History of the American Indian Movement (AIM) w/ Sungmanitu from Chunka Luta Network


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On a sweltering afternoon this past July, Miccosukee youth and cultural workers gathered at Panther Camp, the family grounds down the road from the fenced-off training airport where Florida officials had just erected the notorious migrant-detention facility that has been nicknamed Alligator Alcatraz. The action, coordinated in partnership with the collective Unidos Immokalee, was intentionally communal: hydration and medic teams were on standby, volunteers helped with safety and de-escalation, and young organisers distributed sunblock, insect repellent and art supplies for sign-making. ... read full post
It’s a sunny spring morning as Nakai Clearwater Northup stands amid white pine trees, near a river, surveying the land. ... read full post
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As a longtime Indigenous rights attorney, Gabe Galanda has seen it again and again. Native American kids find themselves accused of minor crimes, yet they’re given no off-ramp to avoid jail, and they become trapped in the juvenile justice system until they end up as adults in a Washington prison. ... read full post
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With characteristic pomp and fanfare, the United Nations Framework on Climate Change’s COP30 Summit, convened from Nov. 10-21, in Belém, Brazil. ... read full post
This summer, Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center (MIWRC) opened a 24-unit Permanent Supportive Housing community on their property in the East Phillips and Ventura Village neighborhood of Minneapolis. Named Oshki-Gakeyaa, which means “New Way” in Ojibwe, its newly renovated apartments were instantly occupied by unhoused Native individuals or families. ... read full post
Taino is an Indigeneity movement. It encompasses a broad range of people throughout the Greater Caribbean islands and their populations in the United States and Canada. As a movement, for some 50 years, family and individual identity has gathered Taino communities of people with ancestral Indigenous roots. ... read full post
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Native Americans will be among hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans whose food assistance will be halted as long as Congress remains in a stalemate over passing a federal spending bill. ... read full post
In Winnipeg, the capital city of Manitoba in Canada, at an intertribal conference of Native American and First Nations people in 1990, Myra Laramee, Cree, coined the term Two-Spirit. A translation of the Anishinaabe phrase niizh manidoowag which means “two spirits,” a contemporary umbrella term for Indigenous people with both masculine and feminine spirits. ... read full post