This year marks the 150th anniversary of the treaty negotiated by Washington Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens and Northwest Indian tribes. The tribes traded 64 million acres of land for the… Read more »
indigenous struggles
No to radioactive garbage on Native land!
On September 9, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved a permit for a nuclear waste dump on the tiny Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in western Utah. A consortium of nuclear power… Read more »
2006 Political Resolution of the Freedom Socialist Party — One Hemisphere Indivisible
One Hemisphere Undivided was written on behalf of the Freedom Socialist Party National Committee. It was discussed and adopted at the January 2006 FSP convention. Originally published as a special… Read more »
Gays of color: putting the motion in the movement
Two courageous members of the Cherokee tribe, Kathy Reynolds and Dawn McKinley, are fighting to have their lesbian relationship recognized — and they are winning. These women are making their… Read more »
Six Nations reclaim their land in Ontario
On March 3, led by clan mothers, members of the Six Nations set up camp outside Caledonia, Ontario, to protest the illegal sale of their land by the Canadian government… Read more »
Mexico seeks to “pacify” Atenco campesinos
When the organized villagers of Atenco wielded machetes and stopped a major land grab, foiled Mexican capitalists were not pleased. That happened in 2002, when the townspeople created the Frente… Read more »
Fresh radical leadership for the indigenous movement
Last March, Australia’s conservative Prime Minister, John Howard, celebrated ten years in office. The same month, Indigenous people and their supporters held two weeks of protests to highlight that the… Read more »
Still unresolved, the Six Nations land claim in Ontario continues to draw widespread support
The intense standoff near the town of Caledonia between Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the Six Nations people protesting the illegal occupation of their land by a developer has eased… Read more »
An overdue victory for Aboriginal Australians
It’s taken over 200 years, but at last an Australian First Nation has won court recognition of sovereignty over a major urban area. In September, a judge ruled that the… Read more »
Stop Australia’s brutal grab of Aboriginal land!
Australia is reviving its bloody history of military takeover and genocide. Prime Minister John Howard’s conservative government has begun an invasion, endorsed by the Labor Party, of all Aboriginal land… Read more »
