Native American New

11/13/2025

Left Right ... Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud.

11/13/2025

Amen

11/13/2025

Listen to Indigenous Youth!!!

11/13/2025

For generations, Leonard Peltier and Dino Butler have been symbols of resistance, Indigenous sovereignty, and the ongoing struggle for justice. Their presence is a reminder that our movements are built on courage, sacrifice, and truth.
This is what intergenerational movement looks like.
This is what community strength looks like.
This is what our ancestors prayed for.
Here in Minneapolis, the Indigenous Protector Movement continues that fight — protecting our people, building community safety, uplifting our culture, and demanding justice for our relatives. We carry on the work and sacrifices of generations.
Leonard Peltier, Dino Butler, Crow Bellecourt (Executive Director IPM), Vin Dionne (IPM Board Chair), and Rachel Dionne-Thunder (VP IPM) together at the Minneapolis American Indian center at the showing of “Free Leonard Peltier” the documentary.

11/12/2025

11/12/2025

NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH 🤚🏽

11/12/2025

Elk walking down the Oconaluftee River, Cherokee, North Carolina
Photo credit: Aleisha Kirkland

11/11/2025

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11/11/2025

So true the history

11/11/2025

Experiencing the use of food insecurity as a weapon of control by the government is nothing new to First Nations in America. They destroyed our food systems, then forced us to rely on government rations.
So before you mock Native people for “depending on the government,” remember that dependency was created through genocide. You can’t take everything from a people, then shame them for surviving. We didn’t “fail” to be self-sufficient, the system was built to make sure we couldn’t be.
Yet here we are, still surviving and doing our best to rebuild food sovereignty. Food is medicine and access to healthy food is a human right.
Pictured: slaughter of the bison in late 1800s

11/11/2025

✦ The Trail of Tears:
The Forced Removal America Must Never Forget
In the winter of 1838, under orders approved by the U.S. government, thousands of Cherokee men, women, and children were forced from their homeland in the southeastern United States. This forced removal — known as the Trail of Tears — was part of a larger policy called the Indian Removal Act of 1830, signed by President Andrew Jackson.
The Cherokee were not the only Nation affected. The Muscogee (Creek), Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole were also forced to relocate. These Nations are often referred to as the Five Civilized Tribes, not because they became more “civilized,” but because they had adopted many Western institutions:
Written languages and newspapers
Schools and formal education
Farms, businesses, legal systems, and constitution
They were thriving.
And yet, they were removed — because settlers wanted their land.
✦ A March of Death
More than 16,000 Cherokee were rounded up and marched over 1,200 miles to “Indian Territory,” now known as Oklahoma. They walked through snow, starvation, and disease. The government promised food, wagons, and supplies.
Those promises were never kept.
Many walked barefoot.
Children froze to death in the snow.
Bodies were buried in shallow, unmarked graves along the route.
Historical records estimate that over 4,000 Cherokee died — from cold, hunger, disease, and exhaustion.
The Cherokee have another name for this journey:
“The Trail Where They Cried.”
✦ Why Should This Be Taught in Schools?
Because history is not only about what happened —
it is about who was affected and why it matters today.
Teaching the truth means acknowledging that:
Native Nations were not “nomads”; they had thriving societies.
The removal was not voluntary — it was forced at gunpoint.
It was not simply relocation — it was ethnic cleansing.
Students deserve to know that the United States was not built on empty land,
but on the displacement of Indigenous peoples.
✦ Memory Is Resistance
The Trail of Tears is not just history —
it lives in the stories, prayers, and descendants of those who survived.
Remembering this truth honors them.
Teaching it ensures it never happens again.