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 […]
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.”
On Funding, Fossil Fuels and Femicide
Today in honor of Climate Week we share a powerful interview by Ayana Young, founder of the innovative For The Wild podcast. As Standing Rock and the ongoing Water Protectors movement across the continent have made clear, the devastating impacts of the fossil fuel industry fall disproportionately on Native people. And as indigenous leaders Rachel […]
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