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WMNF loading... Florida Indigenous activist sets out on mission to heal men of his home Lakota tribe Share this: The spirit of the Lakota tribe came to St. Petersburg this Saturday as members of Florida Indigenous Rights and Environmental Equality raised funds and awareness for a project to bring healing back home. The Common Man Society hopes to heal the Lakota’s of Standing Rock by starting with the tribe’s men. The homies Speaking in the Lakota language, Garrett Stuart first addressed what he referred to as his homies. “I was acknowledging the thunder nation and the buffalo nation a...

The loan will help the town rehabilitate and replace the lift station and install new equipment. Juliaetta qualifies for a disadvantage loan because the annual cost of wastewater service for residential customers exceeds 1.5 percent of the median household income. Share this:

4 hours ago by Daniel Figueroa (WMNF ) Photo: Daniel Figueroa Indigenous rights activists gathered in St. Petersburg this weekend to demand action from the Catholic Church following the discovery of more than 1,000 graves filled with native children. The children were killed at schools meant to assimilate Indigenous peoples. To the sound of a pulsing drum they marched. Members of Florida Indigenous Rights and Environmental Equality led a group nearing 50 from a rally at Williams Park to a vigil at St. Mary Our Lady of Grace Church. The marchers wore orange to honor the children buried in...

St. Pete protesters protest Roman Catholic Church’s massacre of Indigenous children Next Nearly two dozen demonstrators gathered in St. Petersburg on Saturday to hold the Roman Catholic Church accountable for the massacre of Indigenous children. During the past two weeks, more than 1,000 unmarked children’s graves have been unearthed from Canadian residential schools, causing widespread suffering throughout the Indigenous community. RELATED: The protesters met at Williams Park to listen to members of Florida Indigenous Rights and Environmental Equality (FIREE) express the abuses their pe...

5 hours ago For seven years, Indigenous communities and environmental groups in Minnesota have fought to stop Canadian oil company Enbridge from building an oil pipeline called Line 3. This pipeline, proposed in 2014, would replace a much older pipeline by the same name, which was built in the 1960s, and has been disastrous for the environment in Minnesota. In 1991, the original Line 3 ruptured, spilling 1.7 million gallons of oil onto the frozen Prairie River in what is to date the largest inland oil spill in United States history; clean-up crews had to use hoses to suck the spilled oil off ...