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#Indigenous #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeople #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanRights #TakeAction Send a message to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum: Respect Tribal sovereignty and be transparent about your plans for Native ancestral lands and waters. | Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/burgum-respect-tribal-sovereignty-and-be-transparent

🚨 Breaking: Trump admin challenges Native Americans' birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, citing outdated laws. Critics warn it undermines sovereignty & constitutional rights. A judge blocked it, but the fight continues.
#NativeAmericanRights #IndigenousPeoples #NativeSovereignty #BirthrightCitizenship #14thAmendment #IndianCitizenshipAct #ProtectNativeCommunities #ConstitutionalRights
Details: https://buff.ly/3EjQG6P
#NativeRights #14thAmendment #ProtectSovereignty

#Indigenous #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeople #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanRights #TakeAction Send your members of Congress a quick message now, urging them to protect Tribal Nations’ sovereign right to produce hemp. | Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/support-tribes-use-of-hemp/?link_id=1&can_id=ddbeab5dc1f0ec1370275b4de6d8c151&source=email-sign-to-protect-tribal-nations-sovereign-right-to-produce-hemp&email_referrer=email_2438598&email_subject=sign-to-protect-tribal-nations-sovereign-right-to-produce-hemp

#Indigenous #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeople #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanRights #Petition: A School Allegedly Forced a Native American Boy To Cut His Culturally Significant Hair
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/749/389/980/?z00m=33387702&redirectID=3435972515

Bringing the Ancestors Home

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews
Sept. 9, 2024

OKEMAH, #Oklahoma --"Les Williston, #Choctaw, spoke on living life with honor, during the Convening of the Four Winds gathering at the Phillip Deere Round House on Sunday, hosted by the
#Mvskoke family of the international rights leader Phillip Deere.

"'Your ancestors are always around,' Williston said, speaking of the #SacredPlaces along the rivers. Williston is entrusted with bringing the Chahta ancestors home."

[...]

"Williston said that all along the rivers, like the #KiamachiRiver in southeastern Oklahoma, there are sacred places, places that are the heart of the people, places where the council was built.

"Speaking on bringing the ancestors home at the Phillip Deer Roundhouse on Muscogee Creek land, Williston was joined by Native people from throughout the nation during the two-day weekend gathering. They shared the history of the struggle for #NativeAmericanRights, the hard-won victories of the 1970s, and the ongoing struggles to protect the water and rivers -- as the #racism, threats of #EminentDomain seizures, the violence of #ManCamps of the #OilAndGas industry, the desecration of #LithiumMining in burial places, and the manipulations of the United States government continue.
With gratitude to the Native women gathered here, Williston said he appreciates the strength of the women speaking and their leadership, for it is a #matriarchal culture.

"'It is important that the women take the lead,' he said. 'I hear the wisdom come from these ladies.' 'We should always listen to the women, our clan mothers and clan sisters.'"

Full article:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/bringing-ancestors-home.html

#Chahta #FourWinds #WaterIsLife #ConveningOfTheFourWinds #DefendTheSacred #HonorTheAncestors

#Indigenous #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeople #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanRights #TakeAction Urge Congress to Protect Sovereign Rights and Continue to Allow Access to Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve for the Miccosukee Tribe Now | Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/big-cypress/?link_id=1&can_id=ddbeab5dc1f0ec1370275b4de6d8c151&source=email-re-urge-congress-to-ensure-tribal-access-for-big-cypress-national-preserve-in-the-florida&email_referrer=email_2382533&email_subject=re-urge-congress-to-ensure-tribal-access-for-big-cypress-national-preserve-in-the-florida

#Indigenous #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeople #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanRights #TakeAction: Names of landmarks must promote respect and dignity of Native peoples | Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/name-landmarks-with-respect-and-dignity-of-native-peoples/?source=group-takeitbackorg&redirect=https://secure.actblue.com/donate/tib_names_places&link_id=3&can_id=ddbeab5dc1f0ec1370275b4de6d8c151&email_referrer=email_2346956&email_subject=reclaim-the-soul-of-america&refcodeEmailReferrer=email_2346956

#Indigenous #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeople #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanRights #TakeAction: Names of landmarks must promote respect and dignity of Native peoples | Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/name-landmarks-with-respect-and-dignity-of-native-peoples/?source=group-native-organizers-alliance&redirect=https://secure.actblue.com/donate/noa_acrpn_name_changes&link_id=2&can_id=ddbeab5dc1f0ec1370275b4de6d8c151&email_referrer=email_2346581&email_subject=take-action-the-use-of-offensive-place-names-perpetuates-discrimination&refcodeEmailReferrer=email_2346581

#Indigenous #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeople #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanRights #TakeAction Tell Congress: Stop any attempt to weaken the Antiquities Act now | Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/antiquities-act/?link_id=2&can_id=ddbeab5dc1f0ec1370275b4de6d8c151&source=email-re-stop-republicans-from-weakening-the-antiquities-act&email_referrer=email_2286964&email_subject=re-stop-republicans-from-weakening-the-antiquities-act

#Indigenous #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeople #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanRights Donate to College Fund
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#Indigenous #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeople #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanRights Sign the Petition to Demand Congress Protect Native Sacred Places Now! | Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/grijalva-and-heinrich-sacred-places-bills/?source=group-hd&referrer=group-hd&redirect=https://secure.actblue.com/donate/hdc_sacred_spaces&link_id=2&can_id=ddbeab5dc1f0ec1370275b4de6d8c151&email_referrer=email_2155509&email_subject=sovereignty-and-sacred-places&refcodeEmailReferrer=email_2155509

As #NewYork Officials Push #CleanHydrogen Project, #IndigenousNation Sees a Threat to Its Land

The #Tonawanda #Seneca see the industrial development next door as a threat to the woods they depend on for game and medicines, and the failure of the company and permitting agencies to consult them as another assault on their treaty rights.

By Nicholas Kusnetz
November 22, 2023

"When Chief Roger Hill speaks about the clean energy project going up along the border of the Tonawanda Indian Reservation, he turns quickly to the past. Hill’s Seneca ancestors once controlled a large territory across the rolling, wooded hills in what is now western New York, but most of their lands were taken through a series of treaties that shrank the reservation to its current size.

"The territory’s borders have remained unchanged for a century-and-half, but Hill says that a new #HydrogenFuel plant being erected about 2,000 feet beyond them is now threatening his nation’s way of life.

"'This is all we have, so this is why we’re so adamant in protecting the last piece of land,” said Hill, who sits on the council of chiefs for the Tonawanda Seneca Nation. 'We want that there for our children, our grandchildren, their children, our great-grandchildren.'

"With backing from state and local government, a company called Plug Power is building a project that will use zero-emissions electricity to produce hydrogen, a clean-burning fuel that could replace oil and gas in heavy-duty trucks and equipment.

"The plant would produce 74 tons of hydrogen per day and could help New York meet ambitious targets to phase-out fossil fuels. The Biden administration has also set a goal to produce millions of tons of clean hydrogen annually by the end of the decade as part of its plan to slash the nation’s climate pollution."

#FirstNations #GreenWashing #RespectTheTreaties
#NativeAmericanRights
#CulturalGenocide
#EnvironmentalRacism

Dirty Water and Dead Rice: The Cost of the #CleanEnergy Transition in Rural #Minnesota

#Mining the critical minerals needed for electric vehicle (#EV) #batteries could threaten local water supply and #IndigenousCulture.

By Karina Atkins
November 21, 2023

"More than 250 years ago, the #Ojibwe people, one of the largest Indigenous populations in North America, received a prophecy to migrate westward until they reached the land where food grows on water.
When the #MilleLacsBand of Ojibwe encountered wild rice in north-central Minnesota, they knew they found their new home. Rice harvesting has been a cornerstone of Ojibwe culture ever since.

"Today, mining exploration company #TalonMetals, also has its sights set on Minnesota. Some of the world’s richest high-grade #nickel and #copper deposits are thousands of feet below the state colloquially known as 'the land of 10,000 lakes.'

"Talon seeks to construct a mine in the rural town of Tamarack, which it says will be integral to building the nation’s domestic supply of materials necessary for a clean energy transition.

"Nickel and copper are key components of rechargeable #lithium ion (#LION) batteries that are widely used for low-emission technologies like electric vehicles (EVs). The company already has an agreement to supply #Tesla with nickel from its proposed mine, potentially bringing hundreds of unionized mining jobs to this rural area.

"The federal government has also recognized nickel and copper as 'essential to national defense,' adding them to the U.S. critical minerals list in 2022 and 2023, respectively. And, this September, the Department of Defense awarded Talon a $20.1 million matching grant to continue searching for deposits throughout the #LakeSuperior region.

"However, #SulfideMining, the type that would happen at Tamarack, has a poor #environmental track record. The Mille Lacs Band and local #environmentalists warn that it could #contaminate nearby #lakes, #streams and #wetlands, threatening the vitality of wild rice and local water supply down the #MississippiRiver.

"As the U.S. strives to be a leader in clean energy transition, the #TamarackProject encapsulates both the promise and challenges that lie ahead.

"The Dangers of Sulfide Mining

"Kelly Applegate, the commissioner of natural resources for the Mille Lacs Band, was shocked when he first saw deep earth imaging of nickel-copper deposits beneath his tribal land in the late 1990s.

A study from the U.S. Geological Survey suggested that the Lake Superior region could have deposits as lucrative as high-yield mines in Canada and Russia.
'Oh my gosh, look at these mineral deposits that may one day be sought out,' he recalls thinking to himself.

"Two decades later, Talon Metals, a mining company founded by former Canadian venture #capitalists and based in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), applied for a permit with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to create the Tamarack Project just over a mile away from the closest Mille Lacs Band community. "

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21112023/talon-metals-tamarack-minnesota-copper-nickel-mining-wild-rice-water/

#WaterIsLife #WildRice #Greenwashing #FirstNations
#NativeAmericanRights
#CulturalGenocide
#EnvironmentalRacism #CorporateColonialism

The #Tonawanda #Seneca Nation’s Fight to Protect the #BigWoods and stop STAMP

By Margaret Wooster (WNY Environmental Alliance) with Sarah Howard (Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation + Allies of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation) June 16, 2023

"One of Western #NewYork’s greatest treasures is a 20,000-acre #wetland-#grassland complex located mainly in the Town of Alabama, and locally known as 'Alabama Swamp.' It is also known as the Sixth Great Lake, a glacial lake now largely underground but surfacing in the plentiful streams and pools that make this watery landscape essential to the many reptiles, amphibians, mammals and birds who live or pass through, especially during spring migration.

"This area is also home to the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, a federally recognized Nation and part of the #HaudenosauneeConfederacy. The extraordinary #biodiversity of this area is in large part a testament to their ongoing #stewardship and reciprocal relationship with the more-than-human beings who also call this place home.

"But now, this place, and the Tonawanda Seneca Nation itself, faces an existential threat to their well-being. The #GeneseeCounty Economic Development Center (#GCEDC) has purchased 1,260 acres of habitat and farmland to build a Science and Technology Advanced Manufacturing Park (#STAMP) adjacent to the Nation’s territory. The site is also located within a few miles of multiple state and federally protected areas, including the #Iroquois National #Wildlife Refuge and the John White Wildlife Management Area.

"The STAMP plan capitalizes on federal and state subsidies for #microchip fabrication. To date, however, its only tenant is Plug Power, a #HydrogenFuelCell manufacturer whose product will have to be trucked many miles to market, undermining its justification as 'green power.'

"Two other possible developers – semiconductor producer #EdwardsVacuum and the warehouse developer #ScannellProject – would pave or build over the site’s northern 600-plus acres and bring an extra 140 #cars and #diesel trucks per hour up the narrow country road that leads to the refuge and through the Nation.

"However, the Tonawanda Seneca Nation and their allies, including other local residents and numerous environmental organizations, are fighting back against this industrial development. In February [2023], the GCEDC applied for a 'Full Campus Incidental Take Permit' that would allow them to remove habitat for #endangered and threatened #wildlife species known to occupy the site, including the #ShortEaredOwl and the #NorthernHarrierHawk. In response to the hundreds of letters it received from the public about this permit, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) required the GCEDC to hold a public hearing, which took place on May 11 in the town of Basom.

"More than 185 people attended the hearing. All 49 who spoke were opposed to the permit and the majority expressed opposition to the entire STAMP project. Speaking in opposition were numerous members of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, including titleholders, as well as allies from groups including the Buffalo Niagara #Waterkeeper, #SierraClub, #SaveOntarioShores, SUNY ESF, University of Rochester, Western New York Environmental Alliance and the #CleanAirCoalition of Western New York. In the words of Tonawanda Seneca Nation Sub-Chief Scott Logan (Bear Clan), 'If this permit were to be granted, it would be an immense injustice to #MotherEarth. And as a #Haudenosaunee person, and all the Haudenosaunee People in here, that is our birthright. It is our, what we are here for, is to protect the earth. And the STAMP Project goes a hundred percent against what we are — what we’re all about.'

"The STAMP site is located immediately adjacent to the Nation’s present-day reservation boundaries. Indeed, the most intensive manufacturing will be located along the project’s border with the Nation. However, as their Council of Chiefs has repeatedly stated in public comment letters and letters to agencies responsible for granting permits sought by the developers, the project’s approval process has continuously and egregiously undermined the Nation’s #sovereignty. In violation of their status as a federally recognized #TribalNation, the Tonawanda Band of Seneca’s Council of Chiefs – their traditional governance structure – has not been afforded a robust consultation process in decision-making about the project. Instead, opportunities for consultation have been perfunctory at best, and have focused almost exclusively on mitigation.

"In their official letter to the NYDEC regarding the proposed Part 182 Take Permit (mentioned above), the Nation’s Council of Chiefs wrote that, 'The Tonawanda Seneca Nation opposes this habitat destruction and would directly be impacted by it. The permit would allow for unmitigated incidental take on Nation lands when, inevitably, increased human presence, noise, excavation, light and traffic would disturb these species and turn them away… We do not want our Territory, people or future generations to be burdened by the negative impacts of these projects. This is a human rights issue for the Tonawanda Seneca Nation and the Haudenosaunee, who would bear a disproportionate burden from the industrialization of the land at STAMP.'

"The Council of Chiefs has demanded that a supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) be carried out to assess the possible impacts on the Nation, its culture and its environment; to date there has been no such study and the 2012 STAMP EIS (which did not analyze impacts on the nation) is badly outdated."

https://globaljusticeecology.org/tonawanda-seneca-nation/

#ForestDefenders #SenecaNation #FirstNations #NativeAmericanRights #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #Greenwashing #HydrogenPower

Prosecutors add #HateCrime allegations in shooting over Spanish #conquistador statue

AP, November 3, 2023

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — "State prosecutors added hate-crime allegations Thursday to charges of attempted murder against a New Mexico man accused in the shooting of a #NativeAmerican #activist amid confrontations about aborted plans to reinstall a statue of a Spanish conquistador in public, at a court hearing Thursday in northern New Mexico.

"Defendant Ryan David Martinez pleaded not guilty to all charges at the arraignment overseen by a district court judge from a courthouse in TierraAmarilla.

"Assistant District Attorney Tony Long indicated that his office will pursue sentence enhancements based on the use of a firearm and try to prove that the shooting was motivated by bias against a particular social group.

"Martinez was arrested on Sept. 28 after chaos erupted and a single shot was fired at an outdoor gathering in Española over canceled plans to install a bronze likeness of conquistador Juan de #Oñate, who is both revered and reviled for his role in establishing early settlements along the Upper Rio Grande starting in 1598.

"The shooting severely wounded #JacobJohns, of Spokane, Washington, a well-traveled #activist for #environmental causes and an advocate for #NativeAmericanRights who is of #Hopi and Akimel #Oodham tribal descent.

"He had joined other advocates for Native American rights as they celebrated with song, prayer and speeches the county's decision not to install the statue that day.

"Under state law, a hate-crime sentence enhancement could extend prison time by up to a year. The firearm-related enhancements could add up to eight years in prison.

"Initial felony charges against Martinez carry possible sentences of up to 16 years and six months in prison, along with possible fines and parole, Long told the court. A misdemeanor charge of reckless driving could add up to 90 days in prison.

"State District Court Judge Jason Lidyard scheduled a jury trial for May 2024. He has ordered that Martinez remain in jail pending trial."

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/03/prosecutors-add-hate-crime-allegations-in-shooting-over-spanish-conquistador-statue/71438113007/

#ClimateActivist #ClimateJustice #IndigenousActivists #NewMexico #MAGA #HateCrimes