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To Build an Abolitionist Future, We Must Look to Indigenous Pasts
The movement to abolish systems of policing and prisons is often discredited as an unfeasible, utopian notion that is not possible in the context of human “nature.” We live in a violent society built...
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48 Years Is Long Enough
Drumming and chanting, hundreds of activists and Indigenous leaders rallied in D.C. Tuesday to mark the 79th birthday of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, and to demand Biden free America’s...
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Native ‘Hempsters’ Follow Global Cooperative Example
PINE RIDGE, S.D.- A global enterprise based in Spain may seem an unlikely role model for a fledging American Indian initiative. But inspired by its success, Winona’s Hemp and Heritage Farm in...
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Mexican Indigenous Group Fights to Preserve Sacred Sites
GUADALAJARA, MEXICO — Dressed in white clothing embroidered in colors and symbols representing the sacred universe, Mario Muñoz Cayetano, a man with a good-natured expression and deep gaze, speaks on...
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Indigenous Resistance, from Wounded Knee to Standing Rock
Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, an assistant professor in American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota, and co-founder of The Red Nation, an Indigenous resistance...
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Lula: Veto Everything!
Apib* demands that President Lula be consistent with his environmentalist discourse and veto the entire bill that threatens indigenous lands. Following the approval of Bill 2903 (PL2903) by the Federal...
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Indigenous Australians Mourn Failure of Referendum to Recognize Groups in...
Indigenous groups in Australia on Sunday called for a “Week of Silence” beginning Saturday night to protest what one campaigner called the “gut-wrenching” outcome of a referendum that would have...
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The Case for Protecting the Tongass National Forest, America’s ‘Last Climate...
Spanning 16.7 million acres that stretch across most of southeast Alaska, the Tongass National Forest is the largest national forest in the United States by far and part of the world’s largest...
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An Uprising for Democracy in Guatemala
The kitchen tent was bustling with activity as volunteers prepared tortillas, scrambled eggs, doled out portions of beans and cheese, and poured coffee. It was just before eight in the morning at the...
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The New Cold War in the Arctic
In the spring of 1953, when Regina Kristiansen was 14, she and her family were forced to leave their village of Uummannaq in northwestern Greenland, hundreds of miles above the Arctic Circle. At the...
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“Killers of the Flower Moon” Shows Wealth-Building Doesn’t End Racial Injustice
Killers of the Flower Moon is a tear-jerking film chronicling the real history of white settler exploitation of the newfound wealth of the Osage Nation. The movie touched on various themes, but the...
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Rāhui and the Art of Marine Conservation
Located in a quiet part of Tahiti, in French Polynesia, the village of Tautira sits on the ocean’s edge, framed by black sand beaches and a turquoise lagoon. With a population of just over 2,500,...
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The Pedagogy of Communal Politics in Guatemala
A communal mobilization of national scope has brought everyday impunity and extractivism in Guatemala to a halt and revealed the vulnerability of the entire political and social structure. This...
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‘We Say Return the Land to Make It Right’
As part of a Prism series last year, we heard from Indigenous leaders, land stewards, scholars, and practitioners of Traditional Ecological Knowledge to learn how the return of Indigenous land is...
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Unthanksgiving Day: A Celebration of Indigenous Resistance to Colonialism,...
Each year on the fourth Thursday of November, when many people start to take stock of the marathon day of cooking ahead, Indigenous people from diverse tribes and nations gather at sunrise in San...
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The War in Gaza Has Galvanized the Global Indigenous Solidarity Movement
For decades, the struggle for national liberation in Palestine was rightly understood to be part and parcel of a global struggle for liberation, mainly in the Global South. And since national...
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Blood Carbon: Kenyans are Being Erased so the UAE can Greenwash
Sasimwani, Kenya | You’ve heard of blood diamonds – extracted by violence, slavery, and displacement then processed through accounting magic and slick marketing until the finished product appears...
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In the Ecuadorian Amazon, Oil Threatens Decades of Indigenous-Led Conservation
Albeiro Mendúa was still in elementary school when the blockade began. For 10 days in October of 1998, hundreds of Indigenous A’i Cofán peoples joined together to stop oil workers from entering the...
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‘Ecology on Steroids’: How Australia’s First Nations Managed Australia’s...
On October 9 1873, George Augustus Frederick Dalrymple reclined in a boat on the glorious North Johnstone River in the coastal Wet Tropics. Dalrymple was in raptures. A riot of palms, bananas, ferns...
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Phantom Carbon Credits From Bosques Amazónicos’ REDD Project in Brazil Nut...
Germany’s Das Erste TV channel recently broadcast a documentary titled “Klimaneutral? Von wegen”. If you’re British, that translates as “Climate neutral? As if”. And if you’re from the US it’s,...
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Healing From the Horrors of Wounded Knee 133 Years Later
The ride is hard. Si Tanka Wokiksuye Omaka Tokatakiya, the Future Generations Ride, commemorates the Lakota ancestors and families who were brutally murdered in the Wounded Knee Massacre on December...
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Lakota Tribes: Grassroots Close Ranks to Defend Black Hills Watersheds
Forest Service responds with 20-year proposed ban on mining activity RAPID CITY, S.D. — When federal agencies responded positively in 2023 to citizen pleas to prevent a “modern gold rush” in the fabled...
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How To Privatize a Mountain
We had followed the trail for a half mile when it ran headlong into a fence. Signs nailed to the trees blared messages of unwelcome: “Private Property” and “No Forest Service Access.” They were...
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Ancient Wisdom to Face Challenging Times
We wanted to introduce you to this beautiful article by El Habib Ben Amara, an architect and urban designer from a tribal ksar (fortified oasis) in Algeria, who’s been working with a partner of ours....
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Mapuche Hunger Strike Reaches Crisis Point: Political Prisoners Fight for...
The renewed hunger strike of fifteen political prisoners of the Mapuche resistance movement in Chile has reached a highly critical stage. The prisoners are members of the Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco...
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America’s Origin Story Is a Myth
The liberal story of the United States is that we’re a nation of immigrants. The indigenous story is that the country was founded as a nation of settler colonialists. For most of US history,...
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Tribes of the Klamath Basin Show Us How to Heal a River
On January 16th, 2024, demolition experts blew a hole in the John C. Boyle Dam on the Klamath River in southern Oregon. One of four dams marked for demolition, it’s part of the largest dam removal...
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Welcoming Relatives Home: A Ceremony for Salmon
Richard Whitney was raised on the Colville Reservation in north central Washington, and was always in the woods, cutting firewood, hunting, fishing, or just being “out there, on the rez,” especially...
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Georgia Swamp Defenders Call for Public Support Against Mining Operation
Gerod Ford inherited his love of swampland from his grandmother, who grew up visiting Florida’s wetlands. She would later tell her grandchildren that “the symbiosis of the swamp is what we strive for...
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Ecuador is Not For Sale
Teargas for mega-mines Corporations and their government enablers prefer to keep the ecocidal and ethnocidal reality of extractivism hidden, but activists in Ecuador are exposing the truth. The...
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