since july, i've been talking with residents of east palestine about their efforts to confirm whether pollution lingers in their homes, and how it will affect the rest of their lives. this is the story: https://t.co/cCnLMg28RU
“For the first time in the history of the country, the U.S. government is accounting for its role in operating Indian boarding schools to forcibly assimilate Indian children…” https://t.co/gc4LL4y0Tb via @NYTimes
“I just really want to make sure that folks are aware that to be Native American is a political identity, it’s not a racial identity... We are independent nations within the United States,” said Pauly Denetclaw of @IndianCountry. cc: @IndigenousJA https://t.co/72wd3brDM7
📣 @IndigenousJA is accepting vendor applications for the Indigenous Media Expo at the 2024 Indigenous Media Conference! Early-bird registration deadline is 5/1. Secure your spot today! - https://t.co/cPyBRwHS1g
“The 2023 Lāhainā wildfires exposed a systemic disregard for Indigenous rights": After deadly blaze, Indigenous peoples call for independence https://t.co/dzyygW0nBt
📢 Registration is now open for the 2024 Indigenous Media Conference! Early-bird rates available until 5/1. Join us at the Omni Hotel, OKC for workshops, sessions, & more! Don't miss out on this opportunity to engage with #IndigenousMedia professionals. - https://t.co/zA7X5AaFGk
To close out @SunshineWeek, SPJ Freedom of Information Committee Chair @JodiRave has written a column on the missing and murdered Indigenous person crisis needing Indigenous data sovereignty based on recent reports.
Read the column here: https://t.co/1RD3TzB3fU #SunshineWeek#FOI
🚨 @IndigenousJA extends application deadline for the Indigenous Journalism Fellowship to 3/5. Fellows will build their reporting & interpersonal skills in a digital newsroom experience before, during & after the 2024 Indigenous Media Conference. - https://t.co/z1mYSk2rxR
The @IndigenousJA is deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Gary Fife (Muscogee Nation), Radio Specialist, Mvskoke Media, on Jan. 14. IJA extends its condolences to Fife’s family, friends and colleagues. Photo credit: Mvskoke Media - https://t.co/7NEqk6jZoc
I am not a criminal. But today I was charged with a criminal offence while doing my job as a journalist documenting the actions of police raiding vulnerable, unhoused, unarmed Indigenous Peoples in their own territories to displace them out of their tent homes & throw their belongings in a dump. I’m pissed that I was impeded from reporting on the incident. I’m pissed about the continual trauma faced by our people; the forcible removal of our people from Native lands & the phony charade of reconciliation. The violence that occurred today is not the answer. I can’t stop thinking about the people whose belongings were ravaged and thrown in dumps today. About the city injunction to sweep these people to the curb as if that will solve the problem. The city does not have a solution, the province doesn’t either.
When the officer told the elder today they were going to be ‘forcibly removed’ I thought, ‘same old.’ The land acknowledgments are a joke. Edmonton isn’t the only place this is happening, it’s the aftermath of the greatest injustice that’s ever occurred across Turtle Island. The aftermath of genocide, yet the violence willfully continues.