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Onondaga Nation Regains 1,023 Acres Of Land From New York State

July 10, 2022 UNAC Editor Indigenous peoples, Native American Genocide

by Last Real Indians, published on Popular Resistance, July 7, 2022 Unprecedented Land Back Moment. The Onondaga Nation will recover more than 1,000 acres of forest lands in the Tully Valley through an historic agreement with New York State and the federal government. This property, identified for restoration and preservation as part of the Onondaga Lake Natural Resource Damages and[…]

Why Wouldn’t Biden Grant Clemency to Leonard Peltier?

By Gustavo A. Maranges and Bill Hackwell, published on Resumen, on February 1, 2022 Last Friday, it became known that the 77-year-old Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier was sick with COVID-19. Peltier has been in prison for over 46 years, which makes him the oldest political prisoner in the United States. This fact has brought attention to his case,[…]

EPA Grants Oklahoma Control Over Sovereign Tribal Lands

October 14, 2020 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Indigenous peoples, Native American Genocide

By Brett Wilkins, published on Common Dreams, October 5, 2020 In a little-noticed development last week that drew ire after being reported Monday, the Trump administration’s EPA granted the state of Oklahoma wide-ranging environmental regulatory control on nearly all tribal lands in the state, stripping dozens of tribes of their sovereignty over critical environmental issues. The Young Turks which first reported[…]

Examining the Wreckage White Supremacy and Imperialism Have Wrought

August 14, 2020 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Native American Genocide

by Nick Estes and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, published on Black Agenda Report, August 5, 2019 Indigenous and African resistance and intellectual traditions provide key insights to the very nature of capitalism and how it has unfolded throughout space and time. “The young people in the streets are true revolutionary theoreticians, moving history along, sometimes at speeds that feel daunting.” The United[…]

Andrea Circle Bear And Six Centuries Of Genocide

May 16, 2020 UNAC Editor Native American Genocide, Prisoners, Prisons and Prisoners

by Mirinda Crissman, published on Workers World, May 14, 2020 Andrea Circle Bear, of the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation near Eagle Butte, S.D., was the 29th federal inmate to die due to the coronavirus in Bureau of Prisons custody. She was sentenced to serve 26 months. Circle Bear was being held at Tripp County Jail in South Dakota up until[…]

A Brief History of U.S. Concentration Camps

July 4, 2019 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Immigration, Indigenous peoples, Native American Genocide, Prisoners, Racism

by Brett Wilkins, published on Black Agenda Report, June 26, 2019 concentration camp (noun): a place in which large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. – Oxford English Dictionary Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has ignited a[…]

Dakota Men, Women and Youth Ride to Honor Executed Warriors and For Healing

January 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Indigenous peoples, Native American Genocide, Paths to Emancipation

Photo: Some participants in the Dakota 38 + 2 Wokiksuye Sunk Akan Yankapi — the Dakota Prayer Ride and Water Walk — ride into Mankato, Minn., near the end of their 17-day journey from South Dakota. ~Mankato Free Press By Stephanie Tromblay posted on Workers World, January 15, 2019 Dakota men, women and youth rode into Mankato, Minn., on horseback[…]

The War for Survival

November 27, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Indigenous peoples, Native American Genocide, Political Prisoners

by Leonard Peltier, from Counterpunch, November 22, 2018 Well here it is, sorry to say, another year, and I’m still writing to you from a prison cell. I am still in pain from my illnesses with no knowledge of whether I will ever get treatments for them. But I’m alive and still breathing hoping, wishing, praying for not just my[…]

Canada vs. the Rule of Law

August 16, 2018 UNAC Editor Canada, Native American Genocide

David Swanson looks at the recent diplomatic incident which began the Canadian Ambassador complained to the Saudi Prince the abusive treatment of dissident Raif Badawi, and now his sister, a feminist activist in Saudi Arabia. It’s a nice story where Canada looks pretty righteous. Other writers have pointed to the hypocrisy of Canada, who is a partner in the ongoing[…]