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![Alaska has 229 federally recognized tribes. A bill in the state legislature would obligate Alaska to recognize them too.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/02/GettyImages-172995869-400x300.jpg)
Proposed Alaska Legislation Would Recognize Existence of Tribes
Alaska has 229 federally recognized tribes. A bill in the state legislature would obligate Alaska to recognize them too.
![President Trump speaks during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Otay Mesa, California, on September 18, 2019.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/02/2020_0211-trump-border-400x300.jpg)
Border Officials Threaten to Destroy Native Burial Grounds to Build Trump’s Wall
The wall could damage or destroy as many as 22 sites on federal land near the Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation.
![Movement Memos with Kelly Hayes](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/02/movement-memos-kelly-hayes-400x300.jpg)
Clinging to Normalcy Is Killing Us. How Do We Break Free?
Kelly Hayes talks with organizer Aly Wane about how to energize our communities in Truthout's podcast “Movement Memos.”
![View of the portraits of the victims of the January 25, 2019, dam collapse during a tribute in Brumadinho, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, on January 25, 2020, to mark one year since the disaster which killed 259 people.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/02/GettyImages-1196139515-400x300.jpg)
A Year After Brazil Dam Collapse, Communities Still Calling for Accountability
A grassroots movement is demanding justice for impacted communities one year after a devastating dam collapse.
![Native American protesters sit on the steps of Utah's Capitol building during a protest to protect the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante monuments](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/02/2020_0207-national-monutments-400x300.jpg)
Tribes Decry Trump’s Opening of National Monuments to Oil and Gas Development
The Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments will be opened for grazing, mining and fossil fuel development.
![Women take part in a lesson at the Siberian Yoshinkan Aikido Federation in Novosibirsk, Russia, March 30, 2016.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/02/2020_0206-aikido-russia-400x300.jpg)
Women Fight for Dignity and Survival in the Trump-Putin Era
In this era of assault on their rights, women are finding new ways to empower themselves.
![Three young women display a sign reading "NO DEAL," featuring Donald Trump with his face crossed out](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/02/2020_0205-israel-palestine-400x300.jpg)
The Israel-Palestine “Peace Deal” Is an Apartheid Proposal
U.S. corporate media fails to critically assess the “peace plan” proposed by the Trump administration.
![Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas holds a placard showing a series of maps of Palestine at the Arab League headquarters in the Egyptian capital Cairo on February 1, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/02/GettyImages-1197891600-400x300.jpg)
In Wake of Trump-Netanyahu Proposal, Palestinian Authority Cuts Ties With US
The plan allows Israel to continue settlements and annexation while leaving Palestinians with vague promises of a state.
![Students of Jamia Millia Islamia and local residents of Okhla protest against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act, the National Register of Citizens and the National Population Register in New Delhi, India, on January 30, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/01/2020_0201-india-protest-400x300.jpg)
Millions in India Are Practically in Open Rebellion Against the Modi Government
The real story is one of mass disobedience, not merely the details of a single piece of legislation, says Vijay Prashad.
![Indigenous youth demand that Canada’s minister of energy and mining meet with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/01/2020_0128-indigenous-youth-400x300.jpg)
Canada’s Battle Against First Nations Shows Slide Toward Authoritarianism
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continues Canada's bloody colonial legacy.