Day of Awareness honors missing, murdered Native relatives
LAME DEER, Montana — With more than 200 organizations across Turtle Island backing May 5 as a National Day of Awareness for Missing Native Women and Girls, the date received widespread attention in 2021. The national movement to end violence against Native women has organized activities supporting the commemoration since 2017. The five-year campaign, led […]
KXL Pipeline loses permit, but construction goes on
Ten U.S. states and the federal District of Columbia joined tribal government opposition to the KXL oil pipeline construction on May 7, calling for a moratorium on all permits for fossil-fuel infrastructure projects during the Covid-19 pandemic. The request follows an outcry in Indian country over ongoing Keystone XL Pipeline construction despite the most recent […]
Lakota grandmothers fight man camps amid pandemic
The threat “causes eerie memories for us with the infected smallpox blankets that were distributed to tribes intentionally in the 1800s,” said Faith Spotted Eagle, a member of the Brave Heart Society and Yankton Sioux Tribe. “It is absolutely similar, whereby we lost thousands of people in our tribes along the Missouri River.”
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