By Tristan Suarez
By Terri Hansen and Joe Yracheta
This is turning out to be a particularly nasty flu season and is especially concerning for Indigenous children and adults migrating from Latin, Central, and South America detained in holding pens at the U.S. southern border, and then denied flu vaccination.
By Hani Abidi
As the decade comes to a close, NASA’s New Horizons probe conducted “the farthest ever flyby” to distant Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, 4 billion miles from the Earth. The object has been named Arrokoth, a word that means “sky” in the Powhatan and Algonquian languages. To announce the name officially, a ceremony took place at NASA headquarters in Washington D.C., on November 12, 2019.
By Alexandra Carraher-Kang
Stories told about the first Thanksgiving often perpetuate harmful stereotypes and erase the true history of the early encounters between Native communities and colonizers.
Interviews by Miriam Anne Frank, article by Miriam Anne Frank and Alexandra Carraher-King
“The government of the U.S. has repeatedly failed to protect the human rights of the Gwich'in"
New York, NY -- In a submission sent on October 3 to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Indigenous rights groups raised concerns about human rights violations against the Gwich’in Nation as a result of the Trump administration’s push to sell off the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling.
It has been three months since the construction of the 30-meter observatory was planned to begin on the Mauna Kea summit and has since been blockaded by the mobilization of Indigenous Hawaiian and allied peoples to protect the right to maintain their practices that would be jeopardized by the observatory.
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Cities and towns across Massachusetts are joining a national movement to start celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day on the second Monday of October. Cultural Survival has joined a coalition of groups led by Indigenous Peoples Day MA to successfully lobby for a name changes across Massachusetts.