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  Op-ed: There Is No Future Where the Lakota and the Buffalo Don’t Exist Together

  https://civileats.com/2025/06/25/op-ed-there-is-no-future-where-the-lakota-and-the-buffalo-dont-exist-together/

  We as Lakota people came from the center of the earth, out of what is called Wind Cave, in He Sapa, the Black Hills, the heart of everything and the center of our universe. There are multiple iterations of our creation story, but in one, when we first emerged from the Earth, it was clear there was going to be a lot of hardship, that our people would starve and would not be able to live in this new world. As a sacrifice, the last woman out of the cave transformed into a Buffalo, giving herself to feed the people. From that moment on, our people committed ourselves to honor the Buffalo in gratitude; we had an understanding that we would always take care of each other. ... read full post

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  Leonard Peltier talks freedom, future after nearly 50 years in prison

  https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/06/24/leonard-peltier-gives-interview-after-release-from-prison

  Leonard Peltier’s home on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa reservation is nestled among green prairie grasses at the end of a tree-lined gravel road. His small yard and 2-bedroom home sit below the big skies of North Dakota. In the driveway sits an old van that he’s determined to fix. He calls it his Indian Car. ... read full post

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  Harvard-linked study finds Israel ‘disappeared’ nearly 400,000 Palestinians in Gaza, half of them children: Report

  https://thecradle.co/articles-id/31546

  A study published via the Harvard Dataverse reveals that Israel has “disappeared” at least 377,000 Palestinians since the start of its genocidal campaign against the Gaza Strip in 2023. ... read full post

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  Indigenous filmmakers get support from Sundance - High Country News

  https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-filmmakers-get-support-from-sundance/

  This year, the 2025 Sundance Institute Native Lab was held at the Picuris Pueblo-owned Hotel Santa Fe in Santa Fe, where the Native Lab relocated in 2015. Indigenous program director Adam Piron (Kiowa/Mohawk) hosted four new Native Lab fellows and two artists in residence. ... read full post

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  Indigenous women fill Bolivia's frontlines fighting wildfires | Context by TRF

  https://www.context.news/climate-risks/indigenous-women-fill-bolivias-frontlines-fighting-wildfires

  SANTA CRUZ DE LA SIERRA, Bolivia - In the tiny farming villages of eastern Bolivia, Indigenous women turned firefighters are preparing for a wildfire season they fear will destroy the region's dry forests and fields as it has in previous years. ... read full post

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  How America's prairie was nearly destroyed — and why it should be restored

  https://grist.org/economics/how-americas-prairie-was-nearly-destroyed-and-why-it-should-be-restored/

  In Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie, longtime Minnesota journalists Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty trace this staggering transformation.“ The Europeans who colonized North America in the 19th century transformed the continent’s hydrology as thoroughly as the glaciers,” they write. “But, remarkably, they did it in less than 100 years instead of tens of thousands.” ... read full post

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  ‘Big, beautiful bill’ could deal an ugly blow for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People efforts - ICT News

  https://ictnews.org/news/big-beautiful-bill-could-deal-an-ugly-blow-for-mmip-efforts/

  There’s been a flash point of change in the U.S. that has brought new recognition and reckoning with the high rates of missing and murdered Indigenous people. ... read full post

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  Palestinians forced to choose between being killed or starved, UN says

  https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/palestinians-forced-choose-between-being-killed-or-starved-un-says

  At least 140 people were killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza over the past 24 hours as the confrontation between Israel and Iran teetered on the precipice of an even more dangerous conflagration. ... read full post

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  Canada’s wildfire crisis is displacing First Nations at alarming rates - Grist

  https://grist.org/global-indigenous-affairs-desk/canadas-wildfire-crisis-is-displacing-first-nations-at-alarming-rates/

  Since mid-May, wildfires across Canada have burned 9.6 million acres, prompting the evacuation of approximately 40,000 people. According to Indigenous Services Canada, a government ministry, more than half of those evacuees are from First Nations communities, and nearly 34 tribes in almost every province are affected. The sudden rush of refugees has challenged the country’s crisis response infrastructure as people seek shelter and services in cities far from their homes, with little information of when they may return to their communities. ... read full post

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  ‘Not for you’: Israeli shelters exclude Palestinians as bombs rain down

  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/17/not-for-you-israeli-shelters-exclude-palestinians-as-bombs-rain-down

  When Iranian missiles began raining down on Israel, many residents scrambled for cover. Sirens wailed across the country as people rushed into bomb shelters. ... read full post

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  The US sold this tribe’s land illegally. It’s now the latest Native group to get its home back; The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation is the latest tribe in the Midwest to get some of its ancestral home

  https://www.wpr.org/news/midwest-indigenous-native-tribes-land-back-wisconsin

  There are more than 500 miles between the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation’s tribal reservation in northeastern Kansas and 1,500 acres of mostly prairie in northern Illinois. ... read full post

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  This Alaska Native fishing village was trying to power their town. Then came Trump's funding cuts.

  https://grist.org/indigenous/this-alaska-native-fishing-village-was-trying-to-power-their-town-then-came-trumps-funding-cuts/

  For the fewer than a hundred people that make up the entire population of Port Heiden, Alaska, fishing provides both a paycheck and a full dinner plate. Every summer, residents of the Alutiiq village set out on commercial boats to catch salmon swimming upstream in the nearby rivers of Bristol Bay. ... read full post

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  As confrontation with Iran escalates, Israel continues attacks on Gaza and West Bank

  https://mondoweiss.net/2025/06/as-confrontation-with-iran-escalates-israel-continues-attacks-on-gaza-and-west-bank/

  Alarm sirens and fire tails lighting the sky have become a daily occurrence in Israeli cities for the past four days, as Iran continues to send retaliatory waves of ballistic missiles following Israel’s initiation of war with the country. The Israeli attack on Iran also continues, with both sides pledging to escalate military confrontation. ... read full post

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  Trump cancels landmark Columbia River agreement with tribes, WA, OR

  https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/trump-cancels-landmark-columbia-river-agreement-with-tribes-wa-or/

  A sweeping Biden-era initiative to restore Columbia Basin salmon runs, boost tribal energy development and provide a pathway for dam removal on the Lower Snake River has been canceled by President Donald Trump. ... read full post

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  Pacific island nations launch plan for world’s first Indigenous-led ocean reserve

  https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/pacific-islands-launch-plan-for-worlds-first-indigenous-led-ocean-reserve/

  The governments of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu have announced their commitment to create a massive multinational Melanesian Ocean Reserve. If implemented as envisioned, the reserve would become the world’s first Indigenous-led ocean reserve, covering an area nearly as big as the Amazon Rainforest. ... read full post

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  Sea otters to get another chance in Oregon and Northern California - High Country News

  https://www.hcn.org/issues/57-6/sea-otters-to-get-another-chance-in-oregon-and-northern-california/

  If you could walk the ocean floor off the coast of Cape Arago in Oregon in the summer, you’d find yourself in the mysterious green depths of a forest of kelp. Look up, and you’d see sunlight filtering through the fronds waving in the current; look down, and you’d see the plants anchored to an ocean floor covered with life. But if you walked a little bit farther, you’d come to a barren clearing, no sign of kelp or much else — just a carpet of purple sea urchin, a creature that is devouring kelp at an alarming rate. ... read full post

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  The Heiltsuk Nation hails historic constitution: ‘We’re now the architects of certainty for ourselves.'

  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/12/canada-indigenous-heiltsuk-constitution

  Product of decades-long process aims to restore Heiltsuk’s system of coherent governance destroyed by colonial powers ... read full post

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  An Indigenous group tried to buy a $7K parcel from Detroit’s land bank to build a gathering space for the 30,000 Native people in Metro Detroit. Then the price jumped nearly 2,000%.

  https://www.bridgedetroit.com/thechi%c8%9fila-collective-detroit-indigenous-land-bank-property/

  When Jaike SpottedWolf saw empty lots on Tillman Street she envisioned a sacred space for Detroit’s Indigenous community — a powwow ground, smokehouse, garden, church, and gathering place. The Thečhíȟila Collective, which she co-founded to support community needs, hoped to buy the land for its listed price of $7,000. ... read full post

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  Comrade Sungmanitu from the CLN announces a working partnership with Unity Struggle Unity and The Clarion, and his goal to finance a research trip on the American Indian Movement (Goal reached)

  

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  ‘The premier is telling untruths to First Nations’ — a turbulent week in Ontario politics | The Narwhal

  https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-roundup-bill-5/

  The passage of the sweeping legislation is sure to inflame already-fraught tensions with First Nations. One of the most contested aspects is its creation of “special economic zones,” where the government can establish a zone, and then exempt certain companies or projects inside it from having to comply with certain provincial laws or regulations, or municipal bylaws. It also slashes several of Ontario’s endangered species protections and shelters the government from some lawsuits. ... read full post

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  On remote Indonesia karst outpost, Indigenous farmers fear the silence of the yams

  https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/on-remote-indonesia-karst-outpost-indigenous-farmers-fear-the-silence-of-the-yams/

  • The Banggai archipelago is a remote landscape of around 97% limestone karst east of Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island. ... read full post
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  Abbas pushes to disarm Palestinians in Lebanon - Electronic Intifada

  https://electronicintifada.net/content/abbas-pushes-disarm-palestinians-lebanon/50719

  On 30 April, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told Sky News Arabia that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas had raised the issue of disarming Palestinian factions in Lebanon’s refugee camps at the emergency Arab Summit in Cairo in early March. ... read full post

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  In California's largest landback deal, the Yurok Tribe reclaims sacred land around Klamath River

  https://grist.org/indigenous/in-californias-largest-landback-deal-the-yurok-tribe-reclaims-sacred-land-around-the-klamath-river/

  More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California, including the lower Blue Creek watershed, have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history. ... read full post

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  The transfer of a sacred site to a copper mine is delayed once again; A federal judge in Phoenix provides a reprieve for Oak Flat.

  https://grist.org/indigenous/oak-flat-gets-another-reprieve/

  A federal judge issued an injunction Friday that further delays the transfer of Oak Flat, an Indigenous religious site in Arizona, to a multi-national company that would make it one of the largest copper mines in the world. ... read full post

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  Inside the Hamas unit fighting Israeli-armed gangs that loot aid and facilitate displacement in Gaza

  https://mondoweiss.net/2025/06/inside-the-hamas-unit-fighting-israeli-armed-gangs-that-loot-aid-and-facilitate-displacement-in-gaza/

  The Israeli military is arming gangs to combat Hamas in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Thursday. The revelation comes to light after right-wing Israeli lawmaker Avigdor Lieberman accused Netanyahu on Israeli public broadcaster Kan yesterday of arming a gang of hundreds of men in Rafah as a counterweight to Hamas influence in the Strip. The Prime Minister’s office responded by saying that it was combating the Palestinian resistance group “in various ways, on the recommendation of all heads of the security establishment.” ... read full post

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