Tiokasin Ghosthorse at Communion with the Wild

Tiokasin Ghosthorse on Indigenous Language, Disconnection, and Returning...

THINK: Don't Believe - John Trudell 

The positive principles at the roots of our resistance by Paul Cudenec

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WE ARE WARRIORS | F*ck Your Fascism by Sean Sherman

WE ARE WARRIORS

 

F*ck Your Fascism by Sean Sherman

Life After Good Was Murdered in Minnesota

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The Trump administration understands escalation and thrives on it. It’s part of the plan.

• Send more agents

• Provoke confrontation

• Allow violence

• Justify more control

Violence creates urgency. Urgency creates permission. Permission creates normalization.  

And here is the part people need to hear clearly.

We are now hearing reports from hotel workers that ICE has blocked rooms across Minneapolis–Saint Paul through May.

Let that sink in.

 

What a King Would Say

I have written poetry about the FLAG PEOPLE, who plant their flag in your territory and on your land and declare they OWN it.  NO KINGS, right? Trace

 

Trump says anything less than US control of Greenland is unacceptable, hours before Vance hosts Danish and Greenlandic officials for talks

January 14, 2026

Denmark and Greenland oppose U.S. control, emphasizing their sovereignty and ties to NATO and the EU. READ:  https://apnews.com/article/greenland-united-states-denmark-trump-vance-rubio-meeting-cc278af4f3daf725029101966ba03568?user_email=9f3a4724473a3b89b16b75494b6120eb1bcf8be7bc063fd27d7700ea468f191a

https://apnews.com/article/greenland-united-states-denmark-trump-vance-rubio-meeting-cc278af4f3daf725029101966ba03568?user_email=9f3a4724473a3b89b16b75494b6120eb1bcf8be7bc063fd27d7700ea468f191a

https://apnews.com/video/nuuk-residents-rebuff-trumps-claims-of-chinese-and-russian-forces-lurking-off-greenlands-coast-e521e417e4944132b9cc159d328fb42c

 

Centuries of American Overtures

The United States' interest in Greenland is not a recent phenomenon, but rather a recurring theme in its foreign policy, stretching back over 150 years. The idea of acquiring Greenland first surfaced in the 1860s under President Andrew Johnson's administration, following the U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia. Secretary of State William Seward, a key figure in the Alaska acquisition, also eyed Greenland, recognizing its potential natural resources such as coal. While no formal offer was made at that time, a land swap involving Greenland was proposed under President William Howard Taft in 1910, which Denmark rejected.

The most significant historical attempt came in 1946, in the wake of World War II and the nascent Cold War, when President Harry S. Truman formally offered Denmark $100 million in gold for the island. Denmark, though recovering from wartime occupation, firmly rejected the offer, opting instead to expand U.S. military access to the island. This led to the establishment of key military installations like Pituffik Space Base (formerly Thule Air Base), which integrated Greenland into the U.S. early-warning radar and missile defense network, a presence that continues today under bilateral agreements. These historical precedents underscore a consistent American perception of Greenland as a strategic asset, even as Denmark and Greenland have consistently rebuffed outright acquisition.

MORE: https://chronicleai.org/article/greenland-rejects-renewed-u-s-overtures-firmly-declaring-not-for-sale 

December 2025 Native News Roundup by Rebecca Nagle

December 2025 Native News Roundup by Rebecca Nagle

Happy New Year (belatedly)! I’m starting January off with a (also belated) recap of Native News from December.

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ICE + Native America

Last Wednesday an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a Minneapolis resident and mother of three. While Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claims the shooting was in self defense, video of the incident shows Good attempting to drive away from the scene.

Since the Trump administration sent 2,000 ICE agents to Minneapolis, at least five Native American community members have been detained. The area where Good was killed is near a historic urban Native community and the Little Earth housing project. Near Little Earth, ICE agents detained four men who are Oglala Lakota. One man was released after a 12 hour hold, but the whereabouts of the other men are unknown. In a separate incident, Jose Roberto “Beto” Ramirez was driving to his aunt’s house North of Minneapolis when he noticed he was being followed by people in an unmarked car. Ramirez is a descendant of Red Lake Nation. ICE agents pulled Ramirez out of his car. “I felt like I was kidnapped,” he told ICT news. After detaining him for 6 hours, ICE eventually released Ramirez.

I want to hear from you!

I’m just starting this newsletter and I would love your feedback! As a freelance writer, I was frustrated with my writing living in multiple places and wanted a space to connect with my readers directly. I’d love to hear your thoughts! What topics are you curious about? Where would you like to see this newsletter go? - Rebecca Nagle

Our Commmunity and Awareness

 WE ARE FIRST NATIONS! Please be aware: watch this video:

I’ll cut to the chase, as they say. I’m now on the ground in Minneapolis, representing our team on the frontlines and doing what I can to help build a defense amid the ongoing occupation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.). I can gratefully report that the section of the city where many Native people live is no longer experiencing quite the same level of infiltration by I.C.E. personnel as it had been over the past days. That said, we remain on high alert. The federal government recently sent more officers here, and its attacks on this brave community are clearly far from over.

As part of my activities on the ground, I’m networking with local Native leaders and press outlets. Today, I sat down for an interview with host Robert Pilot on Native Roots Radio to discuss the situation. I encourage you to take a few minutes and watch our highlights video of the conversation right here. And, if you have the time, you can watch the entire, nearly one-hour broadcast on the Native Roots Radio Facebook page.

Watch: I discussed the ongoing I.C.E. attack on Minneapolis on Native Roots Radio.

It should go without saying that we’re now at a critical moment for the survival of our democracy as we know it. The echoes of historic fascism — from the brazen attacks by militarized I.C.E. agents on people it considers undesirable to Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem’s new podium slogan (”One of ours, all of yours”) echoing the Nazi fervor for mass retaliation — are striking and deeply disturbing.

You may recall that we’ve been sounding the alarm about all of this for quite some time. The Project 2025 agenda clearly laid out the administration’s aims, and its subsequent attacks on birthright citizenship were another giant red flag, ultimately giving rise to our Original Homegrowns series of videos laying out the danger to Native — and all — people of this land.

Now, we’re here. But we, as Natives, know that even this can be overcome — if we stand together. As things progress, it will remain extra important to continue speaking truth to power, building alliances and a united front, and taking action where and when appropriate to protect one another, halt the tide of fascism, and restore sanity. Please stay locked in with us. Watch and share our video. We’ll have much more to say, and we plan to provide opportunities for you to make a difference going forward. Are you ready?

Wopila tanka — thank you, always, for supporting our ability to assist.
Chase Iron Eyes
Executive Director
Lakota People’s Law Project
Sacred Defense Fund

 

 

January 9, 2026 | ICT NEWSCAST

Three Foster Kids, Three Precious Miracles: How An Indigenous Mom’s Adoption Journey Inspired Her Nonprofit

By Nancy Marie Spears

Elisia and Tecumseh Manuel and their three children — Tecumseh, Precious and Micah — adopted from Arizona’s foster care system. Provided photo.

 

..."These experiences prompted an internal question on behalf of families like hers fostering Native youth: “Where are the resources?” Manuel recalled asking herself. 

"That wondering led to the creation of her nonprofit in 2014, Three Precious Miracles. The group’s initials correspond to those of the three Indigenous children the couple adopted from Arizona’s foster care system: Tecumseh — named after Manuel’s spouse of 28 years — Precious and Micah. The kids were placed with the Manuels as infants, and all are now pre-teens."

WONDERFUL READ:  https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/three-precious-miracles-arizona-nonprofit/269711 

Trump’s Desire to Shoot Protesters Is Our New Reality

I was born in Minnesota and lived in the Cities in the 1980s.... What is happening now, we must be very careful not to fall into the trap they are setting... BE CAREFUL if you do protest... Trace

The woman shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday was Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had recently moved to Minnesota.

Renee Good was MURDERED Yesterday by Sean Sherman

Trump’s Desire to Shoot Protesters Is Our New Reality

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VIDEO:  https://www.firstalert4.com/2026/01/08/woman-killed-by-ice-agent-minneapolis-was-mother-3-poet-new-city/ 

Victims of Adoption and Lies (in six parts)

By Trace L. Hentz (formerly DeMeyer) 

This post is a reblog from 2023/2012

I woke up with two thoughts: there are two victims of adoption who need help and not necessarily from each other: the adoptee and the first mother. Each has its own burden and neither can heal the other.

Part 1: (living with lies)

Part 2:  (lost time)

 Part 3:  (control the message)  

Part 4 (ceremony)

 
Part 5 (forgiveness)

Part 6 (identification)

 

This series ran in 2012 on American Indian Adoptees. It was my most popular series on the topic of adoption…

 

By Trace Hentz

part 4:

I woke up with two thoughts: there are two victims of adoption who need help and not necessarily from each other: the adoptee and the first mother. Each has its own burden and neither can heal the other.

“I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile I keep dancing.” That is a line in the book “Bird by Bird” by Ann Lamott.  Her comical book offers instructions on writing and life and so far -- I’ve had good belly laughs. Yep, Ann made a funny book!

In part two of her book, Ann was fighting herself over jealousy of another writer friend. She wrote, “Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic - jealousy especially so - but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime poisoned by it."

Poison is nothing to mess with.  I spoke with an adoptee friend last night and Levi is sure we adoptees need to create new ceremonies, even some just for us adoptees. I was nodding at every word Levi said.  A lifetime of isolation from what we know to be ours, our blood rights as Indigenous People, our language and culture and the healing offered by participating in ceremony, it was not ours growing up white and adopted and assimilated.

But we adoptees are not victims, Levi said. No, we are changed by adoption but not its victims.

I thought about ceremony, what ceremony I missed growing up, and what other Indian people probably took for granted growing up. That does make me jealous. I didn’t get to meet my grandmothers in flesh, only in dreams.

I am sad I do not how to make my own regalia. I see others dance at powwow and wish someone had time to teach me what I need to know.

I can think of a million things I’d like to know. When I met relatives in Illinois last year, I was over the moon happy.  My Harlow cousins filled many holes in my heart.

I am in reunion. Jealousy is not my poison.

For those not in reunion, their hearts ache.  We need to find a way to heal them.

Levi Eagle Feather has contributed to this blog.

 

CLICK: AMERICAN INDIAN ADOPTEES: GUEST POST: Reactive Attachment Disorder by Levi E...: Levi EagleFeather (Lakota)

Denmark Demands Respect Amid Ongoing U.S. Threats (updated)

‘Canada is next’: Inuk lawyer says Greenland’s sovereignty must be upheld VIDEO

UPDATE: Disrespectful and Offensive:  https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/disrespectful-and-offensive-inuit-canadian-politicians-react-to-u-s-greenland-threats/

The Cold War Over Greenland and the Inuit People at a Crossroads

The Inuit People

However, Greenland’s fate is deeply intertwined with that of its indigenous people. The Inuit constitute between 89% and 90% of Greenland’s population, maintaining their ancient heritage.

Despite facing contemporary challenges and Danish influence, the Inuit possess ancestral knowledge of the Arctic environment and are fighting to preserve their cultural identity.

Their self-determined future, from remote settlements to the capital Nuuk, is central to their opposition to any annexation. As stated jointly by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenlandic Premier Jens-Frederik Nielsen on December 22, 2025, as cited by DW: "The island belongs to its inhabitants."

 

READ THIS:

https://www.wionews.com/photos/-world-s-largest-island-56-000-tesidents-and-more-top-8-facts-about-greenland-you-didn-t-know-1767877026472 

MINING GEM?

https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/greenland-is-not-the-mining-gem-some-think-it-is 

North Carolina: OBC ACCESS

Johnston County Adoptees To Access Birth Records Locally In 2026

• January 1, 2026

SMITHFIELD, NC – Beginning January 1, 2026, individuals who were adopted and born in Johnston County will be able to obtain certified copies of their adoptive birth certificates directly from the Johnston County Register of Deeds Office, marking a significant change in access to vital records.

The change comes as a result of Senate Bill 248, Birth Certificates for Persons Adopted, recently enacted by the North Carolina General Assembly. The legislation authorizes Registers of Deeds offices across the state to issue certified copies of adoptive birth certificates, a service previously available only through the North Carolina Office of Vital Records.

Johnston County Register of Deeds Craig Olive (photo) said the new law gives adoptees the same level of access to their records as other county residents.

“This new law is a big win for adoptees and provides equal access to their vital records,” Olive said. “It will be a much easier, faster and less expensive process for those who have been adopted to retrieve certified copies of their birth certificates from our office rather than going through the state.”

Prior to the law’s passage, adoptees were required to request their birth certificates from the state office, often resulting in longer wait times and additional costs. Olive credited advocates and lawmakers who worked to make the change possible.

“We appreciate everyone who lobbied for this change and look forward to offering this service locally in our office,” he said.

Officials emphasized that the law does not alter privacy protections surrounding adoption records. Original birth certificates issued prior to adoption, as well as all related adoption records, will remain sealed and unavailable for public inspection.

Access to adoptive birth certificates will be limited to the adoptee and certain family members, including adopted parents, adopted siblings, spouses, children and grandchildren. Proof of relationship will be required at the time of request.

The Johnston County Register of Deeds Office is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Olive encouraged eligible residents to visit the office once the law takes effect.

“As always, my doors are open, and I look forward to serving all citizens of our great county,” he said.

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