NDN Collective Stories

A list curated by Afro-Indigenous Staff at NDN Collective in honor of Black History Month.

NDN Collective Director of Tactical Media, Lorenzo Serna, provides live-stream coverage of a rally in Minnesota in honor of Joye Braun where local organizers handed off letters to the Department of Natural Resources and demanded President Biden declare a climate emergency.

In this Q & A interview, Nick shares some of his reflections and big picture takeaways from the past two and a half years. Nick faced up to 17 years behind bars after a #LANDBACK protest in the Black Hills on July 3, 2020.

“While this financial commitment is unprecedented and significant, funding alone won’t solve the racial equity gap. Movement building must continue. Policy and advocacy work must continue to disrupt, dismantle, and shift the economic systems that don’t work for us. We can all play a part in that.”

"Esta generación de socios beneficiarios representa algunos de los trabajos más impactantes que ocurren en la Isla de la Tortuga: defender el aire, la tierra y el agua; desarrollar economías indígenas basadas en principios regenerativos; y revitalizar nuestros idiomas, culturas y ceremonias de manera que iluminen el camino para las próximas generaciones"

“This cohort of grantee partners represents some of the most impactful work happening across Turtle Island—defending the air, land and water; developing Indigenous economies based on regenerative principles; and revitalizing our languages, cultures and ceremonies in ways that illuminate the path for the next generations.”

"Our delegation has been participating in the Indigenous Peoples Caucus and the Local Communities Indigenous Peoples Platform, as well as tracking negotiations, meeting with government officials, and more."

The outcry of support for ICWA, Tribal sovereignty, and the intervening Tribes involved in this case brought relatives together from across Turtle Island. Hundreds  gathered together in prayer, song, and medicine for the conversation about to take place inside the doors of the Supreme Court on Wednesday, November 9.

Brackeen v. Haaland (2021) is a case whose ruling could shake the entire foundation of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), impacting Native American children, families, land and Tribal sovereignty as we know it.

"Las aspiraciones de nuestra gente y nuestro movimiento son amplificadas y visibilizadas por artistas y creativos, tenemos mucho que decir y ellos hablan a través de sus expresiones, que puede venir en forma de una pintura, una canción, un poema o una actuación."