Gathering of Nations starts tomorrow, runs through Saturday. It is a spectacular event, with the Grand Entry, dance/drum competition, the horse & rider parade, vendors, music/performers on an outside stage, etc. https://youtu.be/Lt50A_5f020?si=ff914G8R3J3Rcf5L
#Navajo advocates say prez’s approval of uranium transport, #Trump coal order feels like a betrayal https://sourcenm.com/2025/04/21/navajo-advocates-say-prezs-approval-of-uranium-transport-trump-coal-order-feels-like-a-betrayal/ #NewMexico #Indigenous #NativeAmerican
I am a history teacher from Switzerland trying to find (text) books about American Native history suitable for teenagers. I am not the right person to put together all the different pieces of history I find online. This there anything, Native people would recommend?
(Please repost for wider spread)
#NativeAmerican #TurtleIsland #FirstNation
#handsoff2025 Protest today!!!!! Join up with others to say #HandsOff our democracy and fight for your freedom!!!! Find Your LOCAL PROTEST HERE; https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
The Eugenics Movement and racist beliefs led to the involuntary sterilization of women of color in the United States in the twentieth century.
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Today in Labor History April 18, 1977: Native American activist Leonard Peltier was found guilty of murdering two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation. However, he was actually framed by undercover FBI agents who were conducting counterintelligence on the reservation. During the trial, some of the government’s own witnesses testified that Peltier wasn’t even present at the scene of the killings. In 2017, President Obama denied Peltier's application for clemency. He was still in prison in 2025 and his health has deteriored. On June 7, 2022, The UN Human Rights Council's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that Peltier’s imprisonment violates the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Biden, as one of his final acts as president, commuted his sentence to indefinite house arrest. In February 2025, he was released and transferred to the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota.
Breaking News! (via @bsnorrell.blogspot.com )
Feds Charge Ahead with Plan to Destroy #OakFlat
#SupremeCourt poised to consider #ApacheStronghold’s appeal
By Becket Law, Censored News, April 17, 2025
WASHINGTON – "The U.S. government today announced that it is forging ahead with plans to transfer a #NativeAmerican #SacredSite to a multinational mining giant in as few as 60 days, despite a
federal lawsuit challenging the action as illegal.
"In Apache Stronghold v. United States, Apache Stronghold—a coalition of #Apaches, other Native peoples, and non-Native allies—sued to stop the federal government from transferring Oak Flat to
Resolution Copper, a Chinese-owned mining company that plans to turn the site into a massive mining crater, ending Apache religious practices forever.
"The government has announced it will now forge ahead with the transfer even though the case is currently under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Since time immemorial, #WesternApaches and other Native peoples have gathered at Oak Flat, outside of present-day #SuperiorAZ, for sacred religious ceremonies that cannot take place anywhere else. Known in Apache as Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, Oak Flat is listed in the #NationalRegisterOfHistoricPlaces and has been protected from #mining and other harmful practices for decades.
These protections were targeted in December 2014 when a last-minute provision was slipped into a must-pass defense bill [#NDAA] authorizing the transfer of Oak Flat to the Resolution Copper company.
"#ResolutionCopper now plans to turn the sacred site into a two-mile-wide and 1,100-foot-deep crater.
"The majority owner of Resolution Copper, Rio Tinto, sparked international outrage when it deliberately destroyed 46,000-year-old Indigenous rock shelters at one of Australia’s most significant cultural sites.
" 'The feds are barreling ahead to give Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, even as the Supreme Court considers whether to hear the case,' said Luke Goodrich, vice president and senior counsel at Becket. 'This makes the stakes crystal clear: if the Court doesn’t act now, Oak Flat could be transferred and destroyed before justice can be served.' "
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04/feds-charge-ahead-with-plan-to-destroy.html
#SaveOakFlat #ChichilBiłdagoteel #CorporateColonialism #ProtectOakFlat #ReaderSupportedNews #SCOTUS #DefendTheSacred #CopperMine
#WaterIsLife #ResolutionCopper #RioTinto #RecycleCopper #CulturalGenocide #NoMiningWithoutConsent #RecycleCopper #TontoNationalForest
Gallup has an amazing selection of Native American art, with much lower prices than other places in New Mexico.
Oakland-based Chef Crystal Wahpepah Representing!
#Culture #Politics #Economics #NativeAmerican #InterTribal #IndigenousFood #CulinaryArt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd3qTHPVUdg
Something good happened today. I got my vinyl pressing of Dead Pioneer’s new record which just dropped, “Po$t American.”
It’s so good. I got the pink splatter. It was a gift from my family.
The liner notes appear on a giant colorful poster that I’m gonna have to hang up.
Take a listen to a minute of it here, with some overlays of the poster.
Then get one for yourself:
https://deadpioneers.bandcamp.com/album/po-t-american
“The Education Dept has withdrawn from an agreement to address disparities in discipline for #NativeAmerican students at a South Dakota school system, saying it was wrongly rooted in efforts to promote diversity, equity & inclusion” #racism
https://apnews.com/article/school-civil-rights-dei-dakota-a98f3f943c6e580b8044c602e5580f38
Robert E Lee strolled into Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, looked around, and then stared at Ely
He said "I am glad to see one real American here"
(probably as a dunk on everyone else in the room rather than a compliment to Ely)
Ely shook his hand and said "We are all Americans"
(as in: *now* you are, traitor Bob 
)
there's something deep about the fact the Confederate Surrender Terms reuniting the #USA were authored by, in the handwriting of, a #NativeAmerican
Apr 9 Confederate Surrender Day trivia:
The Terms of Surrender were drafted at Appomattox by Donehogawa aka Ely Parker
Lawyer Engineer Brigadier General
Wolf Clan Seneca Nation
In 1858 Ely went to Galena Illinois to supervise the construction of the US Customs Bldg. He met a financially struggling alcoholic recently rejected for a post in St. Louis, minding the family business there:
Ulysses S Grant
They became good friends
#Indigenous "#ReMattering": A conversation with #DavidShaneLowry, PhD
"Sheeva Azma talks to Dr. David Shane Lowry about his work magnifying #IndigenousPerspectives from an anthropological perspective, including in science and technology, and science communication.
"Dr. Lowry serves on the faculty at the University of Southern Maine. He earned his BS from MIT and both Master’s and PhD from UNC Chapel Hill, all in anthropology. He is an anthropologist and member (citizen) of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He grew up in the #Lumbee community in Robeson County, North Carolina. In 2021-22, he was Distinguished Fellow in #NativeAmerican Studies at MIT, where he led a new conversation at MIT about the responsibilities of MIT (and science/technology education, more generally) in the theft of American Indian land and the dismantling of American Indian health and community. From 2022 to 2023, he was Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University. At USM, Dr. Lowry runs the #IndigenousRelationshipsLab as a place for and commitment to #justice and re-mattering of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples from #Maine, to #Massachusetts, to #NorthCarolina. David writes and hosts conversations on InTrust [link below]."
Watch video [includes transcript]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-mqEXlJmoE
#IndigenousPeoplesTrust link:
https://indigenouspeoplestrust.org.
#LandBack #LandGrabs #Colonialism #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanScholars
Deleting History in Real Time
Intentionally Induced Historical Amnesia
#InRangeTV #History #US #NativeAmerican #ColonialViolence #Project2025 #Trans #LGBTQ #Trump #TrumpRegime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqLF7Jv4k-Q
April Mutual Aid. Goes towards bills, medical, personal care, and May rent. If you want to just support a disabled Native artist share or donate. Also have my etsy where I sell my art.
PayPal.me/kiagbear
Cashapp $kiagbear
Venmo kiagbear https://ko-fi.com/mahtheyzhawey
My etsy where I sell my art
https://www.etsy.com/shop/MahtheyzhaweyArts
My link
where I have wishlists for medical stuff and other things.
https://linktr.ee/mahtheyzhawey
#lesficfri
*** SKIN ***
“I could barely breathe while devouring this.”
https://www.tiffanyetaylor.com/the-manor
#darkurbanfantasy #paranormal #shapeshifters #witches #savingtheworld #nativeamerican #interracialrelationship #novella #butchfemme #lesfic #sapphicbooks #bookstodon #writingcommunity #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks
Trump pardoned (commuted, technically) another financial fraudster: Jason Galanis, who testified against Hunter Biden while serving a 14 year sentence for defrauding a bunch of native americans out of tens of millions of dollars.
