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by Samuel Gomes Rodrigues Jr. Across the United States the subjugation, exploitation, and oppression of women has been long overlooked and ignored. This is especially true for Indigenous American girls and women. Indigenous American cisgender girls, similar to most Indigenous American youth, struggle immensely with poverty and homelessness. Many of them often are raised in […]

By Lee Lightfoot Since Trump took office a year ago, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has seen an unprecedented expansion since the original enactment of the Homeland Security Act, in 2002. Receiving a larger budget from congressional funding for wide-scale detention and enforcement, over the past few months, numerous Indigenous tribal members have been

The Miccosukee Tribe has lived in Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve since time immemorial. Today, 640 tribal members still call the Everglades home.  Their ancestral home now has an unwanted neighbor: a massive immigrant detention center that sits less than 1,000 feet from Miccosukee villages. It was hurriedly built by the state with encouragement and

The US Supreme Court Will Not Hear Case to Save Oak Flat The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday announced it has declined to hear Apache Stronghold v. United States, a case that could have shielded the sacred Western Apache site of Oak Flat from being turned into a massive copper mine. The decision clears

“It’s the women who have led. I just have a feeling, a very strong feeling, that if ever this world is civilized, it would be more the work of women.” — Emma Tenayuca, interview with Jerry Poyo, February 21, 1987, Oral History Program, Institute of Texan Culture Social justice, labor and education activist Emma Beatrice