OrendaNehiyawak
@orendacree.bsky.social
🌊🏕️🐻🌍🏹🌄🌅🏞️🚧Networker for clients in need; Cree Kokum, learning re Indigeneity; #MMIW #MMIM love going far into Nature, breathing forest air, remote camping; becoming aware of climate crisis & needed actions; love to travel
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It Produces More Food Than Corn So They Called It a Problem
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December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 THIS IS NOT AND NEVER WILL BE A YT COUNTRY!!! ✊🏽🪶🏹🔥🔥🔥
#TURTLEISLANDHASNOBORDERS #YOUAREONSTOLENLAND #LANDBACK #MEXICANSWERELIVINGONTHISLANDBEFOREWHITEPEOPLESHOWEDUP #NATIVE #NATIVESKY #INDIGENOUS #FIRSTNATIONS #MVSKOKE #MEXICANSANDCENTRALAMERICANSAREOURSPICYCUZZINS 💯💯💯
#TURTLEISLANDHASNOBORDERS #YOUAREONSTOLENLAND #LANDBACK #MEXICANSWERELIVINGONTHISLANDBEFOREWHITEPEOPLESHOWEDUP #NATIVE #NATIVESKY #INDIGENOUS #FIRSTNATIONS #MVSKOKE #MEXICANSANDCENTRALAMERICANSAREOURSPICYCUZZINS 💯💯💯
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 THIS IS NOT AND NEVER WILL BE A YT COUNTRY!!! ✊🏽🪶🏹🔥🔥🔥
#TURTLEISLANDHASNOBORDERS #YOUAREONSTOLENLAND #LANDBACK #MEXICANSWERELIVINGONTHISLANDBEFOREWHITEPEOPLESHOWEDUP #NATIVE #NATIVESKY #INDIGENOUS #FIRSTNATIONS #MVSKOKE #MEXICANSANDCENTRALAMERICANSAREOURSPICYCUZZINS 💯💯💯
#TURTLEISLANDHASNOBORDERS #YOUAREONSTOLENLAND #LANDBACK #MEXICANSWERELIVINGONTHISLANDBEFOREWHITEPEOPLESHOWEDUP #NATIVE #NATIVESKY #INDIGENOUS #FIRSTNATIONS #MVSKOKE #MEXICANSANDCENTRALAMERICANSAREOURSPICYCUZZINS 💯💯💯
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Plant Once, Harvest Forever: Why Don't You Know About It?
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December 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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The first in a series of new "explain homes" — modular and culture-led houses built by Aboriginal-led organisation Wilya Janta — has been trucked into Tennant Creek.
#Indigenous
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#Indigenous
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First community-designed, culture-first home arrives in Tennant Creek
A one-of-a-kind home, designed with the input of Tennant Creek families, has rolled up the Stuart Highway from Adelaide on a convoy of trucks. It is part of a new initiative aiming to transform housin...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The first in a series of new "explain homes" — modular and culture-led houses built by Aboriginal-led organisation Wilya Janta — has been trucked into Tennant Creek.
#Indigenous
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#Indigenous
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#Carney #UCP For First Nations whose Lands & Waters are directly in the path of such developments, there is serious risk of rolling back hard-won rights & opening lands and waters to decisions taken without Indigenous FPIC.
Opinion: A pipeline is just the beginning: More threats coming for Indigenous rights
Ottawa’s approach to major infrastructure projects puts Indigenous rights at risk
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December 3, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Changes are being made with “no consultation whatsoever” & that Bill 7, the Water Amendment Act, will give the provincial government more control over water that “sustains Treaty 8 territory.” Also new legislation would threaten ecosystems & water that support fishing, hunting, gathering & trapping
Treaty 8 First Nations call for suspension of Water Amendment Act
Chiefs in the Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta say they have "urgent and serious concerns" about the province...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Changes are being made with “no consultation whatsoever” & that Bill 7, the Water Amendment Act, will give the provincial government more control over water that “sustains Treaty 8 territory.” Also new legislation would threaten ecosystems & water that support fishing, hunting, gathering & trapping
#Carney #UCP "Proposed carbon capture and storage project involves a 400-kilometre-long CO2 pipeline transporting captured emissions from more than 20 oilsands facilities in northern Alberta to a storage hub near Cold Lake, on lands claimed by Cold Lake and other local First Nations."
Carney-Smith deal will bring carbon capture to Cold Lake. They don't want it - MBC Radio
Photo: Aerial view of Cold Lake, a large, deep lake on the Alberta–Saskatchewan border within Cold Lake First Nations territory / Photo submitted by Cold Lake First Nations. By Sonal Gupta Local Journ...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:19 AM
shorturl.at/yYMb4 'This is a crisis that demands co-ordinated, urgent action'! The final report on the Red Dress Alert emphasizes the importance of Indigenous control as well Indigenous cultural and spiritual practices guiding the organization in order to ensure trust from those it will serve.
Indigenous-led Red Dress Alert program must be implemented in Manitoba 'without delay': report | CBC News
A Manitoba Red Dress Alert program must launch no later than June 2026 and be implemented through an Indigenous-led independent organization, says a report released Tuesday.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:17 AM
shorturl.at/yYMb4 'This is a crisis that demands co-ordinated, urgent action'! The final report on the Red Dress Alert emphasizes the importance of Indigenous control as well Indigenous cultural and spiritual practices guiding the organization in order to ensure trust from those it will serve.
shorturl.at/p5QDx Tens of thousands of other Native women who endured forced and coerced sterilization, could be getting justice thanks to a resolution out of the New Mexico state legislature for a truth and reconciliation commission to investigate the abuse.
New Mexico Could Be First State to Address Forced Sterilization of Native American Women
Jean Whitehorse's Native name means "Many Children," but she only has one child. This spring, she spoke at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York to explain why...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:16 AM
shorturl.at/p5QDx Tens of thousands of other Native women who endured forced and coerced sterilization, could be getting justice thanks to a resolution out of the New Mexico state legislature for a truth and reconciliation commission to investigate the abuse.
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Kids removed from #Indigenous families in Greenland
#colonialism #racism #justice
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#colonialism #racism #justice
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Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Kids removed from #Indigenous families in Greenland
#colonialism #racism #justice
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#colonialism #racism #justice
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YES!
We're thrilled to congratulate @mariaparazorose.bsky.social on the launch of an innovative new reporting project with support from @rwjf.org. Maria's work will explore #Indigenous land return models around the world 🌏
Read more: novainstituteforhealth.org/nova-media-f...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
YES!
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A year ago, this amazing Maori woman spurred righteous #resistance with the #haka heard around the world
Great respect to #indigenous people of the world, speaking truth to power, caring for their communities, persevering, reminding us all of the power of the people and the Earth
Great respect to #indigenous people of the world, speaking truth to power, caring for their communities, persevering, reminding us all of the power of the people and the Earth
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A year ago, this amazing Maori woman spurred righteous #resistance with the #haka heard around the world
Great respect to #indigenous people of the world, speaking truth to power, caring for their communities, persevering, reminding us all of the power of the people and the Earth
Great respect to #indigenous people of the world, speaking truth to power, caring for their communities, persevering, reminding us all of the power of the people and the Earth
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@alinahdee.bsky.social in a pair of Oskē Yvlahv Omē (Orange Rainfall) Beaded Dangle Earrings 🧡🤍🖤
"I refuse to accept that I am weak"
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#Beadwork #Jewelry #Indigenous
"I refuse to accept that I am weak"
→ cvkvlv.com
#Beadwork #Jewelry #Indigenous
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
@alinahdee.bsky.social in a pair of Oskē Yvlahv Omē (Orange Rainfall) Beaded Dangle Earrings 🧡🤍🖤
"I refuse to accept that I am weak"
→ cvkvlv.com
#Beadwork #Jewelry #Indigenous
"I refuse to accept that I am weak"
→ cvkvlv.com
#Beadwork #Jewelry #Indigenous
shorturl.at/DMEBJ Great news! Now how long till it's passed by Parliament & implemented?
‘We cannot govern who First Nations fall in love with’ says Senator
A Senate committee voted ten to one to amend to the government’s Bill S-2, and implement a one-parent rule for 'status Indians'
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November 26, 2025 at 3:16 AM
shorturl.at/DMEBJ Great news! Now how long till it's passed by Parliament & implemented?
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen... The crux is Canada’s “interim funding model” begun as temp 2019- 2020 measure, which the First Nation says doesn’t provide funding comparable to the provincial system & doesn’t account for First Nations kids’ greater needs, nor higher cost of reserve operating schools.
First Nation and Canada begin legal battle over ‘grossly underfunded’ on-reserve schools | CBC News
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has begun hearing a potentially precedent-setting legal battle between Canada and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation about the alleged systemic underfunding...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen... The crux is Canada’s “interim funding model” begun as temp 2019- 2020 measure, which the First Nation says doesn’t provide funding comparable to the provincial system & doesn’t account for First Nations kids’ greater needs, nor higher cost of reserve operating schools.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 2 Dakota First Nations in southern Manitoba suing Manitoba Hydro, province & federal govt, alleging the 3 have reaped $Billions in profit thru hydro operations & other economic activities on parts of First Nations' ancestral land that was never surrendered to the Crown.
Manitoba Hydro, governments have made billions through activity on ancestral Dakota lands: lawsuit | CBC News
Two Dakota First Nations are suing Manitoba Hydro, the province and the federal government, alleging the three unjustly enriched themselves through hydro operations on parts of the First Nation's ance...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 2 Dakota First Nations in southern Manitoba suing Manitoba Hydro, province & federal govt, alleging the 3 have reaped $Billions in profit thru hydro operations & other economic activities on parts of First Nations' ancestral land that was never surrendered to the Crown.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... “Opening up whole coastal plain for O&G devt threatens Gwich'in people & our way of life,” Moreland said. “We know there’s consequences with oil devt: pollution, habitat destruction, greater human traffic, rise of violence, drugs, missing & murdered Indigenous peoples.”
Outcry from Gwich'in leaders over potential oil and gas drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge | CBC News
Environmentalists and Indigenous leaders raise concerns after Trump administration opens up Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... “Opening up whole coastal plain for O&G devt threatens Gwich'in people & our way of life,” Moreland said. “We know there’s consequences with oil devt: pollution, habitat destruction, greater human traffic, rise of violence, drugs, missing & murdered Indigenous peoples.”
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Auditor general Hogan found dept has fallen far behind in implementing numerous recommendations of past department audits, despite a near-doubling in spending since 2019.
First Nations left to face blocks accessing health care, safe drinking water & emergency mgmt services
First Nations left to face blocks accessing health care, safe drinking water & emergency mgmt services
Auditor general's findings no surprise to London-area Indigenous leaders | CBC News
Auditor General Karen Hogan found Indigenous Services Canada has fallen far behind in implementing numerous recommendations from past department audits, despite a near-doubling in department spending ...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Auditor general Hogan found dept has fallen far behind in implementing numerous recommendations of past department audits, despite a near-doubling in spending since 2019.
First Nations left to face blocks accessing health care, safe drinking water & emergency mgmt services
First Nations left to face blocks accessing health care, safe drinking water & emergency mgmt services
www.aptnnews.ca/national-new... Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, national chief of the AFN, said the freeze will have major impacts on communities w hi birth rates & has no plan to address education gap.
“The budget didn't include generational investments to close the First Nations existing education gaps”
“The budget didn't include generational investments to close the First Nations existing education gaps”
Indigenous leaders say budget a missed opportunity
Indigenous leaders had mixed reviews of Mark Carney's first budget as prime minister saying major issues were ignored.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
www.aptnnews.ca/national-new... Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, national chief of the AFN, said the freeze will have major impacts on communities w hi birth rates & has no plan to address education gap.
“The budget didn't include generational investments to close the First Nations existing education gaps”
“The budget didn't include generational investments to close the First Nations existing education gaps”
#Carney actionnetwork.org/letters/reje...
PLEASE sign to let this smooth version of Polievre know we do NOT want his support for Rich White Men over our country's needs!
PLEASE sign to let this smooth version of Polievre know we do NOT want his support for Rich White Men over our country's needs!
Reject Carney’s Billionaire Budget
Carney’s first budget is a gift to billionaires – and an attack on workers, communities, and the planet. This budget would gut our public services, attack migrant and refugee protections, fuel climate...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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PLEASE sign to let this smooth version of Polievre know we do NOT want his support for Rich White Men over our country's needs!
PLEASE sign to let this smooth version of Polievre know we do NOT want his support for Rich White Men over our country's needs!
Join me in asking the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to protect our pensions and the climate and stop investing in oil, gas, coal and pipelines. A legal case is already underway. It’s time to stop investing in fossil fuels and recommit to net-zero. win.newmode.net/shiftaction/...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Join me in asking the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to protect our pensions and the climate and stop investing in oil, gas, coal and pipelines. A legal case is already underway. It’s time to stop investing in fossil fuels and recommit to net-zero. win.newmode.net/shiftaction/...
#UCP Dani Smith hands out Mega Bucks to her funders, the Fossil Fuel industry, chops us!
"Alberta Native News reached out to the Ministry of Children and Family Services to ask why the government decided to discontinue funding for the Circle of Safety. The ministry didn’t acknowledge the inquiry."
"Alberta Native News reached out to the Ministry of Children and Family Services to ask why the government decided to discontinue funding for the Circle of Safety. The ministry didn’t acknowledge the inquiry."
www.albertanativenews.com/alberta-cuts...
Alberta cuts funding mid-year to program for Indigenous mothers who have faced domestic violence
#abpoli #ableg #Alberta #Indigenous #mothers #domestic
#violence #UCP #Heartless #FireTheUCP #FireSmith #Canada
#provincial #government
Alberta cuts funding mid-year to program for Indigenous mothers who have faced domestic violence
#abpoli #ableg #Alberta #Indigenous #mothers #domestic
#violence #UCP #Heartless #FireTheUCP #FireSmith #Canada
#provincial #government
Alberta cuts funding mid-year to program for Indigenous mothers who have faced domestic violence - Alberta Native News
By Jeremy Appel (ANNews) – The provincial government has cut funding for an Aboriginal Counseling Services of Alberta (ACSA) program that provides support for Indigenous...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
#UCP Dani Smith hands out Mega Bucks to her funders, the Fossil Fuel industry, chops us!
"Alberta Native News reached out to the Ministry of Children and Family Services to ask why the government decided to discontinue funding for the Circle of Safety. The ministry didn’t acknowledge the inquiry."
"Alberta Native News reached out to the Ministry of Children and Family Services to ask why the government decided to discontinue funding for the Circle of Safety. The ministry didn’t acknowledge the inquiry."
Magnificent! The many stories by Ancestors!
Oh, the stories on Newspaper Rock. Located on the way to the Needles District, Canyonlands National Park, Utah.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock #rockart #petroglyphs #indigenous #symbols
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock #rockart #petroglyphs #indigenous #symbols
November 3, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Magnificent! The many stories by Ancestors!
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White settlers continue to attack us!
White settlers continue to attack us!
This child's mother is not an immigrant, she is an Indigenous woman, he is an Indigenous child.
They deserve to be together on this land their ancestors walked before any real immigration came to terrorize them.
Humanizing our stories & spreading the truth is a form of protest.
#Indigenous
They deserve to be together on this land their ancestors walked before any real immigration came to terrorize them.
Humanizing our stories & spreading the truth is a form of protest.
#Indigenous
November 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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White settlers continue to attack us!
White settlers continue to attack us!
#Indigenous Pres Chartrandsummary
+Property in Winnipeg & Ottawa; $ invested in uni & college education of 1,000s of Métis Youth
?Getting the MMF self-government agreement passed through Parliament; refurbishment of the Port at Churchill
-Métis still treated as criminals fishing; unemployment
+Property in Winnipeg & Ottawa; $ invested in uni & college education of 1,000s of Métis Youth
?Getting the MMF self-government agreement passed through Parliament; refurbishment of the Port at Churchill
-Métis still treated as criminals fishing; unemployment
State of the Nation address a mix of Métis pride and worry about battles on the horizon
President David Chartrand of the Manitoba Métis Federation gave the State of the Nation address Oct. 18 at the Red River Métis government’s 2025 Annual General Assembly held over the weekend. It was f...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:12 AM
#Indigenous Pres Chartrandsummary
+Property in Winnipeg & Ottawa; $ invested in uni & college education of 1,000s of Métis Youth
?Getting the MMF self-government agreement passed through Parliament; refurbishment of the Port at Churchill
-Métis still treated as criminals fishing; unemployment
+Property in Winnipeg & Ottawa; $ invested in uni & college education of 1,000s of Métis Youth
?Getting the MMF self-government agreement passed through Parliament; refurbishment of the Port at Churchill
-Métis still treated as criminals fishing; unemployment