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Fourth World Center for the Study of Indigenous Law and Politics at University of Colorado at Denver

01/20/2025

President Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier, and commuted the rest of his sentence to home. This was one of his last acts in office.

Create Aid Boxes & Stockpile Firewood For Elders, organized by Creighton Dailey 10/06/2023

Help some good people do good things. This is my friend and he does this work every single year. These funds will go to food, fuel, and necessary supplies. If you can donate please do so, but please consider sharing the Go Fund Me either way. Thank you so much

Create Aid Boxes & Stockpile Firewood For Elders, organized by Creighton Dailey Hello there. My name is Creighton. I am Diné (The People) from … Creighton Dailey needs your support for Create Aid Boxes & Stockpile Firewood For Elders

Photos from Rematriation's post 12/21/2022
01/12/2022

📢 REQUEST FOR COMMUNITY SUPPORT 📢

NIMBYs have petitioned the City to close the Native American-inclusive Safe Outdoor Space. The Denver Board of Adjustment is scheduled to vote on the request this Tuesday, January 18th, 2022 at 9am. Tell the Board of Adjustment to vote NO on this bad faith request! Click here to TAKE ACTION NOW: https://bit.ly/SaveNativeSOS

Here's some background:

In August and September 2021, unhoused members of the Denver Indigenous Refugee Camp organized a massive outpouring of grassroots support for this solution in a bid to avoid the city's planned violent displacement of their camp outside of Four Winds American Indian Council. While the Mayor refused to stop the sweep, the city lent its support for the establishment of a Native American-inclusive SOS site at 8th Ave & Elati Street, the region's first and ONLY transitional living space specifically designed to serve unhoused Native people.

In the run-up to the site opening, many neighbors were supportive of the effort, with some sharing baked goods and even offering to volunteer to help with site construction. However, the neighborhood NIMBYs launched an all-out assault, putting up signs with anti-homeless slogans, generating negative news coverage about the site's opening, spreading lies about the land being contaminated, and even heckling and aggressively disrupting a private, traditional ground blessing conducted by one of the leaders of the Denver Indigenous Refugee Camp.

Now, with a bad faith appeal chock full of meritless, unsubstantiated, and flat-out false claims, they're asking the city to close the site and kick all 35 residents back out onto the streets and into the cold with no other options. They clearly don't care if our relatives die from exposure, so long as it's not in their back yard.

We've been here before. When the Federal Government's Indian Relocation program (which was headquartered in Denver) was in full-swing in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, neighborhoods would often use many of these same exact tactics, including organizing neighborhood petitions, to oppose Native families becoming their new neighbors. Now, roughly 60 years later, we have the opportunity to take action to prevent history from repeating itself. Tell the Board of Adjustment to vote NO on Case #111-2021 today!
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Spirit of the Sun
Lakota Way Healing Center
International Indigenous Youth Council - Denver Chapter
Denver Indian Center, Inc.
Denver Indian Family Resource Center
Denver Indian Health and Family Services
Herbal Gardens Wellness, 501c3 Nonprofit Organization
The American Indian Reporter Digital/Internet Radio Show
Servicios de La Raza
Jeff Fard
Denver Homeless Out Loud
Colorado Village Collaborative
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless
Denver Alliance for Street Health Response
Denver Action Network

Oil Company Official Overseeing Crackdown on Pipeline Resistance Cut Teeth at Amazon and Exxon 09/27/2021

"When the oil company Enbridge sought to build its Line 3 pipeline through northern Minnesota, it faced opposition from Indigenous-led water protectors. The company moved to coordinate with local police as they cracked down on the resistance."

Oil Company Official Overseeing Crackdown on Pipeline Resistance Cut Teeth at Amazon and Exxon In the small world of corporate security, officials like Enbridge’s Troy Kirby take counterinsurgency practices from one megacompany to another.

“Defending the Sacred”: Indigenous Water Protectors Continue Resistance to Line 3 Pipeline in Minnesota 07/30/2021

https://www.democracynow.org/2021/7/2/line_3_resistance_minnesota_water_protectors?fbclid=IwAR1fU6Df2UoC-7Hs_vSKteuO3y43Lh16g5YkNYyR3st7aY4Qqu5fGPl7i1o

“Defending the Sacred”: Indigenous Water Protectors Continue Resistance to Line 3 Pipeline in Minnesota Resistance to construction of the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline continues in northern Minnesota, where more than a dozen water protectors this week locked themselves to construction vehicles at two worksites, and to the pipeline itself. Just last month, 179 people were arrested when thousands s...

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