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#Indigenous #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeople #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanRights #TakeAction Send a message to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum: Respect Tribal sovereignty and be transparent about your plans for Native ancestral lands and waters. | Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/burgum-respect-tribal-sovereignty-and-be-transparent

Burgum: Respect Tribal sovereignty and be transparent

After Deb Haaland oversaw Native homelands as the first Native Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, we now have a new Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum. Many Tribal leaders are concerned about Burgum’s support for fossil fuel companies over land protections, and concerned about Trump’s past record of anti-Native policies. In Trump’s first term, for example, he tried to revoke protections for sacred places like the Bears Ears National Monument. But there are signs of hope: Burgum has said publicly that he wants to work with Tribes and respect Tribal sovereignty, and in the past as North Dakota’s governor he took some steps to listen to and recognize Native communities. Unfortunately, Burgum has said he’ll align the Department of the Interior with Trump’s plan to “unleash” U.S. energy by “encouraging energy exploration and production on federal lands and waters” and he has completed a 15-day review of National Monuments, but he hasn’t shared any details publicly or privately with Tribes. We need to know more about his plans, including whether or not he plans to maintain the progress Tribes made during Biden’s administration, such as a record number of federal-Tribal co-management agreements. Click ‘START WRITING’ to send a message to Secretary Burgum to follow through with his pledge to work with Tribes and respect Tribal sovereignty, starting with being transparent and seeking Tribal consultation on his plans.

Labor Party (US)Jan 25

🚨 Breaking: Trump admin challenges Native Americans' birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, citing outdated laws. Critics warn it undermines sovereignty & constitutional rights. A judge blocked it, but the fight continues.
#NativeAmericanRights #IndigenousPeoples #NativeSovereignty #BirthrightCitizenship #14thAmendment #IndianCitizenshipAct #ProtectNativeCommunities #ConstitutionalRights
Details: https://buff.ly/3EjQG6P
#NativeRights #14thAmendment #ProtectSovereignty

"Excluding Indians": Trump admin questions Native Americans' birthright citizenship in court

The Trump admin is leaning on a pre-14th Amendment law in its fight to redefine birthright citizenship.

Salon.com

Shingo Mouse 🌳Oct 18, 2024

#Indigenous #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeople #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanRights #TakeAction Send your members of Congress a quick message now, urging them to protect Tribal Nations’ sovereign right to produce hemp. | Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/support-tribes-use-of-hemp/?link_id=1&can_id=ddbeab5dc1f0ec1370275b4de6d8c151&source=email-sign-to-protect-tribal-nations-sovereign-right-to-produce-hemp&email_referrer=email_2438598&email_subject=sign-to-protect-tribal-nations-sovereign-right-to-produce-hemp

Support Tribe's use of Hemp

After federal legalization of hemp in 2018, many Tribal Nations across the United States now self-regulate their hemp production on their lands. This is an act of self-determination that should be honored by the U.S. federal government as a step towards sustainable economic development. Although it’s newly legalized under U.S. federal law, Native communities have always used this plant as medicine, paper, clothing, and food. Hemp can also be used in housing and construction materials, textiles, and more. It’s a sustainable, carbon-negative plant that absorbs climate-changing carbon dioxide more effectively than trees. Producing and using this fibrous plant has become an important source of economic investment for Native communities, who face high unemployment rates and wealth inequality due to systemic racism. But there’s a new threat to Tribal sustainable, regenerative economies. In the U.S. House of Representatives, two must-pass pieces of legislation now include an amendment proposed by Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL), which would effectively ban 95% of hemp products. This would destroy the hemp industry and harm the many Tribal Nations that utilize and produce hemp. Click “START WRITING” to send a message to your Senators and Representative, urging them to protect Tribal sovereignty and Tribes’ ability to produce hemp by removing the Mary Miller amendment from the 2024 Farm Bill & the Fiscal Year 2025 Appropriations Bill.

Shingo Mouse 🌳Oct 16, 2024

#Indigenous #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeople #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanRights #Petition: A School Allegedly Forced a Native American Boy To Cut His Culturally Significant Hair
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/749/389/980/?z00m=33387702&redirectID=3435972515

Sign Petition: A School Allegedly Forced a Native American Boy To Cut His Culturally Significant Hair

This act disregarded the child's personal and cultural identity. (40234 signatures on petition)

DoomsdaysCW Sep 10, 2024

Bringing the Ancestors Home

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews
Sept. 9, 2024

OKEMAH, #Oklahoma --"Les Williston, #Choctaw, spoke on living life with honor, during the Convening of the Four Winds gathering at the Phillip Deere Round House on Sunday, hosted by the
#Mvskoke family of the international rights leader Phillip Deere.

"'Your ancestors are always around,' Williston said, speaking of the #SacredPlaces along the rivers. Williston is entrusted with bringing the Chahta ancestors home."

[...]

"Williston said that all along the rivers, like the #KiamachiRiver in southeastern Oklahoma, there are sacred places, places that are the heart of the people, places where the council was built.

"Speaking on bringing the ancestors home at the Phillip Deer Roundhouse on Muscogee Creek land, Williston was joined by Native people from throughout the nation during the two-day weekend gathering. They shared the history of the struggle for #NativeAmericanRights, the hard-won victories of the 1970s, and the ongoing struggles to protect the water and rivers -- as the #racism, threats of #EminentDomain seizures, the violence of #ManCamps of the #OilAndGas industry, the desecration of #LithiumMining in burial places, and the manipulations of the United States government continue.
With gratitude to the Native women gathered here, Williston said he appreciates the strength of the women speaking and their leadership, for it is a #matriarchal culture.

"'It is important that the women take the lead,' he said. 'I hear the wisdom come from these ladies.' 'We should always listen to the women, our clan mothers and clan sisters.'"

Full article:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/bringing-ancestors-home.html

#Chahta #FourWinds #WaterIsLife #ConveningOfTheFourWinds #DefendTheSacred #HonorTheAncestors

Bringing the Ancestors Home

Censored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.

Shingo Mouse 🌳Jul 9, 2024

#Indigenous #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeople #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanRights #TakeAction Urge Congress to Protect Sovereign Rights and Continue to Allow Access to Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve for the Miccosukee Tribe Now | Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/big-cypress/?link_id=1&can_id=ddbeab5dc1f0ec1370275b4de6d8c151&source=email-re-urge-congress-to-ensure-tribal-access-for-big-cypress-national-preserve-in-the-florida&email_referrer=email_2382533&email_subject=re-urge-congress-to-ensure-tribal-access-for-big-cypress-national-preserve-in-the-florida

Big Cypress

The Biden administration has been doing a good job at providing many ways for Tribal communities to exercise self-determination, protecting our sacred places, creating opportunities for Tribal co-management of land and water, and restoring dignity by removing racist and misogynistic names from land and buildings across the country. Still, while President Biden has made important strides forward, there’s still so much work to do to restore our sovereign right to be full participants in decisions affecting the health and well-being of our communities and for future generations. This is why we must ask President Biden to do more -- to keep fighting for our rights and delivering results. Big Cypress National Preserve has been a home for the Miccosukee and Seminole people for centuries. They have stewarded its lands and waters and still live in traditional villages there. Today, there are fifteen active traditional villages in Big Cypress, and sacred cultural sites, multiple ceremonial grounds, as well as burial grounds throughout the Preserve. Beyond the physical occupation, Miccosukee Tribal citizens further retain rights to use and live throughout the entirety of the Preserve, explicitly protected in the Preserve’s 1974 enabling federal legislation. In the next two months, the National Park Service is planning to designate the preserve as "wilderness" with the intention of increasing protections for the freshwaters and fish essential to its health and the health of the neighboring Everglades. However, this designation will also significantly limit the Tribe's access to their homelands and completely ignores the critical stewardship of Big Cypress they’ve provided for hundreds of years. The truth is the creation of national parks and the designation of wilderness areas has often resulted in the forced removal of Tribal Nations who lived there, causing direct harm to the ecosystems which they had been stewarding. The creation of Everglades National Park, for example, resulted in the forced removal of Miccosukee and Seminole traditional villages and the stealing of their 99,200-acre reservation. It is not the presence, or lack, of human habitation that defines the health of a landscape, but rather, it is the relationship of human beings with that land that determines the land’s fate. Deleting Tribal Nations by the stroke of a pen on paper, from a landscape created in harmony with and by Indigenous peoples, is a surefire recipe for the same kinds of ecosystem collapse that Yellowstone National Park has endured. So far, Big Cypress National Preserve has been spared the error of undertaking a fortress conservation approach. A wilderness declaration which restricts Tribal citizens’ right to move freely about their homeland or which does not accommodate Tribal rights to permanent residence in those spaces will only serve to repeat again the folly of the past century’s approach to conservation. We have Secretary Haaland to thank for reaffirming the federal government’s trust responsibility to Tribes through Sec. Order 34-02 and DOI Departmental Order 227, but the National Parks Service’s approach to this project, doing box-checking consultation and constraining 147,000-190,500 acres of Tribal rights without free, prior, and informed consent, runs afoul of this guidance. We need to ask the administration to hold the Service accountable. The Biden administration can protect Big Cypress without trampling on sovereign rights by pausing this initiative and calling for a supplemental environmental impact statement, during which Tribal input can be meaningfully heard and incorporated or by not establishing the new wilderness designation in the first place. We can make a difference in this fight. Click “START WRITING” to send a message urging President Biden and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to protect sovereign rights and continue to allow access to Big Cypress National Preserve for Florida Tribes now.

Shingo Mouse 🌳Jun 7, 2024

#Indigenous #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeople #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanRights #TakeAction: Names of landmarks must promote respect and dignity of Native peoples | Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/name-landmarks-with-respect-and-dignity-of-native-peoples/?source=group-takeitbackorg&redirect=https://secure.actblue.com/donate/tib_names_places&link_id=3&can_id=ddbeab5dc1f0ec1370275b4de6d8c151&email_referrer=email_2346956&email_subject=reclaim-the-soul-of-america&refcodeEmailReferrer=email_2346956

Name landmarks with respect and dignity of Native peoples

The Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names will meet on June 10th to continue its critical work in removing racist slurs from hundreds of geographic landmarks and waterways -- and they need to hear from us. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, the first Native person to lead a Cabinet agency under a presidential administration, has led this successful effort. And while the names of more than 650 geographical landmarks and waterways have been changed during the Biden administration, our work is not done. The use of offensive place names perpetuates discrimination, racism, and denies this land’s history of Indigenous people being the original stewards of the land. While the Advisory Committee has implemented a successful renaming process, there are improvements that can still be made, including more community involvement from impacted communities instead of unilateral changes by the Committee itself; a 90-day minimum Tribal consultation period; more community outreach and education around forthcoming renamings; and listening sessions to foster a more inclusive and participatory process. Click “START WRITING” to send a pre-drafted message to the committee from our coalition of Indigenous, environmental, and conservation organizations, urging them to continue taking necessary steps in renaming derogatory landmarks in consultation with Tribes and other impacted communities.

Shingo Mouse 🌳Jun 6, 2024

#Indigenous #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeople #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanRights #TakeAction: Names of landmarks must promote respect and dignity of Native peoples | Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/name-landmarks-with-respect-and-dignity-of-native-peoples/?source=group-native-organizers-alliance&redirect=https://secure.actblue.com/donate/noa_acrpn_name_changes&link_id=2&can_id=ddbeab5dc1f0ec1370275b4de6d8c151&email_referrer=email_2346581&email_subject=take-action-the-use-of-offensive-place-names-perpetuates-discrimination&refcodeEmailReferrer=email_2346581

Name landmarks with respect and dignity of Native peoples

Shingo Mouse 🌳Apr 21, 2024

#Indigenous #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeople #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanRights #TakeAction Tell Congress: Stop any attempt to weaken the Antiquities Act now | Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/antiquities-act/?link_id=2&can_id=ddbeab5dc1f0ec1370275b4de6d8c151&source=email-re-stop-republicans-from-weakening-the-antiquities-act&email_referrer=email_2286964&email_subject=re-stop-republicans-from-weakening-the-antiquities-act

Antiquities Act

For more than a century the Antiquities Act, a bedrock conservation law signed by President Theodore Roosevelt, has been critical to protecting of Native sacred places across the United States from the threat of development and environmental destruction. President Biden has already used the power of the Antiquities Act to designate Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument in Arizona, and Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in Nevada, heeding the calls of local Tribes pushing for permanent federal protections. In total, so far Biden has protected 1.5 million acres of public land as national monuments in just his first term. Now, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands is considering legislation that would dramatically weaken the Antiquities Act. They want to take this power away from presidents, especially President Biden, even though many Republican presidents have designated important public lands too. In fact, together, nine Democratic and nine Republican presidents have established 161 national monuments through this authority. The Congressional Oversight of the Antiquities Act would require Congress to approve the establishment of a national monument. If it’s not approved within six months, the president -- including future presidents -- would then be prohibited from designating a monument to conserve that land for 25 years. Congress already has the authority to establish, modify, or revoke national monuments. But Presidents can move more quickly to designate monuments, protecting more land and more places of cultural and spiritual significance. Indigenous peoples are still fighting for our inherent right to sovereignty, to manage our ancestral lands and waters. We need as many tools as possible to make treaty rights a reality, including the Antiquities Act. The Antiquities Act is more necessary than ever as climate change accelerates and the fossil fuel and mineral extraction industries gain power in our government to stop legislation protecting public lands from encroaching development. Click ‘Start Writing’ to sign and send a direct message calling on your U.S. House Representative vote against the Congressional Oversight of the Antiquities Act or any other attempt to weaken the Antiquities Act now.

Shingo Mouse 🌳Dec 31, 2023

#Indigenous #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeople #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanRights Donate to College Fund
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