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Indigenous Peoples
The Future Is Indigenous: Decolonizing Thanksgiving
Indigenous people survive because, despite settler colonial myths that place us in the past, we have always known that we live in the future.
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A Thanksgiving Ode to John Horse and the Black Seminoles
John Horse and the Black Seminoles secured the first Emancipation Proclamation after rebelling against the white establishment.
Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on Thanksgiving: “It Has Never Been About Honoring Native Americans”
As much of the US prepares for Thanksgiving this weekend, many Native Americans will gather in Plymouth for the 47th National Day of Mourning.
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Why “Climate Change” Must Become a Promise to Decolonize
Climate change needs to be discussed in terms of conquest, genocide, slavery and other conditions that are at its root.
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Resisting Despair: Speaking Truth in the Face of Trump
What is the role of the press in the face of impending overt fascism? Truthout staff speak out against “acting normal.”
Standing Rock Sioux Elder: “We Have an Obligation to Protect All of America”
“We symbolize the struggle of every community in America about the lack of water, about contaminated water.”
Dakota Access Pipeline Once Again on Hold as Standing Rock Supporters Stage Day of Action
Just hours after the Army Corps extended its delay, Energy Transfer Partners petitioned the US District Court in Washington, DC to intervene.
Indigenous Activist Zip-Tied and Locked in Dog Kennel for Six Hours for Protesting Dakota Access Pipeline
Activist Tara Houska says police handcuffed her with zip ties and held her in a dog kennel for six hours without charging her with a crime.
Bernie Sanders’ Surprise Speech Outside the White House on Rejecting Dakota Pipeline and Trump
Sanders demanded that the sovereign rights of Indigenous peoples be honored.
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I Couldn’t Go to Standing Rock, So I Closed My Bank Accounts Instead
There are 38 banks supporting the Dakota Access pipeline. I found out mine was one of them.