Tribes nationwide cheer DAPL shutdown By Talli Nauman FT. YATES, North Dakota — Tribal leaders and constituents across Lakota Territory and elsewhere welcomed a hard-won court order on July 6 to shut off the oil flow in the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) within 30 days. “Today is a...

Indigenous Peoples in the age of COVID-19 By Laura Hobson Herlihy and Daniel Bagheri Sarvestani Coronavirus now has spread throughout the Indigenous Americas. The Navajo nation reported over 1,600 cases of COVID-19 and 59 deaths on the largest US reservation, which expands through Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Nineteen members of the Afro-indigenous Garifuna people...

Second attempt to legislate peaceful protest in South Dakota ‘unnecessary’ By Talli Nauman PIERRE, S.D. — Gov. Kristi Noem’s second attempt to pass a “riot boosting” law succeeded when the 2020 South Dakota State Legislature approved it, despite critics’ claim that it is an unnecessary effort to regulate peaceful protest. Noem reintroduced the...

Water Protectors Name and Shame Chase Bank to Divest From Fossil Fuels in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en By Water Protectors After over a decade of Wet’suwet’en on the front lines of pipeline construction in so called Northern Canada, local Front Range community members and Indigenous activists from the Arapaho nation are joined by water protectors from around the world to...

Honoring Selena Not Afraid By Talli Nauman HARDIN, Mont. – In honor of missing and murdered indigenous women, a group of relay runners who took off from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on Jan. 24, joined others at the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation on Jan. 25, and...

EVO MORALES AND THE BOLIVIAN SPRING By Gilber Mamani Revolution, counterrevolution, or coup d’état? The turn of events in Bolivia after the October elections has been so rapid, surreal and tragic that some of us are still adjusting to our new reality. There are so many opinions inside and...

Evangelical gangs in Rio de Janeiro wage ‘holy war’ on Afro-Brazilian faiths By Robert Muggah The expression “evangelical drug trafficker” may sound incongruous, but in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, it’s widespread. Charismatic Christianity is on the rise across Brazil. Slightly less than a third of all Brazilians identify as evangelical, up from...

Indigenous Rights Report #25 By Teodora Corina Hasegan This is the Indigenous Rights Report for the week of December 7, 2019. In this week’s report: Indigenous activists protest proposal of massive Alberta oilsands mine Native American COP25 delegation removed from US Embassy Melanesian Indigenous Alliance calls for protection...

Mortar attack disrupts talks between indigenous U’wa and Colombia government By Adriaan Alsema A mortar attack disrupted a meeting between government officials, state-run oil company Ecopetrol and indigenous authorities in northeast Colombia on Thursday. President Ivan Duque and indigenous organization ONIC fiercely rejected the apparent mortar attack in the municipality of Cubara, Boyaca...