Two U.S. congress people will propose in the coming weeks a bill that would see thousands of acres of Indigenous lands turned into oil drilling zones.

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Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: On Saturday in North Dakota, security guards working for the Dakota Access pipeline company attacked Native Americans with dogs and pepper spray as they resisted the $3.8 billion pipeline s construction. The land that Dakota Access bulldozed on Saturday was a tribal burial site.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37507-dakota-access-pipeline-company-attacks-native-americans-with-dogs-and-pepper-spray



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Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: In North Dakota, Indigenous activists from dozens of different tribes are protesting a proposed pipeline, which they say would threaten to contaminate the Missouri River. The protests have shut down construction along parts of the pipeline.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37339-standing-rock-sioux-chairman-dakota-access-pipeline-is-threatening-the-lives-of-my-tribe



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Pamela D. Palmater, teleSUR: For decades, the primary focus of anti-mining, logging and oil-and-gas activists has been on the environmental destruction left behind by the extractive industry. What is less known by the general public are the unique traumas experienced by Indigenous women when corporations invade their lands and their bodies.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/37315-corporate-conquistadors-violate-indigenous-lands-and-bodies



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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, History News Network: The form of colonialism that the Indigenous peoples of North America have experienced has been modern from the beginning: the expansion of European corporations, backed by government armies, into foreign areas, with subsequent expropriation of lands and resources. Settler colonialism requires a genocidal policy.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/36257-yes-native-americans-were-the-victims-of-genocide



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Rucha Chitnis, Indian Country Today Media Network: Ann Marie Sayers is a rare example of a Native woman who continues to live in her ancestral land. California Indians suffered a brutal history of colonization, diseases and heinous violence and servitude during the Gold Rush and California Missions era.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33194-in-the-land-of-my-ancestors-native-woman-stands-her-ground-in-ohlone-territory

By Finian Cunningham

Today the Navajo and their Apache cousins are once again under threat.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42741.htm



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Dozens of Diné (Navajo) took action to resist U.S. Senator John McCain s attempts to steal precious water and desecrate sacred lands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=77&v=xlkEraYbUko


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s.e. smith, Care2: Earlier this month, Denver police shot and killed Paul Castaway, a Lakota Sioux man living with mental illness. His case illustrates two issues that are flying under the radar: that more than half of fatal shootings involve mentally ill people, and that Native Americans are statistically more at risk of dying in police shootings than other racial groups.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32120-police-shoot-and-kill-mentally-ill-native-american-man



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