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Eyes on the future: An open letter to President Biden on Indigenous Peoples
This is an open letter to President Joe Biden from a group of Indigenous Peoples and advocates.
The letter calls for a series of actions from the Biden Administration in support Indigenous Peoples’ rights in the U.S. and abroad.
“Internationally, the United States must become a champion for Indigenous Peoples’ rights and, in our foreign policy and foreign assistance, engage Indigenous Peoples as partners through their own social, political, and legal institutions in addressing the world’s most urgent challenges and in advancing security, prosperity, sustainability, and peace,” the authors write.
RELEASE: Conservation Plans Must Respect Tribal Sovereignty and Support the Work of Indigenous Communities
Date: January 26, 2021
Contact: Sam Hananel
Washington, D.C. In its push to protect 30 percent of U.S. lands and ocean by 2030 known as the 30×30 plan the Biden administration should respect tribal sovereignty and support conservation efforts led by Indigenous communities, according to a new issue brief from the Center for American Progress.
By pledging to provide Native American tribes with a greater role in the care and management of public lands, President Joe Biden has shown a willingness to confront the injustices that affect nearly all aspects of U.S. natural resource policy, the brief says. These include not only the history of land theft, erasure and genocide, but also the government’s continued failure to meet its trust and treaty obligations to tribal nations and failure to recognize the integral contributions that Indigenous peoples have made to biodiversity
After decades of battling misinformation, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes recover their lands and the herd. Image credit: Pete Caster Jan. 26, 2021 From the print edition
When Shane Morigeau was growing up on the Flathead Indian Reservation, he knew that the land inside the fenced National Bison Range was different from the tribal lands elsewhere on the reservation, at the base of Montana’s Mission Mountains or the shores of Flathead Lake. He remembers being a kid in his dad’s truck, driving past while his father explained that the lands inside the fence weren’t tribal lands anymore. As tribal elders tell it, it was common knowledge that the fence was as much to keep them out as it was to keep bison in. “It happened long ago,” Morigeau said, but “it still resonates across generations.