pt 2 #Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush

Guest: #KaitlinReed (Yurok/Hupa/Oneida), Associate Professor of Native American Studies at Cal-Poly, Humboldt and the author of the newly published book: #SettlerCannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in #Indigenous Northern #California

#CannabisIndustry #SettlerColonialism #LandBack #NativeAmericans #FirstNations #books

@WesternWatershedsProject
"#NativeAmericans have used #PinyonPine and #juniper trees for food, medicine and ceremonial purposes since time immemorial. Pinyon pine nuts are a traditional food source for area Tribes and a focal point of traditional ways of life. Tribes and their members maintain ties to historic pine-nut gathering locations and hold ceremonies coinciding with the annual pine nut harvest.

"#SpringValley is an important cultural landscape for the #WesternShoshone, both as a traditional location for gathering and ceremony, and as a site of repeated massacres by #colonizers. Two Western Shoshone Tribal elders, Delaine and Rick Spilsbury, have joined today’s litigation."

#CulturalGenocide #Ecocide #Clearcutting

https://westernwatersheds.org/court-order-sought-to-block-clear-cutting-project-near-nevadas-great-basin-national-park/

Tribal nations are celebrating the designation of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument in Grand Canyon National Park. High Country News reports on how decades of Indigenous advocacy led to the historic moment. https://flip.it/1tL94i
#NativeAmericans #GrandCanyon #Culture #Indigenous

#KillersoftheFlowerMoon #movie trailer. Movie comes out Oct 2023 #Indigenous #OsageNation #History #histodons #nativeamericans

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EG0si5bSd6I&feature=share

#KillersoftheFlowerMoon #author #DavidGrann discusses his #research and shocking discoveries
#Indigenous #OsageNation #bookstodon #History #histodons #NativeAmericans
https://youtube.com/watch?v=I6D6sJxECxQ&feature=share

Visitors to Minneapolis' Stone Arch Bridge often gaze at the St. Anthony Falls, the downtown skyline or the area's famous flour mills. Just downstream from the falls is the empty space in the Mississippi River once occupied by Spirit Island, a sacred site for Dakota people. It gradually disappeared between the 1890s and the 1960s as it was quarried for limestone and then dredged to further navigation of the river. https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-spirit-island-dakota-history/600298046/

#Minnesota #NativeAmericans #Dakota

the way online advertising is evolving resembles the #economic effect of #NativeAmericans not understanding the value of the land they were giving up given the concept of land ownership itself never evolved in their #existential narratives... Today's #data grab is yesterday's #LandGrab, #GoldRush etc

#ethereum

New Yorker: “Wolves,” by Sterling HolyWhiteMountain https://www.newyorker.com/books/flash-fiction/wolves-sterling-holywhitemountain #NewYorker #Books/FlashFiction #NativeAmericans #Generationgaps #Languages #Wolves #Race

From 14 Aug: In Oklahoma, Native American women struggle to access emergency contraception amidst a strict abortion ban - /restricted/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oklahoman.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fnation%2F2023%2F08%2F10%2Fnative-american-women-limited-access-plan-b-contraception-oklahoma%2F70530176007%2F #nativeamericans #uspol #birthcontrol #abortionrights

The #BaajNwaavjoItahKukveni and the Legacy of #NuclearColonialism across Mother Earth

"Guest: Ian Zabarte (Newe Sogobia [Western Shoshone] Nation), is a long-time #Indigenous activist who worked tirelessly to stop the #YuccaMountain high-level #NuclearWaste repository in Western Shoshone Treaty lands (also known as the state of Nevada)"

https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/the-baaj-nwaavjo-itah-kukveni-and-the-legacy-of-nuclear-colonialism-across-mother-earth

#NativeAmericans #FirstNations #uranium #UraniumMining #UraniumPoisoning #NuclearIndustry #GrandCanyon

#AmericanIndianAirwaves

The Biden administration’s #environmental justice office is investigating whether California’s #water agency has discriminated against #NativeAmericans and other people of color by failing to protect the water quality of San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. #discrimination https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2023/08/california-water-agency-investigation-discrimination/

The Biden administration’s #environmental justice office is investigating whether California’s #water agency has discriminated against #NativeAmericans and other people of color by failing to protect the water quality of San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. #discrimination https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2023/08/california-water-agency-investigation-discrimination/

Pritzker signs bills expanding protections for Native Americans
SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – Gov. JB Pritzker signed a package of bills Friday extending cultural protections to Native Americans in Illinois and requiring the teaching of Native American history in public schools.

At a bill signing cerem
https://www.heartlandnewsfeed.com/2023/08/08/pritzker-signs-bills-expanding-protections-for-native-americans/
#Illinois #IllinoisNews #JBPritzker #JosephRupnick #NativeAmericans

Biden to announce new national monument designation for Grand Canyon https://politicaliq.com/2023/08/08/biden-to-announce-new-national-monument-designation-for-grand-canyon/ #GrandCanyon #NationalMonument #Arizona #ClimateAction #NativeAmericans #politicaliq #news #politics

#NativeAmericans #Oklahoma #SCOTUS Has not Native Americans been victimized enough without the State of Oklahoma trying to negate one of their SCOTUS victories? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F29iPcIW0AAHEVq?format=png&name=900x900