Indigenous Life Movement

Protesters in Chicago are taking to the streets to condemn the police killing of Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old Latinx boy, after video released by the Chicago poli...ce department showed Toledo had his hands up in the air when a police officer fatally shot him on March 29. The police spent weeks disparaging Adam Toledo, but the bodycam footage revealed a very scared 13-year-old kid, says Chicago Alderperson Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez. It has been devastating for all of us. Community members are continuing to demand divestment and abolition of police, as they have for years, says Rey Wences, an organizer in Chicago’s Little Village, where Adam Toledo was killed. There’s just no room for reform, and there will not be room for reform, Wences tells Democracy Now! We must take the streets and demand justice for Adam, but also justice for our communities. MORE: https://bit.ly/3ebAnIu

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#DaunteWright should still be here. How many more "accidents"? How many more "reforms"? How many more taken from their families before the police stop shooting ...Black folks down in the street? Prayers to Daunte's family, love to Minneapolis, and solidarity to those demanding an end to the systems that allow this violence to continue. #BlackLivesMatter

When I was a tribal leader, we fought Resolution Copper in the beginning to stop them from getting exemptions from all federal laws. Then they cheated with our ...senator the late John McCain and others by getting a late night rider on a must pass bill,the NDAA, to have Congress exempt them from all Federal laws. Now I witnessed them in court with our own justice system, to up hold this great deception. For the judge to state, we are wrong and have no standing was damaging to our spirit. Our Religion as well as all religion was desecrated yesterday in his statements. The murdering of Oak flat, takes a step closer, the devastation of contaminated water, air and the environment also becomes closer to being destroyed forever. This government clearly is telling me we will never be fairly treated equally even in the federal courts. As I said before, the United States has never treated native people fairly. Until there is a third-party to decide who was wrong in the history of America. It saddens me to realize that we are free before we are born from our mothers. Then forced to live in a capitalist world that robs our sovereignty and rapes Mother Earth for their wealth and power.It will take death to be once again a free person (Apache). I now can whole heartedly say, it will be our Usen (god) Who is known throughout the world by many names that will have the final say. So this morning as I watch the sunrise from the East on mountains of oak flat. God forgive those who don’t understand you’re precious gift to the world. I ask you and to all that is holy and Sacred to guide us. So that our children and those yet to be born and all your creations have the right to live. I pray your children of the world see the evil that lives and breaths in a life of capitalism. Thank you for me to once again greet the morning sun with prayer. Blessings to all. See more

Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project When it’s at its darkest, the sun will always find a way. It seems as we are on location, we are blessed with nature’s gift ...of light. Before this photo it was cloudy and snowing. And thenmagic! What an awesome day we had in the deep, deep snow. It’s been such a blessing to share this project with you all. Thank you for your continued support and encouragement. Blessings! See more

LIVE: Join Jane Fonda, Greenpeace USA, and guests Tara Zhaabowekwe Houska of Giniw Collective and Nalleli Cobo to push President Biden to #StopLine3!

Solar Power in a cold and snowy environment!! Well I think I can have some say in this conversation being my non profit Indigenized Energy has the largest solar... farm in the state of North Dakota which is considered one of the coldest and snowy states in the winter in the country. Solar has very minimal impacts due to cold and snow. As a matter of fact solar works better in cold climates cause the panels wanna heat up faster due to the cold which produces more energy per panel. If snow is on the panel. It won't stay on very long cause the angle the panel is on and the heat the panel gives off which makes the snow slide right off the panel. Being that energy is on people's minds today here is a important fact for you. Here on Standing Rock we pay the highest utility rates in the whole state of North and South Dakota at about 13 -14 cents per kwh which is not even close compared to anyone else in our area. #IndigenizedEnergy #CovenantSolar See more

Yellow Bird is live with Dr. Henrietta Mann (Prayer Cloth Woman) sharing about American Indian History leading up to Fort Robinson & Running with Prayer Hosted... by Lynette TwoBulls (Scouts the Way Woman) and Micah Rae Highwalking (Medicine Dancer Woman) for Yellow Bird’s 25th Anniversary Fort Robinson Outbreak Spiritual Run. Please share. Néa’eše #Fortrobinsonrun #Fortrobinsonrun2021 #YellowBird

Let’s be very clear. The officials urging for no serious consequences after Wednesday’s attack on our country - including the impeachment, removal, expulsion, a...nd/or indictment of officials who aided, abetted, or incited the attack - are opening the door for it to happen again. There is no healing from this without accountability. And there is no unity with white supremacists. The GOP knows that the President’s mental state has devolved dangerously. If they are too weak to do anything about it, they are too weak to serve.

Bedahbun 'Bee' Moonias has spent her whole life worrying about the water flowing from her faucets back home in Neskantaga First Nation. Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/1.5822885

Written by Lynn Jones Tuesday, December 8, 2020 Halifax, Nova Scotia Challenging the Narrative that erases and minimizes African Nova Scotian Contributions to t...heir own history and Legacy: Environmental Racism Advocacy and Struggle The beginning of the NS Environmental Racism Bill In November, 2012, I was approached by Denise Allen, a member of the African Nova Scotian Community and Africville descendant, and advised to expect contact from Dr Ingrid Waldron of the ENRICH project as she had recommended me as an excellent resource for this new research project. The ENRICH (formally HITRI) project is a Nova Scotia environmental project tasked with research and engagement in the Mi’kmaq and African Nova Scotian Communities Under the leadership of Dr Ingrid Waldron as its chief investigator, it was in its early stages of development and hoping to expand by reaching out to engage others in the fight to address environmental racism. And the rest -as they say-is history. I joined the project in the capacity of Advisory Committee Member. Given my extensive political experience and local, national, and international involvement in the Trade union movement, I suggested ENRICH needed to develop a political strategy - first by engaging local political representatives. Dr Ingrid admitted she spent her life in academia and had no experience in this area or in community development but with help was willing to learn and I was only too willing to add my expertise to the task. I spoke with Lenore Zann MLA at the time (who was a NS NDP member of the opposition ) about Environmental Racism. I told her of my involvement with the topic at ENRICH with Dr. Ingrid Waldron and our eagerness to involve and obtain the support of politicians. Lenore was open to a discussion with Ingrid. It seems by today’s account outlined by Lenore in the House of Commons, she has forgotten this fact which is not entirely unusual when one is handling so many concerns and portfolios as a MLA. I advised Dr Ingrid that Lenore was a friend and neighbour in my hometown of Truro and that Lenore was eagerly open to a discussion about Environmental Racism. Ingrid advised the ENRICH group she would contact Lenore as I suggested. (I provided contact information for this connection as well as many others.) Ingrid contacted Lenore and later reported back to the ENRICH group that Lenore was supportive and had suggested a private member’s bill on environmental racism be introduced. The ENRICH group loved and supported the idea. I was actively involved in the discussion of the bill with Lenore and Ingrid throughout and contributed to the substance of the Private members bill and it’s issues of environmental racism even up to the wee hours of the night before it was introduced in the NS legislature the next day. Huge barriers facing us were to have the word racism inserted in the title as well as being forced to have the inclusion of Acadians on an environmental bill that was specifically addressing anti-racism, an inclusion none of us supported but had to accept in order to get support for its introduction. Also, how the community would be engaged was critical. I was able to share key strategic strategies and used my extensive network to reach out to others for input. We all actively recruited people to attend the legislature for the bill’s introduction. I was recognized by Lenore from the house floor as being in attendance and being actively involved in the formulation of the bill. I was a key speaker/spokesperson at the press conference held at Province House following the bill’s introduction and earlier actively recruited people to sit in the gallery and attend the press conference. This was also where Raymond Sheppard eloquently spoke to the media (on my invite ) as a long-term African Nova Scotian environmental activist. I continued to be actively engaged with environmental racism concerns as I had been doing since long before the establishment of ENRICH. My involvement with ensuring a book on environmental racism was written about Nova Scotia is a story in itself for another day. Suffice it to say, you will not find my name anywhere within the winning book There’s Something in the Water despite searching cover to cover for facts I’ve shared. Moving forward, my involvement with todays National Environmental Bill being presented at the House of Commons was minimal at best. Lenore, now a Liberal MP, advised me she would be crafting a national bill similar to our provincial bill. It would still retain aspects of the provincial bill but be more far reaching and with fine tuning. I was forwarded the bill once drafted and asked for comments which I was pleased to provide. I also supplied written words of support for the bill when requested. So what’s at issue here? It is firstly imperative to state what is NOT at issue. This is NOT about highlighting the role of one lone individual in the person of Lynn Jones. Nor is it about what she did or did not do or say. It is NOT about measuring her involvement in the development and presenting of a environmental racism bill(s). Nor is it about her later being intentionally l marginalized in this particular environmental arena. What is at issue here IS the consistent erasure of the worth and work of African Nova Scotian People and their communities and the grassroot organizing , building and commitment they unselfishly provided and continue to provide towards the liberation of African people in their communities locally nationally and globally. They share their knowledge and expertise freely with others only to have their contributions utilized while they are pushed to the sidelines and others take claim of the end results. Some even have the audacity to suggest African Nova Scotians contribute nothing to the environmental racism conversation while they take full credit for its advancement. It becomes convenient to relegate African Nova Scotians to a position of invisibility only to be brought to the surface as an afterthought and footnote to others‘ notoriety and perceived seminal role while omitting the people who provided the blood, sweat and tears to make today’s strides possible. It is believed to be easy to silence their voices and omit them from spaces where they rightfully belong. I thank all of the people who for generations have kept our African Nova Scotian Communities alive despite the environmental degradation, anti- Black racism and oppression they have had to endure. I especially thank the Black women who have shared their extensive grassroot skills of networking and collaborating with others while holding their families' needs high. In the words of a well-known African proverb which I deem to be quite appropriate to this situation - "Until the story of the hunt is told by the Lion, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter". May all African Nova Scotians rise up and continue to write and share their own stories.It can only increase our demand for Reparations long overdue. I’ve shared my story. Let it roar!!!! (Photo Feb.2019)

Life on the frontlines is beautiful. We are people of the land. The oshki-bimaadiziig (new people) are speaking it’s time to listen. Join us, learn more at Giniw Collective & StopLine3.org