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"Immigrant advocates have decried the project as resembling concentration camps; Native communities warn that sacred lands are being destroyed."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/alligator-alcatraz-trump/ #AligatorAlcatraz #Trump #Republicans #Immigration #LawEnforcement #NativeAmericans
The Role of Women in #Iroquois Society
May 26, 2024
Learn about the #matrilineal structure and the influential roles women play in governance and daily life.
"Women in Iroquois society held significant power and influence, a reflection of the matrilineal structure of their clans. This matrilineal system meant that lineage and inheritance were passed down through the mother’s line, which was relatively unique among Native American cultures.
Political Influence
"Iroquois women had a decisive role in the governance of their communities. #ClanMothers, the eldest women in the clan, had the authority to nominate and depose the male leaders, or #sachems, who represented their clans in the Grand Council. These women were highly respected and played a key role in ensuring that the leaders acted in the best interests of the people."
Read more:
https://www.inkg.org/the-role-of-women-in-iroquois-society/
Indigenous artists in Canada and USA, applications are open until July 10 for the Emerging Native Arts Grant. The award pays $15,000. Go get it! https://walkeryoungbird.org/emerging-native-arts #IndigenousCreatives #Indigedon #Indigenous #NativeAmericans
#NativeAmerican leaders blast construction of #Florida’s ‘#AlligatorAlcatraz’ on land they call sacred
By KATE PAYNE
Updated 5:57 PM EDT, June 26, 2025
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — "Florida Republican Gov. #RonDeSantis’ administration is racing ahead with construction of a makeshift immigration detention facility at an airstrip in the Everglades over the opposition of Native American leaders who consider the area their sacred #AncestralHomelands.
"A string of portable generators and dump trucks loaded with fill dirt streamed into the site on Thursday, according to #activist Jessica Namath, who witnessed the activity. The state is plowing ahead with building a compound of heavy-duty tents, trailers and other temporary buildings at the Miami Dade County-owned airfield located in the #BigCypressNationalPreserve, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) west of downtown Miami.
"A spokesperson for the Florida Division of Emergency Management, which is helping lead the project, did not respond to requests for comment.
"State officials have characterized the site as an ideal place to hold #migrants saying there’s 'not much' there other than pythons and alligators.
"#Indigenous leaders dispute that and are condemning the state’s plans to build what’s been dubbed 'Alligator Alcatraz' on their homelands. #NativeAmericans can trace their roots to the area back thousands of years.
"For generations, the sweeping wetlands of what is now South Florida have been home to Native peoples who today make up the #MiccosukeeTribe of Indians of Florida and the #SeminoleTribe of Florida, as well as the #SeminoleNation of Oklahoma.
" 'Rather than Miccosukee homelands being an uninhabited wasteland for alligators and pythons, as some have suggested, the Big Cypress is the Tribe’s traditional homelands. The landscape has protected the #Miccosukee and Seminole people for generations,' Miccosukee Chairman Talbert Cypress wrote in a statement on social media.
"There are 15 remaining traditional Miccosukee and #Seminole villages in Big Cypress, as well as ceremonial and burial grounds and other gathering sites, Cypress testified before Congress in 2024.
" 'We live here. Our ancestors fought and died here. They are buried here,' he said.
The Big Cypress is part of us, and we are a part of it.'
"Garrett Stuart, who lives about 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) from the site, described the crystal clear waters, open prairies and lush tree islands of Big Cypress as teeming with life.
" 'Hearing the arguments of the frogs in the water, you know? And listen to the grunt of the alligator. You’re hearing the call of that osprey flying by and listening to the crows chatting,' he said. 'It’s all just incredible.'
"Critics have condemned the #detention facility and what they call the state’s apparent reliance on alligators as a security measure as a cruel spectacle, while DeSantis and other state officials have defended it as part of Florida’s muscular efforts to carry out President Donald Trump’s #ImmigrationCrackdown.
#ImmigrationRaids #ICEKidnapping #ProtectTheGlades #NoAlligatorAlcatraz
#ICEDetentionCenter #ProtectTheSacred #BigCypressNationalPreserve
#StopAlligatorAlcatraz
#ICEACAB #StopDetentionCentersEverywhere
I know this area well, having spent some time with the #Seminole peoples when I was a youngster. It is beautiful, deadly, and environmentally sensitive!
#Protesters line highway in #FloridaEverglades to oppose ‘#AlligatorAlcatraz’
By MAKIYA SEMINERA
Updated 8:40 PM EDT, June 28, 2025
"A coalition of groups, ranging from #EnvironmentalActivists to #NativeAmericans advocating for their ancestral homelands, converged outside an airstrip in the Florida #Everglades Saturday to protest the imminent construction of an immigrant detention center.
"Hundreds of protesters lined part of U.S. #Highway41 that slices through the marshy Everglades — also known as #TamiamiTrail — as dump trucks hauling materials lumbered into the airfield. Cars passing by honked in support as protesters waved signs calling for the protection of the expansive preserve that is home to a few Native tribes and several #EndangeredAnimal species.
"Christopher McVoy, an ecologist, said he saw a steady stream of trucks entering the site while he protested for hours. #EnvironmentalDegradation was a big reason why he came out Saturday. But as a South Florida city commissioner, he said concerns over #ImmigrationRaids in his city also fueled his opposition."
#ProtectTheGlades #NoAlligatorAlcatraz #ICEDetentionCenter #SeminoleTribe #ProtectTheSacred #MiccosukeeTribe #BigCypressNationalPreserve #StopAlligatorAlcatraz #ICEACAB #StopDetentionCentersEverywhere
Native American children in Washington state are far more likely to be taken from their parents and placed in foster care than any other kids. That rate has remained stubbornly high, despite policy efforts to keep more families together.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/native-children-in-wa-disproportionately-taken-from-families
#KUOW #News #NativeAmericans #Health #Health #KidsAndParenting
Los nativos de Norteamérica doblaban árboles jóvenes para usarlos como hitos en los caminos. 📷Knowandtell #nativosamericanos #nativeamericans
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The word #holocaust creates #victimisation. A flag many people feel it gives them a #right to #protection. In what sense is this group different from #victims of #slavery, #countrymen of #ISIS, #nativeamericans ? Those groups are not protected at all. On the contrary. In what sense are #JewishAmericans different? As long as the #USgovernement does not force the #Israelis to stop the #genocide in #Gaza, and #Jewishamericans don't rebel against #trump, they may face a tough time to come.
Beyoncé faces backlash after wearing shirt with anti-Indigenous language https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/29/beyonce-shirt-anti-indigenous-language #NativeAmericans #USmilitary #USpolitics #Beyoncé #Culture #USnews #Music
I caught this on TV last week...
Saving Seeds: #NorthDakota Tribe Preserves #TraditionalFarming Practices
June 22, 2025
"America’s native population has long faced health disparities. Many tribes rely on government rationed food, which is often highly processed, and have limited access to fresh produce. Researchers say several factors, including food, contribute to a shorter life expectancy for American Indians and #AlaskaNatives. A woman living on the North Dakota’s #FortBerthold Reservation is working to change that. Special correspondent Joie Chen meets Dr. Ruth De La Cruz and learns how she’s helping lead a program that’s teaching a new generation to live off the land and preserving traditional farming practices."
Source:
https://www.matteroffact.tv/saving-seeds-north-dakota-tribe-preserves-traditional-farming-practices/
#SolarPunkSunday #FoodSovereignty #FoodSecurity #NativeAmericans #MHANation
#NorthDakota tribe goes back to its roots with a massive greenhouse operation
By The Associated Press
Published: Jul. 6, 2024 at 2:17 PM EDT
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — "A #NativeAmerican tribe in North Dakota will soon grow lettuce in a giant greenhouse complex that when fully completed will be among the country’s largest, enabling the tribe to grow much of its own food decades after a federal #dam flooded the land where they had cultivated corn, beans and other crops for millennia.
"Work is ongoing on the #Mandan, #Hidatsa and #Arikara Nation’s 3.3-acre greenhouse that will make up most of the #NativeGreenGrow operation’s initial phase. However, enough of the structure will be completed this summer to start growing leafy greens and other crops such as tomatoes and strawberries.
" 'We’re the first farmers of this land,' Tribal Chairman #MarkFox said. 'We once were part of an aboriginal trade center for thousands and thousands of years because we grew crops — corn, beans, squash, watermelons — all these things at massive levels, so all the tribes depended on us greatly as part of the aboriginal trade system.'
"The tribe will spend roughly $76 million on the initial phase, which also will include a warehouse and other facilities near the tiny town of Parshall. It plans to add to the growing space in the coming years, eventually totaling about 14.5 acres, which officials say would make it one of the world’s largest facilities of its type.
"The initial greenhouse will have enough glass to cover the equivalent of seven football fields.
"The tribe’s fertile land along the #MissouriRiver was inundated in the mid-1950s when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the #GarrisonDam, which created #LakeSakakawea.
"Getting fresh produce has long been a challenge in the area of western North Dakota where the tribe is based, on the #FortBerthold Indian Reservation. The rolling, rugged landscape — split by Lake Sakakawea — is a long drive from the state’s biggest cities, Bismarck and Fargo.
"That isolation makes the greenhouses all the more important, as they will enable the tribe to provide food to the roughly 8,300 people on the Fort Berthold reservation and to reservations elsewhere. The tribe also hopes to stock #FoodBanks that serve isolated and impoverished areas in the region, and plans to export its produce.
"Initially, the #MHANation expects to grow nearly 2 million pounds of food a year and for that to eventually increase to 12 to 15 million pounds annually. Fox said the operation’s first phase will create 30 to 35 jobs.
"The effort coincides with a national move to increase #FoodSovereignty among tribes."
#Beyoncé #BuffaloSoldiers #NativeAmericans #history
"A T-shirt worn by Beyoncé during a Juneteenth performance on her 'Cowboy Carter' tour has sparked a discussion over how Americans frame their history and caused a wave of criticism for the Houston-born superstar.
The T-shirt worn during a concert in Paris featured images of the Buffalo Soldiers, who belonged to Black U.S. Army units active during the late 1800s and early 1900s. On the back was a lengthy description of the soldiers that included 'their antagonists were the enemies of peace, order and settlement: warring Indians, bandits, cattle thieves, murderous gunmen, bootleggers, trespassers, and Mexican revolutionaries.'
Images of the shirt and videos of the performance are also featured on Beyoncé’s website.
As she prepares to return to the U.S. for performances in her hometown this weekend, fans and Indigenous influencers took to social media to criticize Beyoncé for wearing a shirt that frames Native Americans and Mexican revolutionaries as anything but the victims of American imperialism and for promoting anti-Indigenous language."
https://apnews.com/article/beyonce-buffalo-soldiers-controversy-9308cd020d6cabc8ec8ceac6057d8f0d
If this gets pushed to include the ability to revoke #citizenship retroactively, then it seems like the perfect time for #NativeAmericans to organize their tribes and seek that same revocation for anyone who is not #indigenous .
I have no idea if it would or could work to correct any current or past wrongs, but I would love to see these asswipes scramble to rethink their nonsense.
"The world should know what America has done. I was no more guilty than my co-defendants, and they were found not guilty by reason of self-defense, because the jury heard what was going on, and they said that should not be done to any American."
#NickEstes talks to a now free #LeonardPeltier 50 years on from the #PineRidge shootout #OTD in 1975
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/leonard-peltiers-story-isnt-over-yet
https://archive.ph/baicD
#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #AmericanIndianMovement #LeonardPeltierFree #politicalPrisoners #USpol
Eli Weasel: American Fool or American Hero
Eli and four friends built a new democracy on the Tankonsin Indian Reservation.
Are they heros? Are they fools?
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=18&id=270
#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#nativeamerican #nativeamericans #firstnation #firstnations
Educational Infographics – Sharing Some Of The Work Of Zachary Ammerman
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https://www.zacharyammerman.com/portfolio/infographics <-- shared infographic examples, including maps…
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[I do not know Zachry personally or professionally, but these examples of his work are TOO dang good not to share 😊 ]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #alldataisspatial #cartography #education #infographics #FirstNation #history #ancienthistory #StoryOfAmerica #USHistory #K12 #schools #designer #NativeAmericans #mestizo #culture #migration #geography
@ZacharyAmmerman
Ayo Rock Formations in Santa Cruz, Aruba
The Ayo Rock Formations stand out on the island of Aruba as a unique arrangement of giant boulders with interesting crawl spaces to explore.#cactus #petroglyphs #nativeamericans #rockformations #rocks #section-Atlas
Ayo Rock Formations
"Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma are still fighting for full citizenship in the tribal nations that once held their ancestors in bondage.
Several tribes practiced slavery, and five in Oklahoma—The Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Muscogee nations—signed reconstruction treaties with the U.S. in 1866 abolishing it three years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. They granted the formerly enslaved, known commonly as Freedmen, citizenship within their respective tribes.
Only one of those tribes, the Cherokee Nation, continues to fully grant the rights of citizenship.
For descendants of people who were enslaved by tribal nations, Juneteenth is both a celebration of freedom for people of African descent and a reminder of their struggle to be fully embraced by the Indigenous communities with whom they share history and in many cases ancestry.
Traditionally, Freedmen in the Muscogee Nation celebrate emancipation day on August 4, marking when the tribe’s council drew up a law to declare them free, said Rhonda Grayson, the founder and director of the Oklahoma Indian Territory Museum of Black Creek Freedmen History.
She traces her lineage to formerly enslaved people listed on a 1906 U.S. census of Native Americans who had been forcibly removed to Oklahoma. Known as the Dawes Rolls, the census created two lists – those who appeared Native and those who appeared Black. Those with African ancestry were put on the Freedmen rolls, although many also had Native ancestry.
Last week, the Muscogee Nation Supreme Court heard arguments in a case brought by Grayson and Jeff Kennedy, who are fighting for their citizenship rights and recognition within the Muscogee Nation.
'Our ancestors were Muscogee people of African descent,' said Damario Solomon-Simmons, an attorney representing Grayson and Kennedy whose ancestor was also a Freedmen in the tribe. 'We were transformed into ‘Freedmen’ by the Dawes Commission."
Their ancestors were also forced on the Trail of Tears, and after the Civil War they were granted citizenship and served in the tribe’s legislative bodies, Kennedy said.
'We believe that the (Muscogee) Nation would not be what it is today without the bloodshed and tears of those African people,' he said."
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