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A Joint Government Board from the INPI highlights the approval of the Constitutional Reform on the rights of Indigenous Peoples and Afro-Mexicans

🇲🇽: The National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI) approves the reform to article 2 of the constitution. In their 4th meeting, changed their statute to align with article 2. Adelfo Regino Montes (Mixe) stated that this will help the INPI provide funds and autonomy for Native and Afro-Mexicans.

The prosecution in the case Golpe de Estado I against Camacho and Pumari enters its final phase - Ahora El Pueblo

🇧🇴: Trial against coup leaders in Bolivia in its final part! Final arguments will be made in the case “Golpe de Estado I” against Fernando Camacho & Marco Pumari for organizing the coup against Native pres Evo Morales. The govt wants a guilty verdict to set a precedent. The case began on 17 Oct 2024

Disappearance of 4 Afro-Ecuadorian children after detention by military has sparked mass indignation - People's Dispatch

🇪🇨: Black and Native Ecuadorians mourned. 4 Black children in Guayaquil, Ecuador, were detained and unalived by 16 military officers as part of President Noboa’s war on gangs. Their bodies were found burned. Protests were held outside the Prosecutor’s office demanding justice for the four children.

Juliaca a dos años de una histórica masacre - Ojo Público

🇵🇪: Natives mourned a massacre led by the Peruvian gov’t. The Association of Martyrs and Victims of January 9th led a 3 day protest after 2 years of a massacre of 19 Indigenous people in Juliaca, Puno. They were protesting a coup against Pres. Pedro Castillo. A massacre was also done in Ayacucho.

Government authorize hiring 1900 temporary civil servants to ensure protection of Indigenous lands - Mongabay News

🇧🇷: President Lula da Silva is sending over 1900 civil servants to protect Indigenous peoples from Brazilian settlers. The move done by the gov’t FUNAI hires these temporary workers to strengthen court cases in favor of Natives such as in Munduruku, Pará, which has seen a rise of illegal mining

Democracy Now - "We have a Territories and Colonies Problem" Del. Plaskett Blasts Silencing of 4 Million US Citizens

US: Congress told it has a “colonies problem”. Virgin Islands delegate Stacey Plaskett blasted Congress after her and other territory delegates were denied a vote, then her mike was abruptly cut. People in US colonies or “territories” like Puerto Rico, Guam, & Virgin Islands have less voting rights

Feds Back Shinnecock Land Rights, possibly derailing state and local lawsuits - Native News Online Billboard saying " Welcome to the Shinnecock Indian Nation Restricted Fee Aboriginal Territory 18 USC 1151 "Indian Country"

US: Land Back victory for Shinnecock Indian Nation! The Bureau of Indian Affairs designated the 104 acres known as Westwoods as tribal land that denies local and state control over Shinnecock sovereignty. This may overturn a NY state court ruling against a tribal billboard saying “Indian Country”

Shinnecock protestors and allies arguing for the protection of Indigenous shinnecock lands holding placards and the flag of the tribe

This is the Indigenous news you haven't heard about from across Abya Yala (The Americas): 12 Jan 2025 🌎

California tribe becomes the furst to manage land with National Park Service: Yurok Tribe, which had 90% of its territory taken during the gold rush, will get 125 acres returned after it was stolen in the mid-1800s. Associated Press Wed 20 Mar 2024

Some good Indigenous news! The Yurok Tribe of California will get 125 acres of its #landback and be the 1st US tribe to co-manage it with the National Park Service. The sacred land, stoIen to extract redwood trees and gold, will now be used by the Yurok for ceremony and environmental education

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🇭🇳: Natives in Honduras say they’ll keep fighting a maximum security prison in 2025. After a month of protest, the Miskito people say they’re united in preventing the prison’s construction on their land. Miskito leader Mirna Wood stated they will go to the capital Tegucigalpa to increase pressure.

2 officers chargwd for the death of a soldier and detention of an Indigenous leader in Colombia - Infobae news

🇨🇴: 2 Police officers are charged with unaliving a soldier and illegally detaining a Native leader. The acts which occurred on 27 Feb saw the offices use excessive force and the Indigenous leader Luis Evelio Rodríguez’s rights violated. Colombia’s Prosecutor Office will now take both to court.

Following attacks recieved due to photos of her vacation in Paris, Indigenous senator Martha Peralta proposed exporting Wayuu shawls to Europe: She called textile weavers and artists to a meeting - Infobae news

🇨🇴: After racist attacks for her trip to Paris, Colombian Senator Martha Peralta counter attacked saying she’ll take Native fashion to Paris. The Wayuu leader called on artisans and designers to meet with the gov’t to popularize Wayuu fashion in Paris. Pres. Petro supports the plan.

President Arce (center) calls for unity and reaffirms his work for an industrialized Bolivia - Ahora El Pueblo

🇧🇴: Bolivia’s govt and Indigenous ministers call for unity this new year. President Luis Arce VP David Choquehuanca, Indigenous minister Esperanza Guevara, among others, call for lithium industrialization, Native agriculture sovereignty, and anti-imperialism on Bolivia’s 200 yr anniversary (1825).

"In 10 years we may cease to exist': rising seas and influx of tourists threaten to engulf Panama Island - Paul Boyer (The Guardian)

🇵🇦: Natives threatened with extinction in Panamá. The Guna people face climate changes, tourism, & resource extraction, threatening their existence on their islands. 300 were already displaced from Gardi Sugdub island due to rising sea levels. The Guna were the ones who coined the term Abya Yala.

Video of HR 1101 Lumbee Fairness Act with a background of the Capitol building complex

US: Federal recognition for the Lumbee Tribe passes the House of Representatives! The Lumbee Fairness Act or H.R.1101, which raises Lumbees from state to federal recognition, was voted by the House in a vote of 311 to 96. Now the senate must approve the bill for Pres. Biden to sign it into law.

Mexican Government gives the University of the Yaqui People for a future with identity, culture and dignity

🇲🇽: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum just gave an Indigenous nation a university. Sheinbaum and Yaqui representatives inaugurated the University of the Yaqui People in Sonora with 356 students accepted. This is part of the reform of constitution article 2 that now recognizes Indigenous autonomy.

A Yaqui engaging in a traditional dance with a replica of a deer with ribbons on the top

This is the Indigenous news you haven't heard about from across Abya Yala (The Americas): 03 Jan 2025 🪶

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Quiché: autoridades indígenas reforzaron la unidad y la esperanza para sus comunidades - Prensa Comunitaria

🇬🇹: The New Year means Mayan officials have new elected leaders! Communities in Quiché, Guatemala, have made New Years the time to celebrate traditions like the Molo’m festivity and to reaffirm their unity by changing their communal leaders, including in Xesic Tercero, Tzabal, and Salquil Grande.

Predicciones para 2025: lo que dicen chamaes peruanos para EEUU y el mundo - Telemundo

🇵🇪: Shamans in Peru reveal prophecies for 2025. Various ‘shamans’ have conducted their annual ocean ceremony to offer prophecies for the new year. Among their prophecies they say nuclear war is possible in 2025 and earthquakes in the US and Mexico. They prayed for peace and us to be with nature.

Petro salió en defensa de Martha Peralta tras las críticas por su ostentoso viaje a Francia: que se vista "como se le dé la gana" - Katherine Lancheros (Infobae)

🇨🇴: Indigenous senator in Colombia criticized for traveling to Paris. Christmas photos posted by Martha Peralta (Wayuu) on social media with her husband leading to criticism for her not wearing Native clothes on the trip. Pres. Gustavo Petro defended her saying she can “dress however she wants to”.

Amazon Indigenous community wins latest stage of court battle - Associated Press Pic of a circular deforested area in the Amazon

🇵🇪: The Indigenous Kichwa in the Peruvian Amazon win their land back. The Puerto Franco Community in San Martín just won a court case proving that the Cordillera Azul national park, which received millions from oil companies, had stolen Kichwa lands in 2001 and that it should now be returned.

Presentan nueva imagen del gobierno de México para 2025: dedican el año a la mujer indígena - Adriana Paredes (El Universal)

🇲🇽: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum declared 2025 as the year of Indigenous women. Sheinbaum made the logo for 2025 to include 4 pre-colonial Indigenous women including Tecuichpo Ixcaxochitzin (Mexica) and Governess Seis-Mono (Mixtec). She also said she’d fight anti-Native racism and classism.

"En la lucha pacífica descubrimos dos аrmas que son resistencia y rebeldía" EZLN 31 aniversario - Radio Pozol

🇲🇽: The Zapatistas celebrate 31 years! The Zapatistas rose up in Chiapas, Mexico, on New Year's Day 1994 against NAFTA and neo-liberalism in the Mayan region of Chiapas. Subcomandante Moisés said in his anniversary speech “we have to build a new life, a new society. We know the system’s evils.”

Brazil's Lula approves 13 Indigenous lands after much delay, promises more to come - Fernanda Wenzel (Mongabay)

🇧🇷: Brazilian President Lula da Sliva finally approves 13 Indigenous territories and says more are to come! His campaign promise to approve 13 territories is finally complete following delays by agribusiness. He's promised even more in his next 2 yrs. Demarcation normally takes 30 yrs to complete

Hopi Tribe set to regain 20,00 acres in deal with state, feds, ending years of dispute - Arlyssa D. Becenti (azcentral)

Landback: The Hopi will regain over 20,000 acres of their land! This victory comes after 3 decades of dispute with the State of Arizona who will now transfer the land in Coconino County to the Hopi as federal trust land. Hopi chairman Timothy L. Nuvangyaoma said: “Everything is in place.”