Articles tagged: native americans
Indigenous Activists Set Up Protest Camp at South Texas Cemetery to Stop Trump’s Wall
Environmentalists, veterans of the Standing Rock protests and Carrizo/Comecrudo tribal members are vowing to stare down the president's bulldozers.
The 154-year-old Eli Jackson Cemetery sits about a mile from the Rio Grande, south of the Hidalgo County town of San Juan. Encompassing about a quarter-acre, it...Read More
In the Name of Our Ancestors
Against the odds, indigenous activists take on an international coal mining firm.
Against the odds, indigenous activists take on an international coal mining firm near Eagle Pass, saying the state is putting profits before native peoples....Read More
Native Groups Open New Front Against Border Coal Mine
Tribal leaders say binational coal companies are mining on sacred ancestral lands.
Dos Republicas opponents hope bringing attention to the mine's effects on local tribes could open a new front in the fight against the low-grade coal mine....Read More