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Indigenous Tribe Fights Back Against Trump's 'Lake America' Renaming: 'He Cannot Erase Our Culture'

The Seneca Nation urges President Trump to reverse his decision to rename Lake Ontario, citing cultural erasure and treaty violations, amid rising US-Canada tensions.

International Business Times UK · Aug 29

Seneca Nation calls for reversal of Trump's ‘Lake America’ executive order

The leader of the Seneca Nation in upstate New York is criticizing President Donald Trump’s decision to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” saying it violates a more than 225-year-old treaty and shows a “blatant disrespect” for the Indigenous people who gave it its name in the first place

The Independent UK · Aug 28

Reports split over whether forced contraception of Greenlandic women and girls constituted genocide

Two reports investigating the forcible contraception of thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland by Danish health authorities for decades were split over whether the practice constituted genocide

The Independent UK · Aug 28

In 1917, the Crane family bought the first piece of Choate Island; decades later, the island entered the Crane Wildlife Refuge under the Trustees in 1974

Choate Island, formerly Hog Island, transitioned from Indigenous settlements to farms. European settlers and the Choate family shaped its agricultural landscape for centuries. Richard T. Crane Jr. began acquiring land in the early twentieth century. His wife, Miné Crane, later gifted the island to The Trustees of Reservations. This gift…

The Times of India · Aug 26

In 1906, Quaker industrialist William Bancroft began buying land outside Wilmington to keep it open for the public; more than a century later, 1,359 acres became the largest unit of First State National Historical Park

In 1906, William Poole Bancroft began buying land in Delaware’s Brandywine Valley to hold it in reserve for the public’s health and well-being. He eventually acquired more than 1,300 acres. Parts of the land were later donated to the National Park Service, with 1,359 acres now forming the largest unit…

The Times of India · Aug 26

A rare win in Indian country: how tribes drove out a mining company in one week

At the sacred prairie of Pe’ Sla in South Dakota, Indigenous and environmental groups banded together to halt drilling

The Guardian - US · Aug 25

‘Someone knows something’ FBI raises rewards in dozens of haunting Native American cases

The FBI has established a minimum reward of $25,000 for help in solving some cold cases where people went missing or were killed in Indian Country

The Independent UK · Aug 25

Peru court hands lengthy prison terms in killing of Indigenous Amazon defender

A Peruvian court has convicted four men of murder-for-hire and sentenced them to between 15 and 35 years in prison for the 2023 killing of an Indigenous Kichwa leader and rainforest defender

The Independent UK · Aug 25

In 1862, heirs sold Colorado’s Baca land for 30 cents an acre; 140 years later its 97,000-acre ranch sold for $31.28 million and helped create a national park nearly four times the monument’s original size

A piece of land can begin as a forgotten investment and end as part of a national treasure. That is the remarkable story of Colorado’s Baca Ranch, a vast property at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. In 1862, heirs of Luis María Cabeza de Baca sold the…

The Times of India · Aug 24

‘I can’t die like this’: New York mom stops Arizona man to ask for directions. Then he allegedly responds with his fists and a knife

“It's a nightmare I haven't even woken up from.”

We Got This Covered · Aug 23