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  • Illustrations by Christelle Enault

    The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance

    FROM THE EDITORS: This article was originally published in Emergence Magazine. We are grateful to them, who have authorized its publication and translation into Spanish in Awasqa. The cool breath of evening slips off the wooded hills, displacing the heat of the day, and with it come the birds, as eager for the cool as…

  • US Supreme Court Upholds Tribal Sovereignty in McGirt v. Oklahoma

    SOURCE: Originally published on July 9, 2020, by Indigenous Environmental Network. To learn more about their work, please visit their website at: https://www.ienearth.org/ In a monumental, historic win for tribal sovereignty and Indian Country more broadly, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Muscogee (Creek) nation today 5–4, with Justice Gorsuch—a conservative judge and…

  • Columbus. Picture: Nedahness Rose Greene

    Columbus Statues Quickly Falling Down as the US Anti-Racist Movement Strengthens

    FROM THE EDITORS: The United States is the only country in the Americas that designated October 12 as Christopher Columbus Day. The image of Columbus as a “heroic” figure for “discovering” America continues to be taught in many schools as an incontrovertible truth. Talking about the Spanish and English conquests in genocidal terms—the root of…

  • LA Indigenous Movement in Solidarity with African American Struggle

    Originally published in: Medium Statement in Solidarity with African-American, Afro-Mexicano, Afro-Indigenous and Black relatives everywhere but especially in the USA by American Indian and Indigenous Peoples organizations in Los Angeles, California May 30, 2020 Policing, politics, and pandemics The police murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department was an outrageous…

  • #WeCantBreathe: A Call for Solidarity Against a Broken World System

    The world is reeling. The indignation of people in the United States is a desperate cry for justice in a society that has finally revealed historical systemic racism and inequity. The deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor under the hands of the police force, is proof of the ongoing social and economic…

  • Wounded Knee: A Lasting Struggle for Indigenous Rights

    On December 29, the Wounded Knee massacre is commemorated in the US, where more than 300 men, women, and children lost their lives under the hands of the US military forces. The Big Foot Memorial Riders (now called the Future Generation Memorial Riders, O’maka Tokatakiya) commemorate this date through a spiritual ritual of empowerment and…

    Tribes Lead the Way to Revive Regional Salmon Runs

    This article first appeared on smea.uw.edu/currents, a student-run blog about pressing environmental issues, hosted by the University of Washington School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, “Tribes Lead the Way to Revive Regional Salmon Runs” By George Thomas Jr. We are all salmon people, and we know what we need to do. Such was the message…

  • Uninvited: How A Wampanoag’s Stand Spurred the Day of Mourning in Plymouth

    High on a hill, overlooking the famed Plymouth Rock, stands the statue of our great Sachem, Massasoit. Massasoit has stood there many years in silence. We the descendants of this great Sachem have been a silent people. The necessity of making a living in this materialistic society of the white man caused us to be…