Calls for more NHPI representation in media and government policies underscore the limitations of identity labels.
read moreA poor and Indigenous people-led movement is changing how poor people are discussed and empowering their own solutions by centering themselves.
read moreHistorically, the United States government has stripped, ignored, and infringed on the water rights of Indigenous communities.
read moreInitiatives like land rematriation aren’t just reparations but a clear way to dismantle white supremacy and center Indigenous communities.
read moreThe 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island was aimed at decolonizing the island from the colonial government of the United States.
read moreLike the MOVE bombing victims, museums hold the remains of marginalized communities, often without community support or consent.
read moreWhether it’s a question of sovereignty, preservation, or spirituality, there’s much to unpack with the U.S.’s legacy of land ownership.
read moreRelief funding disproportionately goes to white-led organizations and white, affluent neighborhoods.
read moreIn his article “Return the National Parks to the Tribes” David Treuer reminds us that national parks are the result of Indigenous dispossession. Everglades National Park is Seminole land. Olympic National Park was created by a violation of a treaty with the Quinault tribe. The first white people to ever see what is now Yosemite National Park were members of a California militia, intent on slaughtering and driving Miwok people off the land and into reservations. “Native people need permanent, unencumbered access to our homelands,” wrote Treuer, an Ojibwe author and historian. “All 85 million acres of national-park sites should be turned over to a consortium of federally recognized tribes in the United States” (The Atlantic).
read moreNew discoveries of unmarked graves bring ongoing injustices against Indigenous communities to the present.
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