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Buffalo’s Fire Record number of Indigenous members elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

By Isiah Holmes, Wisconsin Examiner May 13, 2023 Next week a court filing by the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa will  be brought before a U.S.

The Bad River Band and its allies are calling for an emergency shutdown of Enbridge Line 5 pipeline due to rapid shoreline erosion.

Columnist Nancy Kelsey attended the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, where she found power and kinship in a group of Indigenous people from across the globe.

WASHINGTON — Heavy spring flooding has made Line 5 an "imminent threat" to Lake Superior and a key Indigenous watershed, lawyers argued Tuesday in an emergency motion to shut down the controversial cross-border pipeline.

WASHINGTON - Heavy spring flooding has made Line 5 an "imminent threat" to Lake Superior and a key Indigenous watershed, lawyers argued Tuesday in an emergency motion to shut down the controversial cross-border pipeline.

First Nations female leaders from across Australia are demanding immediate reform to Western Australia’s approach to youth justice in the wake of today’s riots at the Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre.

The Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) has taken note of the recent sentiments expressed by Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Ms Pauline Sukhai where she explicitly stated that government lacks the authority to authorise any mining or logging on indigenous titled lands.

More than 300 community members participate in La Guardia Indigena, protecting around 8 million hectares of one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth from logging, fishing, and coca growing.

Tribal Sovereign Nations continue to push for the pipeline’s decommissioning. Dozens of them — including in northern Michigan — blasted Canada for its continued support of the project in a report to the U.N. last month.