'He doesn’t deserve this,’ activist says after learning Leonard Peltier has COVID-19

It’s a crime that he’s even in federal prison, but after begging to be released due to dangerous conditions related to COVID-19, now Native American rights activist Leonard Peltier has been diagnosed …

Sitting Bull’s great-grandson identified, now he wants to bury him where ‘he will be respected’

Science has confirmed what many in the Indigenous community already knew: Ernie LaPointe, a writer and Vietnam veteran, is the great-grandson—and closest living descendant—of legendary Lakota Sioux …

There’s no equity in education without truth-telling, ethnic studies, and anti-racist curriculum

This story was originally published at Prism. 

By Jessica Helen Lopez

After 140 years, nine young Lakota relatives who lost their lives at a Carlisle, Pennsylvania, boarding school were recently …