In 1616, a horrific wave of illness throughout the Native people living in what’s now called New England.

Source: https://gizmodo.com/6-mysterious-disease-outbreaks-that-were-never-solved-1846609130

In conjunction with the film’s release, the filmmakers have launched a survey for Native people to report back on what press coverage in their tribal nations and communities looks like and whether there have been efforts to enact free press protections.

Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bad-press-documentary-native-journalists_n_6564bac0e4b0f35896f6d0f9

Its purpose was twofold: to preserve Alaskan landscapes and to allow rural and Native people living subsistence lives on the land to continue to do so.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/opinion/alaska-wilderness-road-jimmy-carter.html

“The anti-Native mascot movement has always been about the betterment of our Native people, not hatred towards others who are football fans,” said Amanda Blackhorse, who is Diné.

Source: https://1350kman.com/2023/02/native-americans-renew-protests-of-kansas-city-chiefs-mascot/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=native-americans-renew-protests-of-kansas-city-chiefs-mascot

The stakes to enforcement are high: The law also recognizes that Alaska Native people are overrepresented as domestic violence victims by 250%.

Source: https://alaskapublic.org/2023/11/13/tribes-state-troopers-increase-access-to-justice-for-alaska-native-survivors-of-domestic-violence/

They report statistics like the 107,000 deaths by drug overdose/poisoning in 2021 or the fact that overdose death rates increased significantly for Black and American Indian/Alaska Native people in the last two years.

Source: https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/05/24/letters-to-the-editor-fighting-russian-propaganda-removing-the-stigma-of-addiction/

They searched the streets and were not afraid to knock on doors in rundown hotels and tenements looking for Native people in need.

Source: https://crosscut.com/equity/2023/06/league-their-own-how-7-women-aided-seattles-native-community

This month I shared everything I learned in a two-part story: explores the rocks’ place in Berkeley’s social history and landscape, and the role — and exclusion — of Native people in that story.

Source: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/12/21/behind-the-story-indian-and-mortar-rocks