indigenous peoples

Navajo Nation Has Highest Covid-19 Infection Rate in the U.S.

Navajo Nation Has Highest Covid-19 Infection Rate in the U.S.

The Navajo Nation, which is spread out through the American Southwest mostly in Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, now has the highest per capita Covid-19 infection rate in the country, as CNN reported. The Navajo Nation’s alarming surge in cases is another example of an underserved and historically marginalized minority population being particularly vulnerable to […]

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    Construction Begins on Keystone XL Pipeline in Montana

    Construction Begins on Keystone XL Pipeline in Montana

    Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which has restricted the ability to gather in peaceful assembly, a Canadian company has moved forward with construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, according to the AP. As EcoWatch reported, last week Canada-based TC Energy said it would start construction despite the climate impacts of the pipeline and the […]

    1 in 10 Children Affected by Bushfires Is Indigenous. We’ve Been Ignoring Them for Too Long

    1 in 10 Children Affected by Bushfires Is Indigenous. We’ve Been Ignoring Them for Too Long

    By Bhiamie Williamson, Francis Markham and Jessica Weir The catastrophic bushfire season is officially over, but governments, agencies and communities have failed to recognize the specific and disproportionate impact the fires have had on Aboriginal peoples. Addressing this in bushfire response and recovery is part of Unfinished Business: the work needed for Indigenous and non-Indigenous […]

    Judge Orders Full Environmental Review of Dakota Access Pipeline

    Judge Orders Full Environmental Review of Dakota Access Pipeline

    Nearly four years after massive protests drew worldwide attention to the struggle of indigenous peoples to protect their land from fossil fuel projects, a federal judge has ordered a full environmental review of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Wednesday’s ruling is a long-deferred victory for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, who have been concerned […]

    Equinor Drops Plans to Drill in the Great Australian Bight

    Equinor Drops Plans to Drill in the Great Australian Bight

    By Andy Rowel For those fighting the oil industry, the good news keeps on coming this week. The Norwegian company, Equinor, has announced it is abandoning plans to drill for oil in the highly ecologically sensitive, Great Australian Bight, which has been a battleground between conservationists and the industry for years. Off the country’s southern […]

    Indigenous People May Be the Amazon’s Last Hope

    Indigenous People May Be the Amazon’s Last Hope

    Brazil’s divisive President Jair Bolsonaro has taken another step in his bold plans to develop the Amazon rainforest. A bill he is sponsoring, now before Congress, would allow transportation infrastructure to be built on indigenous territory. Such lands cover 386,000 square miles of the Brazilian Amazon — one-fifth of the jungle. Here, Native people are […]

    Canadian Police Break up Indigenous Solidarity Blockade, Arrest 10

    Canadian Police Break up Indigenous Solidarity Blockade, Arrest 10

    An indigenous rail blockade that snarled train travel in Canada for more than two weeks came to an end Monday when police moved in to clear protesters acting in solidarity with another indigenous community in British Columbia (B.C.), which is fighting to keep a natural gas pipeline off its land. Ten members of the Tyendinaga […]

    Anti-Pipeline Protests Shut Down Canadian Rail Networks

    Anti-Pipeline Protests Shut Down Canadian Rail Networks

    Anti-pipeline protests have shut down major rail networks across Canada as indigenous rights and environmental activists act in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en people of British Columbia, who are fighting to keep a natural gas pipeline off their land. Canadian National Railway (CN) said Thursday it would shut down its freight network east of Toronto in […]

    Climate Justice, Indigenous Rights Advocates Rally for Wet’suwet’en People as Canadian Police Continue Raids

    Climate Justice, Indigenous Rights Advocates Rally for Wet’suwet’en People as Canadian Police Continue Raids

    By Julia Conley Indigenous rights supporters held solidarity actions across Canada over the weekend as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police continued their raids on Wet’suwet’en land in British Columbia. The Unist’ot’en Camp reported on its official Facebook page Sunday that at least 21 people had been arrested since Thursday, when, as Common Dreams reported, the […]