by John Ahni Schertow, reposted with permission from Intercontinental Cry
This month, the Yurok Tribal Council voted unanimously in favor of a resolution establishing the rights of the Klamath River.
The epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women continues to globally escalate, as missing persons cases, lack of recognition of violence against Indigenous women, and a critical lack of institutional documentation of violence continue to under-represent the full scope of abuse against Indigenous women and girls.
On the evening of March 18, 2019, Indigenous leader Sergio Rojas Ortiz was assassinated in his residence in Salitre de Buenos Aires, part of the Puntarenas province, after being shot multiple times.
Los Pueblos Indígenas de todo el mundo estarán viajando a la ciudad de Nueva York para el Foro Permanente de la Organización Naciones Unidas sobre Cuestiones Indígenas del 16 de al 27 de abril. Aunque la mayoría de nosotros no podemos llegar a Nueva York, nuestras voces deben ser escuchadas. Nuestro objetivo es crear una tormenta de actividad en línea durante el Foro Permanente para que se escuchen las voces Indígenas en todas partes.
Nestled amongst the beauty of Boston’s historic coastline lies an intensifying disagreement over Long Island, one of the 34 islands comprising Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park, part of the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, and, less well known, the site of a former concentration camp and Native burial ground.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.