Protecting, Preserving, Educating

The Association on American Indian Affairs is the oldest Native American advocacy non-profit in the United States. indian-affairs.org

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“Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten that reservations were meant to be death camps.”

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian — Sherman Alexie

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National Museum of the American Indian's Historic Unveiling of Gold Rush Era Treaty Held Secret by U.S. Senate Leading to Ethnic Cleansing of American Indian Nations in California

National Museum of the American Indian’s Historic Unveiling of Gold Rush Era Treaty Held Secret by U.S. Senate Leading to Ethnic Cleansing of American Indian Nations in California

Published September 21, 2016 WASHINGTON — Unratified California Treaty K, also known as the Treaty of Temecula, will go on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian on Sept. 22. This treaty is part of the exhibition “Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations,” which opened on Sept. 21, 2014 and will stay open through Spring 2020. The…

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Bundy Militia Compared To ISIS For Pawing Through Native American Artifacts, Destroying Sites - January 2016

With the latest destruction of a Paiute archaeological site by the Bundy militants, outrage spreads among Natives, archaeologists, and the public in comparing their actions to those of ISIS.

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There’s been a lot happening this month.

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East Bay Regional Park will build parking lot over Ohlone Graves

East Bay Regional Park will build parking lot over Ohlone Graves

Alameda and Contra Costa counties, California-The East Bay Regional Park District acted as if they only had two options. These options where on Mission Peak to construct a parking lot and bathroom . They decided a parking lot and bathroom were necessary and when, The Ohlone People, the original occupyers of Mission Peak protested, they were politely dismissed. In the name of progress, it was…

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Always remember the true history of this land.

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Archeologists Denounce Dakota Access Pipeline for Destroying Artifacts

Archeologists Denounce Dakota Access Pipeline for Destroying Artifacts

by Oliver Milman / The Guardian Archeologists and museum directors have denounced the “destruction” of Native American artifacts during the construction of a contentious oil pipeline in North Dakota, as the affected tribe condemned the project in an address to the United Nations. The $3.8bn Dakota Access pipeline, which will funnel oil from the Bakken oil fields to Illinois, will run next to the…

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Native American Standing Rock Protesters Proven Right As Three Oil Pipeline Spills Pollute U.S. Rivers In Only One Week

It’s a bad week for Big Oil. There have been 3 major oil spills this week, and in an effort to quell the fears about the Dakota Access Pipeline, representatives for Big Oil may have outright lied to the media about the extent of the oil spills.

Shell Pipeline shut down their West Columbia, Texas pipeline last Friday after the US National Response Center showed 700 barrels had been lost, amounting to almost 30,000 gallons of crude oil.

But on Monday, Shell representatives said inspectors found “no evidence” of an oil leak.

Days later it was revealed that a leak had actually occurred. Representatives with the US Coast Guard confirmed to Dow Jones on Thursday that roughly 50 barrels of oil spilled from a pipeline near Houston, Texas. The oil followed a waterway into the Gulf of Mexico.

Shell was initially presented with data that said nearly 700 barrels of oil were spilled, but that number was later reduced to just 60 barrels.

“That’s a very early estimate – things can change,” Officer Lehman told Dow Jones.

Meanwhile, in Arkansas, a rupture in an ExxonMobil pipeline last week resulted in thousands of barrels of oil being spilled into the town of Mayflower, 25 miles outside of Little Rock. More than 20 homes had to be evacuated due to the spill. More than19,000 barrels have been recovered since the initial leak.

And in Canada this week, Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd told the press that 4 barrels of oil were lost when one of their trains derailed. That number increased to 400 barrels — or roughly 16,800 gallons — after a full investigation was done, and media arrived asking questions.

USA Today reported in 2010 that U.S. Minerals Management Services says the annual total of oil spills had increased, from an average of 4 spills per year of 50 barrels or more in the 1990s to more than 17 per year from 2000 to 2009.

According to Wikipedia, there have been at least 75 oil spills worldwide since the year 2000.

In fact, Wikipedia lists less than 10 spills occurring between 1907 and 1970. This low level of oil spills is most likely due to the fact that oil pipelines were just coming into the market as a viable fuel transportation option. But since Big Oil has adopted pipelines as their choice mode of carrying oil, oil spills have increased along with the number of pipelines.

These spills come at a very bad time, as protestors at the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) are using these reports of recent oil spills as evidence that pipelines are still not environmentally safe.

Protestors at DAPL claim that pipelines are not as safe as Big Oil would like the public like to believe, and it’s irresponsible to construct any more pipelines before major technological improvements can guarantee the safety of people and the environment.

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Local artist unhappy with new show rules

With the Master's Show art display and competition approaching in November at the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in Muskogee, some controversy has arisen about the requirements for entry.

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wannabe’s, pretendians and Generokees need not apply!!

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‘I Am A Role Model’: The inspiration behind Bronson Koenig’s Native American activism

Bronson Koenig drove 13 hours to bring supplies — and, more importantly, hope — to the Standing Rock Sioux in their fight for their land.

“My mom has always told me that I’m a role model whether I like it or not, and she’s always pushed me to be the best role model I can be for our youth,” Koenig says. He knows that he has a national platform right now, one that may not last beyond his senior season in Madison, which is why he has spent the last month doing everything he can to raise awareness for a fight he believes he was born into.

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Support writers and artists from underrepresented communities, and remove barriers to inclusivity.

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YES and we need everyone to keep donating money to support our people in standing rock

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Things ndns should stop doing immediately (ndns only - feel free to add more!)

insulting (dehumanizing, demonizing, etc) Native girls  

making ugly memes of Native/rez girls

making fun of native girls for their flat behinds 

saying urban girls are 'better’ and more ‘appealing’ than rez girls

putting light skinned ndns on a pedestal (for their light skin) and throwing dark skinned ndns under the bus (for their dark skin) 

insulting dark skinned ndns for their dark skin

making jokes of ndn couples in domestic violence situations 

saying “they’re going to be ugly when they grow up” when talking about ndn children

saying or writing “native lives matter”, “indigenous lives matter”, “aboriginal lives matter”, and “ndn lives matter”. 

shaming and dismissing mixed ndns

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@thisisantinativeracism @nativeamericanconfessions @angrynativefeminists

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All of this, I especially think the 9th one is critical, you see all this shit liste above happen in so many ndn facebook pages ran by ndns (not to be confused with native american pages ran by white people who fetishize ndn people)

I think we should also add

11: Letting any asshole think it´s ok to insult or low-key diss mexicans in ANY WAY, I remember this one time on a facebook page a news article was about a mexican girl who died by a serious hickey injury and the facebook admin was warning people about being careful when giving hickeys and this other bitch commented saying something along the lines “mexicans don´t know how do hickeys the right way” it sounded so arrogant. ugh so much other shit also.

12: Saying or thinking it´s ok to say the n-word, the c-word or any other racial slur other POC get called just because redskin is used openly in sports games, we´re better than this and we gotta treat people how we want to be treated, I understand sometimes we want other people to know how it feels but chances are they ALREADY know how fucked up it is.

13: Sexism in general on both ends, but this also means that we stop putting men in the center of everything and also that we hold women accountable for any sexism they teach or spread out towards girls or boys, the most sexist things that I have experienced came from women in my family and when I confronted these women they would argue with me and rationalize sexism.When I confronted men they were more willing to listen and shut up.

14: We as (ndn, native) women gotta stop putting white women´s thoughts, opinions, ideas, approval over and above our (ndn, native)men in our communities. This has actually started happening until recently I think, where we trust white women more than our men just because they are women, we sometimes ignore our men´s voices, like they don´t know what´s best for us, like their judgement is not important enough compared to white women, even though they can understand us better than anyone else. Maybe this stems from resentment towards our men from sexism, or the fact we need someone to blame and hurt, like how we have been hurt and attacked on all levels, since we have been silenced for so long, we haven´t had time to heal or to breath from struggles we may have faced, mistakes we have made, we sometimes run to non-natives for warm or to receive approval and reassurance but it doesn´t have to be that way, we all need to heal and we need each other, we shouldn´t have to escape from each other or blame each other for all the pain we face.

Sorry that´s long, it´s all I can think of now, again it´s not to upset people but it´s just my opinion.

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Images from We Are Still Here, a Photographic Account of the American Indian Movement 

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Are you freaking kidding me?!?! Idk why I go to the comment sections anymore. It’s mostly full of blind white privilege who INSIST they are “honoring” Native American culture!!!! It’s so ridiculous they try to get offended over us being offended!!! But when you try to educate them they don’t want to hear it and fix their mistakes.

What makes me even more mad is that Ms. Stubbe changes her picture to support her irrelevant opinion and her white wine culture middle aged friend wants to openly mock Native Americans being “offended.” I cannot believe the idiocy, because it’s passed the point of ignorance because this is blatant disrespect, of these sad white people. Get outta my face with your “but I’m part native!!” I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again every day until I die, that the government DID NOT HAVE TO PAY ME OR GIVE ME BENEFITS TO BE NATIVE!!! You could take all that away from me, because I hardly get to benefit from it anyway because it all falls into the hands of white people who would lose their native blood if you prick them, and I will still proudly own up to my culture, my heritage, and bloodline. I don’t need an “Indian card” to prove anything.

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This is the most appalling/disturbing thing I’ve seen today.  I don’t understand how people can be this blatantly racially insensitive and culturally appropriating… still. People STILL don’t get it. How ignorant can you possibly be? 

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Things ndns should stop doing immediately (ndns only - feel free to add more!)

insulting (dehumanizing, demonizing, etc) Native girls  

making ugly memes of Native/rez girls

making fun of native girls for their flat behinds 

saying urban girls are 'better’ and more ‘appealing’ than rez girls

putting light skinned ndns on a pedestal (for their light skin) and throwing dark skinned ndns under the bus (for their dark skin) 

insulting dark skinned ndns for their dark skin

making jokes of ndn couples in domestic violence situations 

saying “they’re going to be ugly when they grow up” when talking about ndn children

saying or writing “native lives matter”, “indigenous lives matter”, “aboriginal lives matter”, and “ndn lives matter”. 

shaming and dismissing mixed ndns

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@thisisantinativeracism @nativeamericanconfessions @angrynativefeminists

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@bilbows

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wait i don’t understand how saying native lives matter is offensive?

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^it’s offensive because it’s piggy backing off of the “blacklivesmatter” slogan and movement. While native lives most certainly do matter, using it under the same headline and context it is invalidating the blacklivesmatter movement the same way “all lives matter” does, because it started as a movement to speak on specifically addressing justice for black people. We have our own tags, slogans and movements, (nomorestolensisters, idle no more, notyourhollywoodindian, etc) so we can use those rather than hijacking something that wasn’t intended for us to use.

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• Automatically assuming that white-passing ndn’s enjoy or should enjoy the “privilege” they are born with • Dismissing the subtle intertribal racist comments/jokes regarding my nation (Cherokee/Tsalagi) • Thinking that every white passing NDN is of Cherokee heritage (there are over 500+ cmon now) • Hyper sexualizing white women wearing war bonnets (yes, this does happen)