This resistance is bigger and more organized than any protests Native people have undertaken in many many years — thousands of supporters, including people from tribes all over North, South and Central America, have set up camp in Cannon Ball, North ...
Continue ReadingOctober 27-29, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Veterans of Hope Project participated in three tremendously rich and full days in honor of the Water Mothers [Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio]. The events included a film screening and vibrant pan...
Continue ReadingVery good article and videos featuring Native women activists who are using indigenous traditions of history, strength, organizing and ceremony to fight on behalf of water and land for everybody. Click here to see the videos and read the article.
Continue ReadingMakota Valdina Pinto is a native of Salvador, Bahia Brazil and an elder in the Kongo-Angola tradition of Afro-Brazilian Candomblé. She is an environmental justice activist, a specialist in ritual and herbal healing, and an well-respected grassroots hist...
Continue ReadingRacism is built into the DNA of the United States’ food system. It began with the genocidal theft of land from First Nations people, and continued with the kidnapping of my ancestors from the shores of West Africa. Under the brutality of the whip and th...
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