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We haven’t seen an attack on tribal treaty rights like this by the State of Washington in a very long time… [Attorney General] Ferguson has gone out of his way…
read moreIn an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of tribal sovereignty and resource protection, the Seattle Times editorial board conflates treaty fishing rights of Northwest Indians with undue political influence. Rather…
read moreIn 1966, a Black entertainer named Dick Gregory went to jail for six months in Olympia WA for supporting Northwest Indians in their fight to keep their treaty-reserved fishing rights….
read moreHopi Navajo Ute and Zuni governments prepare for battle with Interior Department over Bears Ears National Monument.
read moreAs noted in The Walrus, “the principled politician who engaged with Idle No More protesters became the Prime Minister who boasted about building pipelines through our lands.”
read moreThe WA GOP Senate is currently holding the capital budget hostage over the WA Supreme Court ruling on water rights. This is the focus of CERA recruitment, not fossil fuel…
read moreAs Dena Jensen reports, William Honea, Skagit County senior deputy prosecuting attorney –in justifying the CERA anti-Indian workshop in Mount Vernon on May 20–falsely attributed an incendiary quote to Swinomish…
read moreAs the Indian Law and Policy Center reports, termination of Indian tribes as sovereign political entities is endemic in the current presidential administration. Taken as a whole, the agenda of…
read moreInterior Secretary Zinke says it’s time to make tribes corporations in order to accelerate coal and gas mining.
read moreExpect increasing conflict between energy tribes and environmental justice tribes.
read moreThe library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.
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