Totem pole travels to unite Native struggles
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
Natural resource extraction, climate change and “unbridled development” are the main threats to indigenous land, according to Caddo Native Judith LeBlanc, director of the Native Organizers Alliance, sponsor of the Red Road to D.C. project.
KXL Victory Celebrations Roll Across the Great Plains
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
The Keystone XL victory was sweet for Native pipeline foes in unceded Lakota treaty territory, and a month later, they were still celebrating.
Treaty People Gathering boosts pressure on disputed oil pipeline
By Eric Warren, Angel Amaya, Jessica Plance, Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
Massive direct actions to stop Line 3 tar-sands crude-oil pipeline construction here in Native Anishinaabe ancestral territory launched a weeklong Treaty People Gathering on June 7.
LaDonna fights on in the resistance of Native youth
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
As the Standing Rock Sioux Nation prepared for services April 16-19 honoring late water protector LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Native youth carried on the crusade to defend treaty land from pipeline construction
Oak Flat: Fresh hope for menaced Apache sacred land
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
To make good on Joe Biden’s recent Presidential Memorandum for tribal consultation and strengthening nation-to-nation relationships, the U.S. Forest Service has rescinded its permit for a massive foreign copper mine that would engulf sacred Apache sites here.
Tokata Iron Eyes stars at Black Hills Film Festival
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
Lakota youth pipeline fighter and climate justice advocate Tokata Iron Eyes stars in “My Name Is Future,” a new independent feature documentary that fuses her worldview with the art of Los Angeles-based activist Andrea Bowers.
Keystone XL Cancellation: Honoring the Treaties?
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
Utterances of relief and gratitude rippled through Indian Country on Inaugural Day Jan. 20, as U.S. President Joe Biden announced an executive order revoking the Keystone XL Pipeline’s permit for construction opposed by tribes along its proposed route through unceded 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty territory.
Lakota call out inequity in law enforcement at U.S. Capitol riot
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
The difference in law enforcement handling of peaceful Native pipeline resisters compared to that of the violent mob that breached the U.S. Capitol Building was an inequity not lost on Indian Country.