Despite continued pending federal court cases, the Trump Administration has invoked national security in order to turn Oak Flat, federal land that is sacred to the Apache, into a two-mile wide pit for copper mining.
Beau sent me photos from his daily nature walk on Stz’uminus territory. When we can't be together, we communicate for hours, daily. He takes me on vicarious #NatureWalks & sends me photos along the way as we chat. I am excited to see him again on May 4th. We're spending May 4th-8th together up island. Beau will meet my Mom for the first time on May 4th. We're having dinner here before we head up to #Yellowpoint 
"Historic #HumanRights Ruling: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that Ecuador violated the rights of uncontacted Indigenous peoples by permitting #OilDrilling in their territories. The ruling reinforces #IndigenousSovereignty, mandates environmental protections, and sets a legal precedent for Indigenous rights."
https://wildhunt.org/2025/03/historic-human-rights-ruling-court-orders-ecuador-to-protect-uncontacted-indigenous-peoples-from-oil-industry-encroachment.html
#IndigenousRights #InteramericanCourtOfHumanRights
#IndigenousAmericans
#AmazonForest #Ecuador #IndigenousLand
#IACtHR #rainforest
Historic Human Rights Ruling: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that Ecuador violated the rights of uncontacted Indigenous peoples by permitting oil drilling in their territories. The ruling reinforces Indigenous sovereignty, mandates environmental protections, and sets a legal precedent for Indigenous rights.
Indigenous leaders won't take more colonialism: Canada, the 51st state? ‘Over our dead bodies,’ say Indigenous leaders #FirstNations #IndigenousLand #DonaldTrump #UnitedStates
https://ricochet.media/indigenous/canada-51st-state/
a cold day by the Bow River, bracing myself for the #Chinook and warmth.
In Bolivia’s highland city of El Alto, a row of vibrantly-colored cliff-side homes is the center of a stand-off between traditional healers and city officials, as experts warn that ongoing erosion has made the situation increasingly dire while residents refuse to abandon their residences.
https://wildhunt.org/2024/12/spiritual-leaders-remain-in-suicide-homes-despite-dangers.html
A big step forward: $375M Indigenous-led conservation deal just signed in the Northwest Territories #conservation #IndigenousLand #FirstNations #NWT
https://thenarwhal.ca/nwt-pfp-agreement-signed-behchoko/
Site C dam to be given Indigenous name after flooding Treaty 8 territory #hypocrisy #SiteC #IndigenousLand #FirstNations
https://thenarwhal.ca/site-c-dam-gets-indigenous-name/
*In case you missed reading this when it was first published last year.*
#Canada’s #NationalParks Are #Colonial #CrimeScenes.
Many see wilderness as a right of citizenship. But the concept of Canada as untouched #nature is unrecognizable to #Indigenous people
In 2017, it felt like the whole country was swept up in the rah-rah celebrations around Canada 150. It was a collective anniversary, a chance to celebrate our history. Well, some of it, anyway. Tied to the many calls to explore the country and take stock of its many wonders, #ParksCanada released its Discovery Pass, which granted free entry to all national parks that year. These natural spaces “represent the very best that Canada has to offer,” it announced in a press release. “They are the essence of our country because they tell stories of who we are, including the history, cultures and contributions of Indigenous peoples.” But, as Robert Jago explored in his timely essay, Canada’s parks program was built on the displacement of Indigenous peoples and the capture of their territories—a form of “green colonialism.” Parks are wonderful spaces, but they have also acted as #political cover for the control of land, a tactic we still see used today.—Daniel Viola, senior editor, November 2023 issue.
https://thewalrus.ca/canadas-national-parks-are-colonial-crime-scenes/
“There is no longer any excuse for Ontario officials to continue to delay implementing these solutions,” Nahmabin told reporters #pollution #health #IndigenousLand #Ontario https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/11/07/news/first-nation-canada-polluted-chemical-valley-ontario-government
Honduran National Police, private security forces, and individuals linked to organized crime have come together to harass, intimidate, and profile members of multiple #Garífuna communities with the goal of displacing them out of their ancestral territories for the benefit of extractivist and colonial settler projects. #caribbean #environmentaljustice #indigenousland
https://globalexchange.org/organizations-condemn-violence-against-garifuna-communities-in-honduras/
I received a notice from the city regarding a nearby property. The neighbours want to put an additional dwelling on the property, and the city wants to know if I have any issues with that. I said I personally have no problems with that so long as the big maple trees aren't damaged/destroyed, but I do want to know if the city contacts Six Nations re. any development. After all, this is their land, and they have placed a moratorium upon development. I'm curious to hear what the folks at City Hall have to say about that.
Edit: I heard back. Response in the comments. #HaldimandTract #ProtectTheTract #SixNations #IndigenousLand #LandBack #Haudenosaunee #Anishinaabeg @waterlooregion
Cold Lake First Nations’ concerns about carbon storage hub are still unaddressed #Alberta #fossilfuels #Indigenousland https://open.substack.com/pub/theorchard/p/cold-lake-first-nations-concerns?r=ik120&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Violence and Repression: #Indigenous from #Russia, #Algeria and #Nicaragua Appeal to the #UnitedNations
#CulturalSurvival: "#LatinAmerica is one of the most dangerous regions to be an #IndigenousRights and #environmental defender. Three out of four assassinations of environmental defenders take place in Latin America. Indigenous defenders face a double threat: defending rights and being Indigenous."
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews
July 17, 2024
GENEVA -- "The #coal and #GoldMining in Russia has driven #IndigenousPeoples from their homes and poisoned their rivers. In Nicaragua, the assassinations and imprisonment of #LandDefenders has fractured families and communities, presenters told the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
"In Algeria, the people have barely survived 3,000 years of violent #colonization and #genocide.
'Other people should not undergo what we have experienced – which is the case now in #Palestine,' said the representative from the Algeria Association, Learned Society of scientific research, religious and mystical bodies. Describing the genocide in Algeria, he said France has thousands of bones and craniums of the people in French museums.
"An Indigenous woman from #Khakassia Republic in Siberia described the coal and gold mining: 'Coal is mined, despite mass protests, the government used land, private property for this, and citizens were driven out of their homes.' Now, she said, the conditions are no longer good for livestock breeding, which is their way of life.
"'The government is only interested in the presence of natural resources -- but we are a resource ourselves,' she told the #UnitedNations.
"'Our language is disappearing, and we only have one school in the republic where the language is taught. We are #Khakas but we do not govern #Khakassia.'
"'Nothing has been done to protect our land. The main priority is the mining for materials.'
"'I also note the #Shors are suffering from gold mining, they have territory for traditional nature management created by the Republic of Khakassia, traditionally they are fishers and hunters and so on.'
"'However, companies are #polluting rivers, and this water should be used for vital needs. This water flows through villages, however it is polluted, but companies do not put an end to their activities."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/07/violence-and-repression-indigenous-from.html
#WaterIsLife #Indigenous #FirstPeoples #NativeRights
#HumanRights #Deforestation #GreedKills #StopEcocide
#StopIndigenousGenocide
#Environmental #ClimateCrisis
#StopKillingForests #IndigenousLand #NativeLand #EcoJustice #InformedConsent
#FirstNations #Colonialism
#CorporateColonialism
#Mining #CulturalGenocide
#IndigenousSovereignty
#LandBack #WaterIsLife
#Canada #LandDefenders
#sovereignty
The #GrandTraverseBand of #Ottawa and #ChippewaIndians is one step closer regaining #tribal #ownership & #stewardship of a 187-acre chunk of land on the #LeelanauPeninsula.
The land that became #TimberShores was #illegally transferred to private ownership in 1855.
#NOAA is giving more than $6.5 million for the purchase of the Timber Shores site. It's also chipping in on #restoration efforts. The money comes from a larger $11-million pool that also funds continued work on the #FishPass project in the #BoardmanOttawayRiver.
The remaining amount for the purchase, roughly $3.5 million, will come from a #Leelanau County nonprofit called #NewCommunityVision, which negotiated a $10 million purchase of the land. The #nonprofit says it's still $2 million away from that amount but expects to have it by the end of 2024.
Under the agreement, New Community Vision will purchase the land, then transfer it to the Grand Traverse Band for restoration & #preservation. It will be renamed #Mashkiigaki, which means marsh lands & place of the medicine.
The tribe’s #NaturalResources Department will restore Mashkiigaki’s shoreline, wetlands & creek corridor, which are important spawning grounds for cisco & other native fish species.
More than 50 members of an uncontacted #IndigenousTribe have been photographed on a riverbank in the remote #Peruvian #Amazon near an area where #logging companies have been granted concessions by the country's government.
The large group from the #MashcoPiro appeared in recent days near the southeastern village of #MonteSalvado, which belongs to the #Yine people. A smaller group of 17 appeared near a neighboring village.
The Yine, who speak a language related to that of the Mashco Piro, have previously reported that the #UncontactedTribe has been angry about the presence of #loggers on their land, according to the #IndigenousRights group #SurvivalInternational.
“This is irrefutable evidence that many Mashco Piro live in this area, which the government has not only failed to protect, but actually sold off to logging companies,” Alfredo Vargas Pio, president of the local Indigenous rights group #FENAMAD, said in a statement from Survival International.
World Bank Pursues Land Grabs for “Energy Transition”
https://avispa.org/?p=116534 
‘It’s a good step towards mending our relationship’: a growing network of reciprocity trusts allow settlers to contribute to the communities whose lands they live on #FirstNations #Canada #IndigenousLand #reconciliation: https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-voluntary-rent-first-nations/
