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Engaging our Sovereignty for Indigenous Liberation

by Rachel Carey-Harper | Mar 12, 2021 | Sovereignty

How do you fix broken treaties that you know will never be honored by a government that had no intention of being responsible? How can one believe that “all men are created equal” written by a man who owned many slaves?

Sacred Apache Land ‘on death row’ in Standoff with Foreign Mining Titans

by Rachel Carey-Harper | Mar 11, 2021 | Sovereignty

The Apache Stronghold group argued in the suit that the planned destruction of Oak Flat would violate religious freedom protections. It also argued that an 1852 treaty between the Western Apaches and the U.S. gives the tribe rights to the site.
“The Oak Flat Parcel of the proposed Resolution Copper Mine Project is located right smack dab in the middle of the Western Apaches’ 1852 Treaty lands,” the lawsuit says. The treaty was “never amended, rescinded, nor terminated,” it adds.

The True Cost of the Louisiana Purchase

by Rachel Carey-Harper | Mar 11, 2021 | Sovereignty

This map tracks 222 Indian cessions within the Louisiana Territory. Made by treaties, agreements, and statutes between 1804 and 1970, these cessions covered 576 million acres, ranging from a Quapaw tract the size of North Carolina sold in 1818 to a parcel smaller than Central Park seized from the Santee Sioux to build a dam in 1958.

Letters to the Editor

by Rachel Carey-Harper | Mar 8, 2021 | Solidarity

Letters to the Editor Individual actions can make a difference. Some, like writing letters to the editor, can be a tiny form of expressing solidarity. Although small, one after the next, after the next will build into something worthwhile. Letters to the Editor of...

Standing with Standing Rock — A Role Play

by Rachel Carey-Harper | Mar 8, 2021 | Solidarity

This role play helps students recognize the issues at stake in the historic struggle of the Standing Rock Sioux to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline. Before launching the role play, we wanted to give students a visceral and visual sense of the resistance under way along the Missouri River.

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

by Rachel Carey-Harper | Mar 6, 2021 | Solidarity

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is an international instrument adopted by the United Nations on September 13, 2007, to enshrine (according to Article 43) the rights that “constitute the minimum standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of the indigenous peoples of the world.”