#Trump’s federal cuts threaten #Indigenous communities

They told U.S. House lawmakers that the administration’s “chainsaw approach” to government cuts will disproportionately harm #IndianCountry

by Shondiin Silversmith, Mar 6, 2025

"From securing funding for #IndianHealth Services and ongoing #WaterSettlements to increasing investments in infrastructure, education and law enforcement, many Indigenous leaders and organizations are raising the alarm about the devastation that federal funding cuts could bring for #NativeAmericans.

"More than 60 tribal leaders and organizations from across Indian Country testified over three days to a U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations subcommittee on the federal funding needs of Indigenous people and their communities nationwide.

"'I know there’s never enough funding to go around,' Gila River Indian Community Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis said, and he appreciates how the subcommittee has consistently set aside several days to hear Indian Country’s funding priorities.

"'It is the process that starts the funding decisions for tribal programs, staffing and priorities for this administration,' he added. Tribal leaders and organizations gave five-minute testimonies to the subcommittee from Feb. 25 to Feb. 27.

"Lewis used his five minutes to discuss the Trump administration’s actions and their impact on his community.

"There is 'real fear' within tribal communities about what is happening in Washington, D.C., he said, referencing the freezing of federal funding and the mass firing of federal employees across the government.

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"He added that the cuts are being made without considering how they will impact services. Rather than making the government more efficient and effective, it is 'creating a federal workforce that is paralyzed by fear.'

"Lewis called the administration’s actions #destabilizing and said they will have a disproportionate impact on Indian Country.

"'The government-to-government relationship is only as strong as our federal partner,' he said. 'And right now, there is a real concern that the federal side of this partnership has the real potential of being dismantled.'"

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#USPol #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #AirIsLife #RespectTheTreaties #USGovtCleanUpYourMess #UraniumMining #UraniumMilling #IndigenousHealth #IndigenousNews #BadDOGE #DOGE #HealthCare

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Meet the 2024-2026 #NDN #Changemakers

By Jordynn Paz • March 5, 2025

"In October, NDN Collective announced the recipients of the 2024/26 Changemaker Fellowship, a cohort of 21 #Indigenous leaders from throughout #TurtleIsland, Islands of #Hawaii, #Borikén / #PuertoRico, the U.S. territories of American #Samoa, #Guam, the Northern #Mariana Islands, and the U.S. #VirginIslands. These incredible fellows are transforming their communities, defending Indigenous lands and waters, developing solutions for #regenerative and #sustainable futures, and revitalizing #IndigenousLanguages, #governance, #ceremonies and ways of being.

"We are honored to support the important and necessary work of each of these changemakers through this two-year fellowship program. With the NDN Changemaker Fellowship, individuals will focus on education, skill building, networking, community building, theory of change mapping, and mentorship."

Read more:
https://ndncollective.org/meet-the-2024-26-ndn-changemakers/
#TraditionalKnowledge #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #SocialJustice #IndigenousHealth #IndigenousWellBeing #FoodSecurity #Decolonize #ProtectMotherEarth #LanguagePreservation #CulturePreservation #NDNCollective

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Healing Fund Provides up to $70,000 to Survivors of Forced and Coerced Sterilization | The Tyee

The Survivors Circle for Reproductive Justice is a National not-for-profit organization created to end forced and coerced sterilization, support individual and community healing, and amplify the voices of First Nation, Inuit and Métis Survivors.

https://thetyee.ca/Presents/2025/02/13/Survivors-Circle-Reproductive-Justice-Healing-Fund/

#IndigenousHealth #IndigenousJustice

I have been licking my wounds from meditation after reading doctor’s medical notes. I wish it was reciprocal.
#IndigenousHealth #SystemicRacism
#CanadianHealthcareCrisis
Systemic Racism in Canadian Healthcare: The Tragedy of Brian Sinclair & Joyce Echaquan
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Systemic Racism in Canadian Healthcare: The Tragedy of Brian Sinclair and Joyce Echaquan | NDN POV

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"Canada has no legal obligation to provide First Nations with clean water, lawyers say"

What ???

"Federal lawyers are expected to argue in Federal Court this week that the government has no legal duty to provide First Nations with clean water, even if Liberal ministers suggest otherwise at news conferences, in response to a national class-action lawsuit launched by a northern Manitoba First Nation."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/shamattawa-class-action-drinking-water-1.7345254?cmp=newsletter_Evening%20Headlines%20from%20CBC%20News_1617_1736908
#IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousHealth

Canada has no legal obligation to provide First Nations with clean water, lawyers say | CBC News

Federal lawyers are expected to argue in Federal Court this week that the government has no legal duty to provide First Nations with clean water, even if Liberal ministers suggest otherwise at news conferences, in response to a national class-action lawsuit launched by a northern Manitoba First Nation.

CBC

Land-Based programs in the Northwest Territories: Building Indigenous food security and well-being from the ground up

Sonia D. Wesche
Meagan Ann F. O'Hare-Gordon
Michael A. Robidoux
Courtney W. Mason

#EnvironmentalChange #WildFood #CommunityBased #Research #Community #FoodSecurity #IndigenousHealth #Wellbeing #NorthernCanada

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/161

Land-Based programs in the Northwest Territories: Building Indigenous food security and well-being from the ground up | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation

Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

The business of apologies to indigenous peoples by descendants of colonizing peoples. 3 pieces in the CBC on statements from the Canadian Medical Assn and reactions from indigenous peoples. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cma-indigenous-peoples-apology-1.7326213 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/cma-apology-quebec-1.7326592;
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6511508 #indigenous #indigenoushealth #reconciliation
Canadian Medical Association to hold ceremony to formally apologize for harms to Indigenous Peoples | CBC News

The Canadian Medical Association will issue a formal apology for harms the medical profession has caused to First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

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Etuaptmumk - two-eyed seeing: Bringing together land-based learning and online technology to teach Indigenous youth about food

Renee Bujold
Ann Fox, Dr.
Kerry Propser
Kara Pictou
Debbie Martin, Dr.

#LandBasedLearning #TwoEyedSeeing #Technology #IndigenousHealth #Youth #IndigenousFoodways

#Read #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/466

Etuaptmumk - two-eyed seeing: Bringing together land-based learning and online technology to teach Indigenous youth about food | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation

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