Advocacy
How to Write a Land Acknowledgment That Means Something
Many organizations now open meetings with a land acknowledgment, and many Native people now roll their eyes when they hear one.
Advocacy and rights writer
Sarah covers Indigenous rights movements, treaty law and political advocacy. She has reported on campaigns from Standing Rock to mascot reform and writes about the practical work of building coalitions.
Advocacy
Many organizations now open meetings with a land acknowledgment, and many Native people now roll their eyes when they hear one.
History
In early 1978, a set of bills sat in Congress that would have cancelled treaty rights, cut tribal water and fishing claims, and...
Environment
In 1850, one of the first laws passed by the new state of California made it a crime for Native people to set fire to the land.
Advocacy
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, surveys by the Association on American Indian Affairs found that between 25 and 35 percent...
History
Every Thanksgiving morning, before dawn, a few thousand people take ferries across San Francisco Bay to a former federal prison...
Education
A fourth grade class arrives at a tribal cultural center with a worksheet titled "How the Indians Lived." Within ten minutes,...