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A Renewed Legal Battle Against DAPL
By Mike Faith, Chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Originally Published by Standing Rock Sioux Tribe In 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s peaceful and principled opposition to a new crude oil pipeline crossing our ancestral homelands and our water source captured the world’s attention. Although the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) has been operating…
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Book Review: As long as grass grows: The Indigenous fight for environmental justice, from colonization to Standing Rock
SOURCE: Reproduced with permission of Journal of Political Ecology. Book Review: Gilio-Whitaker, Dina. (2019). As long as grass grows: the Indigenous fight for environmental justice, from colonization to Standing Rock. Boston: Beacon Press. Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) is the policy director and a senior research associate at the Center for World Indigenous Studies and…
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Can human rights be exercised in Native American communities?
Last June 24, 2019, the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program on behalf of the Water Protector Legal Collective, made public the report “Criminalization of Human Rights Defenders of Indigenous Peoples Resisting Extractive Industries in the United States” summarizing reports, complaints and denunciations filed with the Inter-American Commission…
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Native Hawaiians Sue Governor, Fight Against Telescope on Sacred Lands
For four days over 1000 Native Hawaiians have been standing ground to block an access road to Mauna Kea, a mountain regarded as one of the most sacred places in Hawaii, to protest the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on sacred land. “From time immemorial through the present, Native Hawaiians view, revere, care…
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ICHR to Hold Hearing on Suppression of Indigenous Resistance to Extractive Industries – Requested by over 70 organizations from Canada, Mexico & the US
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) recently announced that it will conduct a hearing on the Suppression of Indigenous Resistance to Extractive Industries in North America. The hearing was requested by the Water Protector Legal Collective (WPLC) and the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program and is supported by over 70 national and international…
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Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack of Settler Privilege
November is Native American Heritage Month when we as American Indian people get to have the mic for a little while. So, I’d like to take my turn at the virtual mic to talk about settler privilege, something you likely have never thought of, or have never even heard of. What you have undoubtedly heard…