Here.
NYTs: “Border Wall Would Cleave Tribe, and Its Connection to Ancestral Land”
Here.
News
Moyers & Co.: “The Trump Administration’s Lies About Voter Fraud Will Lead to Massive Voter Suppression”
Lies have a purpose.
Here.
HUNAP: “SpearChief-Morris Becomes First Indigenous Student President of Harvard Law School’s Legal Aid Bureau”
Here.
Congressional Resolution Aimed at Creating Awareness on Missing and Murdered American Indian and Alaska Native Women
Press release available press-release-hill-briefing-2_16_17
From the press release:
“Indigenous women go missing twice—once in real life and a second time in the news” said Amanda Takes War Bonnet, Public Education Specialist of the Native Women’s Society of the Great Plains. War Bonnet was part of a panel during the Moving Ahead In Addressing Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women and Efforts to Address Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls congressional briefing held Feb. 15, to provided legislators and the public with an overview of this urgent issue. . . .
To help bring attention to these tragic, often undocumented crimes, Montana Senators Steve Daines and Jon Tester introduced Senate Resolution 60 on Monday, Feb. 13 — a resolution calling for the designation of May 5, 2017 as a “National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls.” Senators James Lankford (OK), Cory Gardner (CO), Al Franken (MN), John Hoeven (ND), and Tom Udall (NM) co-sponsored the resolution. Speaking at the briefing, Sen. Daines noted that May 5th was chosen because it is the birthday of Hanna Harris, a Northern Cheyenne woman who went missing in July 2013 and was found murdered several days later. . . .
Nearly 200 tribal, national, and state organizations have supported the resolution, which calls for designating May 5, 2017 as a day to honor the lives of those missing and murdered and demonstrate solidarity with families that have lost a loved one through violence. Speakers urged participants to contact their Senators and ask them to co-sponsor the resolution.
Monte Mills: “How will Native tribes fight the Dakota Access Pipeline in court?”
Here, at PBS.
An excerpt:
Although the details of those arguments will be complex, as a legal scholar focused on Native American law I see the case addressing an essential question at the heart of our legal system: namely, how does federal law and judicial process protect the fundamental values and structure of the Constitution?
Standing Rock Denounces Army Easement Announcement, Vows Court Challenge
Download(PDF): Press Release
Next steps for Tribe and allies:
- The Tribe will challenge any easement decision on the grounds that the EIS was
wrongfully terminated. The Tribe will demand a fair, accurate and lawful environmental impact statement to identify true risks to its treaty rights, including its water supply and sacred places. - The Tribe has asked the court for DAPL to disclose its oil spill and risk assessment
records for full transparency and review by the public. - If DAPL is successful in constructing and operating the pipeline, the Tribe will seek to
shut the pipeline operations down. - A Native Nations march on Washington is scheduled for March 10. The Standing Rock
Sioux Tribe and tribes across the country invite allies in America and from around the
world to join the march.
Human Shields at Standing Rock
Here.
Turtle Talk 
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