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If you need someone to talk to during these difficult times or to assist you in navigating your way to help, support is at the end of a phone line, from Monday - Friday, 9-noon and 1-4 EST. pic.twitter.com/lKC359KLgH

— NWAC (@NWAC_CA) August 6, 2021

The law on repatriation of Native American cultural items is broken. Returning that which doesn’t belong to you to the rightful owners is a simple concept—you give it right back. But this extremely limited law has resulted in laughable delay by dilatory museums for what is easy. https://t.co/4QOzwIZCkc

— Brett Chapman (@brettachapman) August 6, 2021

 

Survivors of the St. Michael’s Indian Residential School attended a five-day gathering on the former site of the school.

The gathering was an opportunity to get survivors’ input on what areas need to be searched. | @priscil28509125 https://t.co/V6sHO37zur

— APTN News (@APTNNews) August 6, 2021

 

Whites stole everything associated with land from Native Americans like my great great grandma Alberta Four Eyes. They put 12 oil wells on her land. In 1919 alone, just 1 of the 12 produced $11 million of oil—helping a White oilman control 10% of the world’s oil in 1920. Robbery! pic.twitter.com/LBqzRecGbX

— Brett Chapman (@brettachapman) August 6, 2021

 

"“Boarding schools — along with the entire structure of our churches and government and policing and military — combine to create a particular world. White Christians are safe in that world.” — @gindaanis" https://t.co/k4ITl0w8EI via @sojourners

— Trace kalala Hentz (@StonePony33) July 27, 2021

 

Criminal justice advocates are calling for the murder convictions of two Indigenous women to be immediately overturned.

Odelia Quewezance cut off her hair as a statement – mourning the loss of her and her sister’s freedom. | @Hollyaptn | @brittany_guyothttps://t.co/o0wTpw72NP

— APTN News (@APTNNews) August 6, 2021

 

On the largest tribal nation in Montana, climate change is further diminishing water sources that have been declining for years. “This time, there is no single enemy to fight,” wrote Crow scientists last spring: https://t.co/JmhnjwyK0U

— High Country News (@highcountrynews) August 6, 2021

 

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