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Why I Cut Ties With Insurance Giant Liberty Mutual
I want protection not just for my car but for life on Earth, and Liberty is one of the biggest insurers of fossil fuels.
![Interior Secretary Deb Haaland listens as President Joe Biden holds his first cabinet meeting in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 1, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-1232057964-400x300.jpg)
Haaland Announces Investigative Unit for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced that the Bureau of Indian Affairs will create the Missing and Murdered Unit.
![People protest against the Enbridge Energy Line 3 oil pipeline project outside the Governor's Mansion on November 14, 2020, in St Paul, Minnesota.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/12/2020_1218-honor-the-treaties-400x300.jpg)
To Protect Great Lakes, Michigan Tribes Oppose Enbridge Line 5 Pipelines
Whitney Gravelle, an attorney for the Bay Mills Indian Community, discusses the fight against Enbridge's Line 5.
![Members of the Kumeyaay Nation and demonstrators rally at the United States-Mexico border to protest construction of a new wall being constructed on their ancestral grounds on July 1, 2020, in Boulevard, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1223853628-400x300.jpg)
What Is the US-Mexico Border to Indigenous Peoples Who Have Lived There?
Indigenous peoples grapple with the everyday impacts of increasing border enforcement on their lands.
![Demonstrators march to the Federal Building in protest against President Trump's executive order fast-tracking the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines, in Los Angeles, California, on February 5, 2017.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/07/2020_0707-pipeline-protest-400x300.jpg)
Supreme Court Rejects Trump Effort to Greenlight Keystone XL Construction
The decision came after the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the shutdown of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
![Standoff in South Dakota: Cheyenne River Sioux Refuse Governor’s Demand to Remove COVID Checkpoints](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/SEG1-Frazier-Checkpoint-Split-400x300.jpg)
Cheyenne River Sioux Refuse Governor’s Demand to Remove COVID Checkpoints
The Cheyenne River Sioux and Oglala Sioux tribes say the checkpoints are the best way to protect their communities.
![The Seattle Indian Health Board's Esther Lucero, left, and Abigail Echo-Hawk, right, with a box of body bags.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/2020_0506-body-bags-jf-400x300.jpg)
Native American Clinic Receives Body Bags Instead of COVID-19 Testing Kits
“Are we going to keep getting body bags or are we going to get what we actually need?”
![Navajo Nation Suffers Third-Highest COVID-19 Infection Rate in U.S. with Limited Healthcare & Water](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/05/SEG2-NavajoNation-Covid-1-400x300.jpg)
Navajo Nation Suffers Third-Highest COVID-19 Infection Rate in US
The Indian Health Service is funded at one-third the rate per capita as Medicare.
![In Her Own Words: Fiona Apple on New Album “Fetch the Bolt Cutters” & Acknowledging Indigenous Lands](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/04/SEG1-Fiona-Album-Split-400x300.jpg)
Fiona Apple on Her New Album and Acknowledging Indigenous Lands
The album includes an acknowledgment that it was “Made on unceded Tongva, Mescalero Apache, and Suma territories.”
![President of Mexico Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador gestures during the Presidential Daily Morning Briefing](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/11/2019_1124-amlo-400x300.jpg)
Mexico’s President Pledged to Defend Indigenous Rights, But He’s Attacking Them
AMLO's aggression toward environmental activists and Zapatista communities gives the lie to his campaign promise.