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Court rules to cancel energy lease on land sacred to tribes

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Attorneys for a Louisiana oil and gas company have asked a federal judge to reinstate a drilling lease it held on land considered sacred to Native American tribes in the U.S. and Canada.

Cannabis bust on Indigenous land highlights legal divide

A federal raid on a household marijuana garden on tribal land in northern New Mexico is sowing uncertainty and resentment about U.S. drug enforcement priorities on Native American reservations, as more states roll out legal marketplaces for recreational pot sales.

Tensions rise after RCMP clear road of protesters as B.C. pipeline conflict continues

November 18, 2021 Red Power Media, Staff

HOUSTON, B.C. — The access road that has been blockaded by First Nations protesters since Sunday has been cleared by the RCMP and can now be used to bring water and other supplies to more than 500 pipeline workers, Coastal GasLink says.

Indigenous groups have questions about several in-custody deaths in Prince Albert

November 13, 2021 Red Power Media, Staff

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. – Indigenous organizations in Saskatchewan have questions about the Prince Albert Police Service following three in-custody deaths in less than a month.

This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later

November 5, 2021 Red Power Media, Staff

Long marginalized and misrepresented in U.S. history, the Wampanoags are bracing for the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in 1621

Wet’suwet’en members prepare for winter, plan to stay until Coastal GasLink work halted permanently

November 5, 2021 Red Power Media, Staff

CGL’s plans threaten sacred headwaters, says Wet’suwet’en spokesperson at access road checkpoint

Canadian Catholic bishops apologize to Indigenous peoples for residential schools

September 24, 2021 Red Power Media, Staff

Catholic bishops in Canada are apologizing “unequivocally” to Indigenous Peoples for the suffering endured in residential schools, just as Pope Francis prepares to meet with Indigenous leaders at the Vatican later this fall.

Researchers say that TB at residential schools was no accident

July 18, 2021 Red Power Media, Staff

Two experts in tuberculosis say the mass death from TB at residential schools was no accident, but the result of deliberate neglect that was part of Canada’s broader genocidal project.

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