Mikisew Cree First Nation and ...

Jan 7, 2013 by

The Globe and Mail reports, “The Mikisew Cree First Nation and the Frog Lake First Nation will file documents in Federal Court on...

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Rising anger of Canada’s...

Jan 6, 2013 by

Chronic underfunding of essential services and fears over land losses prompt Attawapiskat chief to go on hunger strike When images of...

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Canadian PM to meet First Nati...

Jan 6, 2013 by

Idle No More movement began as campaign by four women against changes to Indian Act and environmental deregulation The Canadian prime...

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Defenders of the Land: Indigen...

Jan 6, 2013 by

January 5, 2013 Defenders of the Land, a network of Indigenous communities and activists in land struggle across Canada, including...

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Another Looming Cliff of Grave...

Jan 5, 2013 by

By Robert Redford, Reader Supported News 04 January 13 The wake up call that Hurricane Sandy gave us was but one of many just in the...

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Wisconsin’s Mining Moratorium ...

Jan 4, 2013 by

Al Gedicks and Dave Blouin Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and the mining industry have begun a major lobbying effort to overturn...

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Help the Guna of Panama Save T...

Jan 3, 2013 by

Indigenous Music to Save Turtles The Guna have been doing conservation the right way for hundreds of years It is only...

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Application for a Presidential...

Jan 3, 2013 by

“We intend to fight this expansion….Enbridge is planning to reverse other pipelines to make this extra oil flow to the...

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Canada’s Indigenous Move...

Jan 2, 2013 by

Are the country’s First Nations groups being denied their rights and being targeted by the government? Canada’s Idle No...

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Coal Mine Expansion Would Deci...

Jan 2, 2013 by

Conservation groups are gearing up to protect a forested roadless area and lynx habitat threatened with destruction by recent federal...

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Shell Drilling Ship Salvage Im...

Jan 2, 2013 by

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — High seas and strong winds prevented crews from boarding an oil drilling ship to check for any damage after...

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Yellowstone River Oil Spill

Jan 2, 2013 by

Delayed Response From Exxon Made Matters Worse, Feds Say BILLINGS, Mont. — Delays in Exxon Mobil Corp.’s response to a major...

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Haudenosaunee Hold Idle No Mor...

Dec 29, 2012 by

Citizens of the six nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and their non-Native supporters joined hands in a flash mob Round Dance...

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Awake, Hungry and Idle No More

Dec 26, 2012 by

By Naomi Klein, NaomiKlein.org 26 December 12 I woke up just past midnight with a bolt. My six-month-old son was crying. He has a cold...

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Clayton Thomas-Muller #IdleNoM...

Dec 22, 2012 by

Harper said sorry for residential schools…yeah, we remember that sound bite! Harper is not the first white man to try to placate...

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Tar Sands In Minnesota

Dec 22, 2012 by

Marty Cobenais, Pipeline Organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network talks about Minnesota and Tar Sands pipelines in the...

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Thousands expected at Ottawa p...

Dec 19, 2012 by

First Nations people and their supporters are uniting under the banner Idle No More against the federal government’s changes to...

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No plans for formal consultati...

Dec 10, 2012 by

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has no formal plans to consult with stakeholders on new regulations or partnerships to...

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Water protections lost under H...

Dec 10, 2012 by

Postmedia News reports, “The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has no formal plans to consult with stakeholders on new regulations...

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Climate Activists Press Confer...

Dec 7, 2012 by

Press Statement of Tom BK Goldtooth, Executive Director, Indigenous Environmental Network United Nations Framework Convention on...

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Memorandum to Collaborate to P...

Dec 6, 2012 by

Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, and Interior Sign Memorandum to Collaborate to Protect Indian Sacred Sites News Release...

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Shale Oil Boom in North Dakota...

Dec 3, 2012 by

by James William Gibson – December 3, 2012 Tribal members complain they aren’t receiving profits from oil rush In just five years...

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Quebec-Ontario pipeline will c...

Nov 30, 2012 by

Enbridge wants to reverse flow of pipeline, ship more crude through it Canadian press November 30, 2012 MONTREAL — A number of...

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Contaminated Culture

Nov 20, 2012 by

Native People Struggle With Tainted Resources, Lost Identity By Brian Bienkowski, Environmental Health News October 30, 2012 For the...

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Struggle to Stop a New Refiner...

Nov 8, 2012 by

Kandi Mossett, organizer with Indigenous Environmental Network and citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation, discusses the...

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Communities Across US Stand wi...

Nov 7, 2012 by

To add your organization’s name to this statement, email michelle@movementgeneration.org We, community-based organizations and...

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Re-election of US President Ba...

Nov 7, 2012 by

On November 8th Earth Watch we speak to Tom Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network about what President Barack...

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Climate Change Threatens the O...

Nov 2, 2012 by

By Mary Annette Pember November 2, 2012 From Indian Country Today It’s difficult to imagine a year without manoomin on the Bad River...

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Exposing REDD :: The False Cli...

Oct 22, 2012 by

Watch and Share this informative video! During the week of October 22, 2012, The Mending News released a 7:25 minute video on the...

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You heard it here: Northern Ga...

Oct 21, 2012 by

BY JEFFREY SIMPSON The Northern Gateway pipeline that Enbridge proposes to build from Alberta’s bitumen oil to the Pacific coast of...

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Uranium Mine by Pine Ridge Nea...

Oct 18, 2012 by

State to rule Oct. 31 on request Thursday, October 18, 2012 The following story was written and reported by Talli Nauman, Native Sun...

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Nobel Women’s Initiative...

Oct 11, 2012 by

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vecK6RfBuSQ&feature=share&list=PL_Wmv4OJ0_cLSJsLIJhTkNVhiiak6sFSf”

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REDDelion-CHIAPAS To Host a Pe...

Sep 25, 2012 by

24 September, 2012 During a week of open public forums, community groups, academics, and civil society organizations will gather in...

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Sustainable Tuesdays

Sep 1, 2012 by

In January 2012 IEN and partners from the Minnesota Green Corps and the RailRiver Folk School began a weekly educational forum on...

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Update on the Indigenous Food ...

Aug 2, 2012 by

Recently I heard someone say this simple and profound statement: “A nation cannot be sovereign if it cannot feed its people” More...

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Council votes down proposed wa...

Jul 26, 2012 by

By Marley Shebala WINDOW ROCK, July 5, 2012 The Navajo Nation Council voted down the proposed Navajo-Hopi Little Colorado River Water...

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Kandi Mossett Report Back: Rio...

Jul 20, 2012 by

Kandi Mossett’s interview on American Indian Airwaves Issues Discussed: Rio+20 Keystone XL Hydraulic Fracturing (oil and...

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People’s Summit, Rio de Janeir...

Jul 6, 2012 by

June 21, 2012 We, movements for the defense of water and Mother Earth gathered at the Blue Pavilion inside the Cúpula dos Povos,...

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Photos courtesy of Ben Powless...

Jul 2, 2012 by

The photos taken during the signing and the presentation of the Kari-Oca Declaration to officials at the UN RIO+20 Summit in Brazil in...

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Presentation of Kari-Oca II De...

Jun 27, 2012 by

At the United Nations Earth Summit Rio+20, Indigenous Peoples from throughout the world converged at Kari-Oca village to articulate...

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Kari Oca II Blessing of the De...

Jun 27, 2012 by

Blessing ceremony of the historical Kari Oca II Declaration, Kari-Oka Village, at Sacred Kari-Oka Púku, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20...

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PEOPLES’ SUMMIT FOR SOCIAL AND...

Jun 22, 2012 by

LETTER OF RIO DE JANEIRO FINAL DECLARATION OF FREE LAND CAMP IX – LIVING WELL / HEALTHY FULL LIFE Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 15 to 22...

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Greenpeace & REDOIL Press...

Jun 22, 2012 by

Statement of Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands (REDOIL) RIO + 20 Shell Oil and the Arctic Resisting...

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KARI-OCA 2 DECLARATION

Jun 21, 2012 by

“INDIGENOUS PEOPLES GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON RIO+20 AND MOTHER EARTH” Haga clic aquí para leer en español. Clique aqui para ler em...

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Indigenous Peoples Set to Deli...

Jun 21, 2012 by

Media Advisory 20 June 2012 Indigenous Peoples Set to Deliver Kari-Oca II Declaration to Rio+20 Leaders   Indigenous Peoples will...

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Protests, appeals sideline pol...

Jun 21, 2012 by

AFP – World leaders were elbowed out of the spotlight at the Earth summit on Thursday as civil society blasted corporate...

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Indigenous Peoples Internation...

Jun 20, 2012 by

Wednesday, 20 June, 2012 Indigenous Peoples from all regions of the world met at the “Indigenous Peoples International Conference...

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International Indigenous Peopl...

Jun 20, 2012 by

PRESS ADVISORY June 21, 2012 International Indigenous Peoples Submit Kari-Oca II Declaration to UNCSD Over 500 indigenous peoples from...

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Declaration of Kari-Oca II ado...

Jun 18, 2012 by

By Jeff Conant, for Climate Connections Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 19, 2012 – Over five hundred Indigenous Peoples from Brazil and...

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“Join me in Earth Revolu...

Jun 16, 2012 by

As the youth gathered to pronounce the failure of the Rio + 20 outcomes document, it was Ta’Kaiya, hoisted on the shoulders of her...

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