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The nation’s oldest and largest #Indigenous sorority is bracing for #DEI orders

#AlphaPiOmega is helping young #NativeAmerican women grow strong in their identities — but their future on college campuses is in question.

Alexis Wray
Published May 12, 2025

Excerpt: "#DEI initiatives in education, government and workplaces are continuing to be targeted by #Republican lawmakers across the country; in #NorthCarolina there are multiple bills filed, some targeting #HigherEducation institutions.

"Senate Bill 558, also known as the 'Eliminating ‘DEI’ in Public Higher Education,' would require the University of North Carolina system and local community colleges to prohibit certain concepts and efforts associated with DEI. The Senate passed the bill and now it heads to the House of Representatives for consideration. Because of the vague nature of the bill, if passed the language has to be finalized before enacted.

" 'We want to have schools that are able to inspire, teach and engage students from different backgrounds, experiences and identities and Indigenous students are an important part of that,' Robinson said.

" 'We want there to be programs and support that can speak to the Indigenous perspective and experience. We’re going to potentially lose that and all these different tools that have been built up over the last several decades to successfully support and mentor any number of different students, including Native students.' "

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19thnews.org/2025/05/alpha-pi-

The 19th · The nation’s oldest and largest Indigenous sorority is bracing for DEI ordersBy Alexis Wray

Brown University: Collaborative project yields new digital archive on hidden history of Indigenous enslavement. “Long a password-protected database used mostly by researchers and people looking for ancestors, Stolen Relations is set to go public on Saturday, May 10, as part of a symposium at Brown. When it does, anyone in the world will be able to access its 7,000 records, a collection of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/11/brown-university-collaborative-project-yields-new-digital-archive-on-hidden-history-of-indigenous-enslavement/

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BREAKING: Federal court halts destruction of #OakFlat

Judge blocks feds’ rush to transfer #Indigenous #SacredSite to foreign mining giant for destruction

By #BecketLaw, Censored News, May 9, 2025

WASHINGTON – "A federal court today blocked the U.S. government from plowing ahead with plans to hand over the #WesternApaches’ most sacred site at Oak Flat to a multinational mining giant for destruction."

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bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05

#CensoredNews #ReaderSupportedNews
#SaveOakFlat #ProtectOakFlat
#ProtectTheSacred #ApachStronghold #NativeAmericanNews #NativeAmericans
#RioTinto #CopperMining #Arizona #LeaveItInTheGround #ChichilBildagoteel

Songs to call the #whales: "Even when the Tribe wasn’t #whaling, the spiritual connection between the #Makah and the whale spirits was kept alive in the form of sacred whaling songs"—The Makah Tribe Resumes the Sacred Practice of Whaling (Yes! Magazine)

#NativeAmericans #spirituality #SacredSongs
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YES! Magazine · The Makah Tribe Is Calling Back the WhalesBy Frank Hopper

URGENT! #PhoenixArizona - #ApacheStronghold: Run from Oak Flat to Phoenix Courthouse, Run Begins May 4, 2025

By Wendsler Nosie, Sr., Apache Stronghold
Censored News, April 29, 2025

"I am putting out the call to all spiritual runners (runners and walkers), Native and nonnative, to stop the destruction of Chi'chil Bildagoteel. Oak Flat is now on death row!

"On Sunday, May 4th, Spiritual runners will begin the trek from Oak Flat to the Federal court house, Sandra Day O’Connor Court Building, for the Apache Stronghold vs. U. S. hearing, asking for a preliminary injunction to stop the land transfer of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, because of the US Forest Service intention to publish the Federal environmental impact statement before June 16 -- which allows a foreign mining company, #ResolutionCopper, to take possession of the land!

"The hearing is scheduled for May 7th at 9:30 am.

"In the next few days the details will be finalized for the run . Take a stand for future generations. Save this Sacred site for the next generation. This is urgent. Please contact us for more information or let us know you are coming.

"No drugs or alcohol. This is a spiritual journey.

"Please, please share this post we don’t have a lot of time. Your help in gathering people together is important. Blessings."

bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04

bsnorrell.blogspot.comApache Stronghold: Run from Oak Flat to Phoenix Courthouse, Run Begins May 4, 2025Censored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.
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At a meeting of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), the U.S. counselor for economic and social affairs, Edward Heartney, touted President Donald Trump as a protector of Indigenous women. It didn’t go well. @Toastie reports for @HighCountryNew about this, and some of the other speeches at the annual meeting. Heartney slipped out in the silence immediately after he spoke. Had he waited, he would have heard what sounded like a direct rebuff to his statement, though it was written in advance. “The U.S. has opened the coastal plain to oil and gas leasing, threatening our very survival,” said model and land protector Quannah ChasingHorse on behalf of the Gwich’in Steering Committee. “The Gwich’in have never given consent for development, and our right to self-determination is being violated by interests that view our lands as a commodity,” ChasingHorse continued. “I am outraged that decisions about my people’s future are being made without us at the table.”

hcn.org/articles/pro-trump-sta

High Country News · Trump admin speaker at UNPFII met with silenceBy B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster