The federal government told the Klamath Tribes they weren't a "salmon tribe" because dams wiped out their fish 100+ years ago. So the Yurok Tribe applied for the $5.9M grant & passed the funds through. This is Indigenous solidarity in action. https://t.co/ialcvPaBi3
We’ve been told the Revolution was fought over taxation and representation. But according to our founders, in their own words, what they were most angry about was Native Americans. How did we all miss this?
When Karihwenháwi Caira Nicholas made the decision to enroll in the Ratiwennenhá:wi Kanien’kéha language immersion program three years ago, she never realized that it would inspire her younger sister to follow in her footsteps.
https://t.co/9HZndtQIE3
[I'm likely on a "Native Extremism" list too, as the AFN Indian Act Amendments Coordinator, I helped organize 1997 Nat'l Day of Action at 24 Sussex that Ovide was spied on for!]
Why CSIS started spying on Indigenous leaders decades after RCMP stopped
https://t.co/wK4XMQ1OHd
Ontario's funding of multiple supervised consumption sites for people who use illicit drugs ends today
The Ford government's decision to abandon this proven health care intervention is going to cost people their lives. It didn't have to be this way
Canada funds research into plastic pollution in Indigenous communities
Patrick Quinn Local Journalism Initiative Reporter https://t.co/Evt2EfZBFS
#CommunityNewspaper#LJIReporter#PADailyHerald#Research
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Montreal police allegedly cut the hair of racialized people to use it as “trophies.” Two cops have been suspended and 14 others transferred or reassigned during an ongoing investigation into racist police conduct
https://t.co/PsYI8V1Bsc
A new First Nations clean water bill set to be introduced by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government removes a provision in a previous bill that would have recognized First Nations have a human right to clean drinking water.
More on the leaked bill here:
https://t.co/PNz7hSTCog
Oil companies once again showed virtually no interest in the latest lease sale for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but it was enough to disappoint groups that have fought to protect the region from development. https://t.co/y9fiOPqip3
Efforts by some senators to amend the federal anti-hate legislation to include residential school denialism as a punishable crime are voted down by the Senate.
Hear more on APTN News Brief:
https://t.co/y7FCgZfKVZ
The Oilsands Alliance originally promised to capture 68 megatonnes of emissions each year — the largest carbon capture project in the world. Now that number has dropped to 16 https://t.co/7qU1oKg3xb
We have cared for this land since time immemorial. Our knowledge, our sovereignty, and our leadership are the climate solution the world needs.
Protecting our rights protects Mother Earth and on this #WorldEnvironmentDay, we call on the world to stand with us.
#LandBack #DefendTheSacred
As Dutch elm disease marched west across Canada, Winnipeg’s trees were decimated. The city is now planting 6,000 trees each year — but young trees face many challenges https://t.co/WYcSO8LelA
Canada's police are becoming more deadly and less accountable, but their budgets and powers keep expanding
@ElJonesPoet joins me on our latest @TheBreachMedia podcast to discuss the possibility of defunding an institution that does so much harm
https://t.co/LAMmYipDKL
Absolutely appalling editorial by the Globe and Mail that buys/perpetuates all the false framing of the far right and platforms an anti-Indigenous conspiracy theory my research has debunked.
B.C. natural gas would replace Russian gas, not coal, which experts say weakens arguments that liquefied natural gas lowers global emissions https://t.co/huQxLra2Av
Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize 70% of Gaza. This would mean that the 2.2 million Palestinians who have survived the war would be crammed into less than a third of their original territory. “It is the single most overcrowded place on earth.” https://t.co/si20C54yeg