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All of us who care about preserving First Nations communities and their existence as nations should celebrate the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the "Indian Child Welfare Act." #saveicwa #protecticwa #icwa
The challenge to the law would have eliminated protections that would keep indigenous children in indigenous communities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/15/us/supreme-court-native-american-children-tribes.html #wearestillhere

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Apart from the constantly abysmal news items that threaten all or part of humanity's livelihood, like the #ClimateCrisis or the #WarInUkraine, there is an almost weekly new onslaught on our hard-earned (by our forbears) #CivilRights.

This week, #IndigenousRights of children, the #NativeAmericans, are on the line at #SCOTUS.

It is good that #Zoomers have joined the fight:

https://stranger.social/@indigenous_commentator/110487519793891287

#ProtectICWA #SaveICWA

#MMIW #MMIWG2S #MMIWG #MMIP #MMIM #MMIMB #ICWA #DecolonizationNotInclusion #SaveICWA #Reparations #InstanceBack

Dispossession of land means trying to disappear a whole people.

#LandBack #IndigenousMutualAid #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon #Decolonize #Indigenize #NDN

#MMIW
5712
The number of known incidents of missing & murdered Native American and Alaskan Native women of 2016. Only 116 cases were logged into the DOJ database.
67%
The number of cases between 2005-2009 that U.S. attorneys declined to prosecute of native community matters involving sexual abuse.
96%
On same reservations, the number of sexual violence against Native women commited by non-natives. Sources: National Institute of justice, Urban Indian, Health Institute

Via https://mamot.fr/@indigenous_commentator@stranger.social

MAY 5
MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGANOUS WOMEN DAY (MMIW)

Missing and murdered indigenous women and girls is an epidemic currently facing Native American, Alaska Native and First Nations peoples. Indigenous women are 6 TIMES MORE LIKELY to be murdered than non-Indigenous women and more than twice as likely to experience violence than any other demographic.

NO MORE STOLEN SISTERS

@adamrice @indigenous_commentator Maggie Blackhawk and Rebecca Nagle discussed the case back in November on Dahlia Lithwick's podcast. https://slate.com/podcasts/amicus/2022/11/icwa-is-also-about-land-and-american-colonialism

for those who like to get into the weeds here's a debrief from the Native Nations Law and Policy Center at UCLA https://www.google.com/search?q=brackeen+v+haaland&oq=brackeen&aqs=chrome.0.0i131i433i512j69i57j0i20i263i512l2j0i67i650j0i512l2j69i61.1727j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:6e115f73,vid:hcwt4TZWEug #icwa #saveICWA #indigenous #supremeCourt

Stop Stealing Native Kids.... Sign this petition to #SaveICWA #ProtectICWA

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/tell-a-friend/71508000

excerpt from the book, American Holocaust by David Stannard. #OurHolocaust in #OURHemisphere continues by the hand of the Whites, those they brought, those they invited and even our own #MestizoRelatives. #SaveICWA

#saveicwa

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