Minnesota had 24 Indian boarding schools – 21 of which were directly supported by state or federal resources.
Today we remember the Native children – our babies – who never returned home to their loved ones from schools here in Minnesota and across the country.
Organizer & actor @dallasgoldtooth, National Congress of American Indians President Fawn Sharp, NDN Collective President @NickTilsen, & Ex. Director of
@amnestyusa Paul O’Brien among those arrested urging @POTUS to #FreeLeonardPeltier
Read Press Release: https://t.co/mbYyTleO8X
#landback isn’t a hashtag.
It’s going to take global allyship to wrestle ownership of our lands out of state & corporate control.
It’s also the only pathway forward.
Stand with us.
The build back of Lahaina, Maui is an opportunity for #LandBack to Native Hawaiians
And should not at all be an option for opportunists to do their continual landgrabbing
https://t.co/xnSvBNjuHO
The State of Hawaiʻi has failed
Both in their storm mitigation protocols as well as their relief efforts on Maui
Hawaiians have taken the lead to provide support by any means necessary
It’s almost as if we don’t need them to operate at all
We are safer without them
Huli.
Ruth Anna Buffalo (Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation, Chiricahua Band of Apache Descendant) delivered a necessary speech to the UN yesterday in Geneva, Switzerland on the legacy of Indian Boarding and Residential schools, and the urgency to protect Indigenous languages.
#UN
Taylor Sheridan's recent claim in @THR is nothing but a lie.
The Native community & decades of advocacy work are responsible for the passing of #VAWA—not a movie that centers a white savior narrative & perpetuates false notions.
#TaylorSheridan#WhiteSaviorComplex
Hey, if you're mad the Supreme Court ruled against helping Natives get access to clean water, you can donate to the Navajo Water Project.
1 in 3 people on the Navajo Nation don't have access to clean water. This organization helps bring water to them.
https://t.co/Qcm6h1BIk3
1 in 3 people on the Navajo nation rez don’t have access to clean water. 1 in 3!!
Natives have the highest rates of plumbing poverty is just one of the many inequalities that are forgotten and ignored in Native communities.
Natives are out here fighting for basic human rights.