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Water for the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana will have to be treated forever due to contamination by the Zortman-Landusky mines, costing millions of dollars for tax-payers.
International Commission Holds Historic Hearing on Violence Against Native Women in the U.S. – U.S. Officials and Native Advocates Agree Violence Must End WASHINGTON, D.C. -- During an historic hearing dedicated to their missing and murdered Native sisters throughout the Americas, Native women and tribal advocates resorted to an international human rights body to raise global awareness on the epidemic...
Banco Mundial propone nuevo programa de desembolsos que amenaza a los Pueblos Indígenas El propósito de esta carta es alertarles sobre un nuevo desarrollo alarmante en el Banco Mundial, el cual tiene implicaciones serias y negativas para los pueblos indígenas. El Banco Mundial ha propuesto introducir un nuevo programa de desembolsos que eliminara importantes políticas de salvaguarda que protegen a...
The United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs has extended the opportunity for Native leaders and advocates to submit comments regarding the Stand Against Violence and Empower (SAVE) Native Women Act. Comments will now be accepted through Dec. 2, 2011. Video of the Nov. 10, 2011 hearing is available here (hearing begins at 61:00); a summary of the hearing can...
When President Barack Obama announced U.S. support for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on December 16, 2010, it opened up a rare opportunity for Native nations. More than 30 years ago, they told us we couldn't do it. Now there is no country on earth that opposes the Declaration that gives our nations and peoples a...
Nearly a year ago, we shared with you the struggle of the Rapa Nui Nation whom are engaged in a collective effort to recover ancestral lands and regain self-government over clan issues. At the time they were being violently evicted from their traditional lands and sacred sites by Chilean armed forces. In October 2010, the Center filed a request for...
Appellate Brief of the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Tribes, and the Fort Belknap Indian Community. Appellate Brief of the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Tribes, and the Fort Belknap Indian Community in their lawsuit against the United States.
November 30, 2011 WASHINGTON – Nearly 20 years after the Violence Against Women Act was first signed into law, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) introduced bipartisan legislation Wednesday to further strengthen and improve the programs authorized under the landmark law to assist victims and survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The legislation is cosponsored by Senator...
COMMENTARY Robert T. Coulter* It has been just a year since President Obama announced the Administration’s support for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and promised action to implement at least some of those rights. Across the country, tribal governments are seizing the Declaration and using it creatively to protect their lands and resources, and especially their...
December 15, 2011By Rachel BuxtonNo one wants to think about physical assaults happening to someone they know or even happening to themselves. However, out of any ethnic or racial group in the U.S., Native women face the highest rates of sexual violence and physical assault.One out of three Native women will be raped in her lifetime, and three out of...