#native leaders

[gwydionmisha]

Native leaders fear for queer Indigenous youth as Trump slashes LGBTQ+ rights

The two-spirit community already faces some of the highest rates of discrimination, violence, and harassment of any group in the LGBTQ+ comm

[solarpunkwitchcraft]

'Historic First': Nebraska Farmers Return Land to Ponca Tribe in Effort to Block Keystone XL

"We want to protect this land," said the tribe's state chairman. "We don't want to see a pipeline go through."

The transfer was celebrated by members of the Ponca Tribe as well as environmental advocates who oppose the construction of the pipeline and continue to demand a total transition to renewable energy.

"We want to protect this land," Larry Wright Jr., the chairman of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, told the World-Herald. "We don't want to see a pipeline go through."

"While TransCanada is trampling on Indigenous rights to fatten their bottom line, Native leaders are resisting by building renewable energy solutions like solar panels in the path of the pipeline," said 350.org executive director May Boeve.

"Repatriating this land to the Ponca Tribe raises new challenges for the Keystone XL pipeline and respects the leadership of Native nations in the fight against the fossil fuel industry," she added. "Tribal sovereignty is central to the movement to keep fossil fuels in the ground and build a more just society for all."

a good start to what should be a much larger movement of returning Indigenous lands

[importantwomensbirthdays]

LaDonna Harris

Native American activist LaDonna Harris was born on February 26, 1931 in Temple, Oklahoma. In 1965, Harris established Oklahomans for Indian Opportunity, and five years later, she founded Americans for Indian Opportunity. Through AIO, she launched an American Indian Ambassadors program to help tribes reform the constitutions, and teach them how to exercise their rights. Harris also worked with the Johnson administration on poverty relief for native communities, and served as the US representative to UNESCO.

Happy birthday, LaDonna Harris!

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[willowlark369]

I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt (aka Chief Joseph of the Niimiipuu)