@lovendures Thank you for sharing. Extremely upsetting. January can't come soon enough.
@lovendures so very upsetting and an evil act that will be righted in January. To live w this constant threat of helplessness and ever present dismissal is inexcusable. We stopped a similar threat to the Wampanoag tribe here on Cape Cod.
If you know of any info re emailing and/or numbers to call in protest, please pass it along. I’m happy to do my small part. I will research also when I get out from under our Outer Cape campaign to oust a convicted felon from cty govt. Ugh.
Hello neighbor! I lived in Plymouth between September 2019 and this past August, and I attended several of the virtual webinars the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe held about the federal effort to take control of their reservation land. (I'm in Rhode Island now, btw.)
You're right, this latest federal power grab in Indian Country will be one of those day 1 things that's reversed by the next administration
I heard about this, its being appealed by the current administration and it still in the courts, I could not find out when the case is scheduled to be heard. However given the current environment, we may be optimistic that the case will be heard after the new administration is sworn in. we can only hope..
https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/08/02/appeals-ruling-massachusetts-mashpee-wampanoag-case
The Department of the Interior is appealing a federal judge's ruling that blocked it from rescinding a reservation designation for land belonging to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in Massachusetts.
The Cape Cod Times reports the appeal was filed Friday (August 21) in the U.S. District Court for the District on Columbia.
In June a federal judge stopped the federal government from rescinding its reservation designation.
"Without providing the Tribe with any warning, and without providing justification or reasoning, the Secretary's action, unfortunately, is consistent with this Administration's constant failure to acknowledge or address the history of injustice against our Tribe and all Native Americans, and its utter lack of interest in protecting tribal lands," Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council Chairman Cedric Cromwell said in a statement.
@coyote Hi Coyote! We’re in Eastham, moved permanently in ‘17. Always feel blessed to be in this healing natural place. I’m embarrassed to say we still haven’t visited Plymouth which was to be this year. p.s. I’ve been reading your inspirational and intriguing posts/visions/predictions/life experiences for a while now and am truly happy to “meet” you.
@deborah.carey I didn’t realize there was another round of opposition but am not surprised. Ugh. I usually see updates on our Indivisible Outer Cape fb pg, of which I am a member. So many freaking fires to put out. Aaaaarrrgggghhhh! We WILL be victorious!
Biden and Harris went to Arizona and met with many different tribal leaders from a variety of Indian Nations.
SO many wonderful things happened in this meeting.
Here is a bit, more at the link below.
Hopi Tribal Chairman Timothy Nuvangyaoma said, "it spoke volumes that they chose to meet with tribal nations, with some of the tribal leaders here in Arizona, to understand and maybe learn a little bit more about some of the impacts on us."
Biden's plan offers proposals to remedy health care disparities, address climate change, restore tribal lands and clean up hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines. Biden would also work to ensure Native peoples' right to vote, protect cultural areas and increase resources to make tribal communities safer.
“The United States of America was founded on the notion of equality for all,” the document begins. “We've always strived to meet that ideal, but never fully lived up to it. Throughout our history, this promise has been denied to Native Americans who have lived on this land since time immemorial.”
Biden also promised to appoint more Native people to high-level government positions beyond the usual Indian agencies
I love these kinds of stories
Swift foxes have been absent from the shortgrass prairie of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in northern Montana for more than half a century. But last month, that changed when the Assiniboine (Nakoda) and Gros Ventre (Aaniiih) Tribes of Fort Belknap reintroduced 27 swift foxes to the reservation, restoring a piece of the Great Plains ecosystem and a part of the tribes’ natural heritage.
For the tribes of Fort Belknap, restoring and maintaining their natural environment has been a priority for decades. The tribes reintroduced buffalo to the reservation’s 675,147 acres of prairie in the 1970s and the herd, centered around a 22,000-acre plot at Snake Butte, is now close to 800 strong. Fort Belknap also brought back black-footed ferrets via reintroductions in the 1990s and early 2000s.
“We don’t look at animals as just four legged or winged, we look at them as family,” says Fox. “For us it was like part of our family was missing all those years. Bringing the buffalo, the black-footed ferret and now the swift fox back, bringing those family members back home, connects us to our history with this land. It gives us a lot of pride as Natives.”
This has the potential of being really good news. It is long over due.
Sovereign will chronicles the lives, loves and loyalties of a sprawling Indigenous family struggling to control the future of their tribe against outside forces and themselves.
This collaborative and groundbreaking project offers a different perspective into the lives of Native people and emphasizes the importance of representation both on and off screen.
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Who are our water and earth protectors?
Many are Indigenous People. But there are others.
The Wilderness Society has been one for quite some time. I will periodically get emails from them about important issues they want to bring to the collectives attention in the hopes that they will contact the appropriated political representative or corporation to either take or not take action. I received a plea today which I found interesting. It was to act and urge Chevron to NOT build an oil rigs in the Arctic Refuge which the Lame Duck Trump Administration wants to open up.
As you read it, notice how many different types of groups are now joining to together to do the right thing for the Arctic refuge which is so sacred. Indigenous people, environmental organizations and even major banks are making their voices heard. Not only will the opening of the refuge endanger the land and water, it will likely destroy wildlife. No matter how "safe" the oil corporations claim their profession is, they ALWYAS have spills. Our indigenous people will suffer great harm as well as their lands connect to these regions and they have many sacred lands which will be destroyed as well. .
I ask all of you. Keep informed. Act. Spread knowledge. Learn about ALL environmental issues.
Do not allow yourself to be burnt out right now. There are things we can do at this moment to help our Mother Earth and all those for whom she lovingly provides a home. We don't need to place our bodies between machines and the land to help as those brave water protectors did at Standing Rock. But it is our moral imperative to act. So I ask you, educate yourself, pay attention and take some sort of action.
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