#native rights

[lore-gore]

Hey so apparently the Trump administration is trying to include Natives in his unconstitutional birthright citizenship end order. They haven't been non citizens since 1924. He trying to fucking reverse the Snyder Act.

A lot, if not all, of his plans impact natives in some way. Remember to keep advocating for native rights.

[batboyblog]

Things the Biden-Harris Administration Did This Week #38

Oct 11-18 2024

President Biden announced that this Administration had forgiven the student loan debt of 1 million public sector workers. The cancellation of the student loan debts of 60,000 teachers, firefighters, EMTs, nurses and other public sector workers brings the total number of people who's debts have been erased by the Biden-Harris Administration using the Public Service Loan Forgiveness to 1 million. the PSLF was passed in 2007 but before President Biden took office only 7,000 people had ever had their debts forgiven through it. The Biden-Harris team have through different programs managed to bring debt relief to 5 million Americans and counting despite on going legal fights against Republican state Attorneys General.

The Federal Trade Commission finalizes its "one-click to cancel" rule. The new rule requires businesses to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it was to sign up for it. It also requires more up front information to be shared before offering billing information.

The Department of Transportation announced that since the start of the Biden-Harris Administration there are 1.7 million more construction and manufacturing jobs and 700,000 more jobs in the transportation sector. There are now 400,000 more union workers than in 2021. 60,000 Infrastructure projects across the nation have been funded by the Biden-Harris Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Under this Administration 16 million jobs have been added, including 1.7 construction and manufacturing jobs, construction employment is the highest ever recorded since records started in 1939. 172,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during the Trump administration.

The Department of Energy announced $2 billion to protect the U.S. power grid against growing threats of extreme weather. This money will go to 38 projects across 42 states and Washington DC. It'll upgrade nearly 1,000 miles worth of transmission lines. The upgrades will allow 7.5 gigawatts of new grid capacity while also generating new union jobs across the country.

The EPA announced $125 million to help upgrade older diesel engines to low or zero-emission solutions. The EPA has selected 70 projects to use the funds on. They range from replacing school buses, to port equipment, to construction equipment. More than half of the selected projects will be replacing equipment with zero-emissions, such as all electric school buses.

The Department of The Interior and State of California broke ground on the Salton Sea Species Conservation Habitat Project. The Salton Sea is California's largest lake at over 300 miles of Surface area. An earlier project worked to conserve and restore shallow water habitats in over 4,000 acres on the southern end of the lake, this week over 700 acres were added bring the total to 5,000 acres of protected land. The Biden-Harris Administration is investing $250 million in the project along side California's $500 million. Part of the Administration's effort to restore wild life habitat and protect water resources.

The Department of Energy announced $900 Million in investment in next generation nuclear power. The money will help the development of Generation III+ Light-Water Small Modular Reactors, smaller lighter reactors which in theory should be easier to deploy. DoE estimates the U.S. will need approximately 700-900 GW of additional clean, firm power generation capacity to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Currently half of America's clean energy comes from nuclear power, so lengthening the life space of current nuclear reactors and exploring the next generation is key to fighting climate change.

The federal government took two big steps to increase the rights of Alaska natives. The Departments of The Interior and Agricultural finalized an agreement to strengthen Alaska Tribal representation on the Federal Subsistence Board. The FSB oversees fish and wildlife resources for subsistence purposes on federal lands and waters in Alaska. The changes add 3 new members to the board appointed by the Alaska Native Tribes, as well as requiring the board's chair to have experience with Alaska rural subsistence. The Department of The Interior also signed 3 landmark co-stewardship agreements with Alaska Native Tribes.

The Department of Energy announced $860 million to help support solar energy in Puerto Rico. The project will remove 2.7 million tons of CO2 per year, or about the same as taking 533,000 cars off the road. It serves as an important step on the path to getting Puerto Rico to 100% renewable by 2050.

The Department of the Interior announced a major step forward in geothermal energy on public lands. The DoI announced it had approved the Fervo Cape Geothermal Power Project in Beaver County, Utah. When finished it'll generate 2 gigawatts of power, enough for 2 million homes. The BLM has now green lit 32 gigawatts of clean energy projects on public lands. A major step toward the Biden-Harris Administration's goal of a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035.

Bonus: President Biden meets with a Kindergarten Teacher who's student loans were forgiven this week

[thenuclearmallard]

[venusloveprincess]

This makes me sick

White people tortured Indigenous/Native people for years, putting us into residential schools to 'beat the Indian out of the child' and what happened at these prisons they called schools was kids being subjected to slavery, having to be strip of their culture till nothing was left, abused so badly some were beaten to death, forced to starve sometimes and work for food, forced to pray to a so called god that made them suffer in the first place and were raped and SA'd with some even dying from such a horrible torture. They were beaten with rulers and sometimes even with bare hands, leaving bruises and cuts that would even break skin most times. Indigenous/Natives did nothing but try to share the land with the white folk yet still the whites took their land, their sacred animals, their beautiful plants, their fresh air and their innocents. Yet natives/Indigenous were called savages, not the ones doing the genocide. Even today Indigenous/Native women, girls and two spirited people have been kidnapped just so they can repeat the torture all over again raping, SAing, abusing, starving and mocking them. If you think people who have been on the lands longer then white people and other races have been should be kicked out then you need to take a look into yourself a change your morals to what is right. Most of these victims will never be found, let that sink in. Some graves are so old we'll never be able to see their bones to know they were buried because of how long these schools were up for. Mothers who had there babies ripped from their arms, chiefs that watched their tribe lessen everyday as a new kid is taken away, husbands who had to hear the sobs of their wives cries all because of a skin call, a different culture. Not to mention most who faced earlier wars were Indigenous/Native, most early bakers and chefs were Indigenous/Native, most laws and ruling was made by the Indigenouses/Natives, NOT WHITE PEOPLE! You can take our children, you can take our land, you can take our culture, you can try to silence us but you can NOT ERASE our history and all we have went to to survive. Most tribes will never get most of their languages, traditions and stories back but together we can try. I'm from the Seneca tribe and each day I will try to learn more about my culture and what white people tried to take away because they couldn't difference.

[c-h4nn]

holy shit anti-Indigenous racism is so pervasive in castlevania fandom spaces that it's pushing people, including me, a Native person, away from the fandom.

There is so much criticism and outright hatred directed toward Olrox (and his past lover) when the other beloved characters have done far worse throughout the games and shows and have never been brought up like this. These are racist, superficial, speculative, and uneducated claims that I will not deign to expand upon. You don't have to like Olrox as a character. But do not be permissive of racism and bigotry, or else that will be all the fandom consists of.

[politijohn]

Source

[mascula-sappho]

Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention

The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota said three of the four tribal members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis last wee

"Oh they are targeting Latinos" Latinos are mostly partly Purepecha, Mexica, Maya, Mixteco, Quechua, etc. etc. "Looking Hispanic" = Looking Native. Also if anyone doesn't know this the Oglala band is the band Sunka Wacan (sacred/crazy horse, famed untouchable war chief in the fight against colonization, guy with the sacred stone tied to the back of his head, etc) was from. We should all be very worried for our Native friends and family members.

[leftistfeminista]

"The Anicinabe Park Occupation" began in mid-July 1974.. and lasted until late August, approximately, 39 days. For a month, armed Ojibway militants (mostly youth) occupied a 14‐acre park in the resort town of Kenora, in northwestern Ontario, to call attention to long‐standing grievances against the white authorities. The embattled Ojibway in Kenora Park, led by 24‐year‐old Louis Cameron, the head of the militant Ojibway Warriors Society, marked the new phase of their campaign, by "destroying a collection of fire-bombs, in a clearing. They then placed eight rifles and handguns, on a blanket and turned them over to Mayor James Davidson of Kenora, at the barricaded entrance to the park. In return, the 80 young Indigenous people were given a city permit, to spend 10 days more in the park. The Ojibway People say, that the park is Indigenous land, that was sold "illegally" to the city of Kenora, by the Department of Indian Affairs, in 1959. They also demanded social reforms for some 7,000 Indians, most of them impoverished, in Kenora and in nearby reserves.