Boarding School Survivors
The boarding school era was a time in history in which the U.S., Canadian, and Australian governments kidnapped Indigenous children from their families, sending them to boarding schools often run by the Catholic Church. In these “schools” children were physically and sexually abused, and forced to abandon their native languages, culture, and ways of life. Aiming to “civilize” and “Americanize” Indigenous children, “Kill the Indian, save the man,” was a famous quote delivered by R.H. Pratt, referring to the purpose of the Carlisle Indian boarding school. Many children died while in the care of these schools, resulting in the discovery of thousands of graves on or near the sites of hundreds of schools throughout the United States and Canada. The search for more graves continues. #orangeshirtday #everychildmatters
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NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN BOARDING SCHOOL HEALING COALITIONNY TIMESTIME MAGAZINE
no dapl
Founded and operated by the people of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (SRST),the NO DAPL movement is based on the Standing Rock reservation in South and North Dakota in opposition of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). DAPL is a 1,172 mile underground pipeline owned and operated by Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) which runs through the rightful treaty territory and sacred ancestral homelands of the Lakota. After ETP desecrated a number of sacred burial sites belonging to the Tribe, an international call for resistance was put out by members of the SRST, which resulted in a gathering of thousands of Indigenous and non-Indigenous allies in solidarity and support for the SRST in their fight against DAPL. #nodapl
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NDN COLLECTIVEEARTH JUSTICETHE WATER PROTECTOR LEGAL COLLECTIVE
Land back
The LANDBACK movement is an intertribal call to action for the return of stolen Indigenous land, culture, and rights. While LANDBACK primarily focuses on the rematriation of land to Indigenous peoples, it is not exclusive to physical property - it is synonymous with the revitalization of languages, traditional knowledge, and spiritual practices. The LANDBACK movement is also intertwined with the demand for safety, protection, and justice for Indigenous peoples, also known as the MMIP movement. Some avenues for LANDBACK include private donation of land, donation of funds to purchase land, real rent, and through litigation for aboriginal title claims. #landback
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LAKOTA NATION VS UNITED STATES FILMLANDBACK.ORGINDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION
FREE LEONARD PELTIER
Leonard Peltier is an Indigenous political prisoner from the Turtle Mountain Chippewa, Lakota, and Dakota nations. Peltier was wrongly accused and convicted of killing two federal agents in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975, resulting in a sentence of two consecutive life terms in prison for a crime he did not commit. Fierce efforts to free Peltier on behalf of Indigenous nations, organizations, and non-Native allies have steadily continued on for nearly five decades. Peltier is 79 years old and is currently imprisoned in the United States Penitentiary in Coleman, Florida. #freeleonardpeltier
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THE GUARDIANNDN COLLECTIVEA LETTER FROM LEONARD
Missing and murdered
indigenous peoples
The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples movement calls awareness to the extraordinarily disproportionate rates at which Indigenous peoples go missing and are murdered and/or sexually assaulted. The MMIP movement originated out of the MMIW movement, a call to awareness and a demand for safety for Indigenous women and girls. According to national statistics, one out of every two Native women will be sexually assaulted and Native are ten times more likely to go missing or be murdered than all other female non-Native demographics in the United States. The issue of MMIP is not exclusive to the US, with Native people in Canada, Australia, South America and Africa experiencing higher rates of violence and sexual assault. #mmiw #mmip
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US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SOVEREIGN BODIES INSTITUTE DATABASECOALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN
LIne 3 & line 5
Line 3 and Line 5 are tar sands oil pipelines owned and operated by Canadian oil giant, Enbridge. Both pipeline routes snake directly through Anishinaabe treaty territory in Minnesota, endangering the headwaters of the Mississippi and sacred wild rice beds, the ancestral food sources of the Anishinaabe. In 2022, dozens of Indigenous nations, organizations, and non-Native allies protested the operation of both pipelines in Minnesota and Washington DC, resulting in hundreds of arrests. The resistance against Line 3 and Line 5 continues in the courts with Indigenous peoples demanding a shutdown of both pipelines. #stopline3 #stopline5
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STOP LINE 3 AND LINE 5CBS NEWSBAD RIVER FILM