Alliance For Beyond Land Acknowledgement
We envision a day when the sovereignty of the Ah-nee-ghee-du-wa-ghee (aka, Cherokee) over their ancestral lands is recognized and their wise stewardship respected.
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History Can’t Be Patriotic if It Requires Silence
From Native News Online by Levi Rickert July 14, 2026 Opinion The first lesson of Indian boarding schools wasn’t reading or writing. It was silence. I was reminded of that during Labor Day weekend 2022 while talking with a tribal leader at a protest against...
A Republic Built on Native Land
Another entry in ICT's "America 250" series offers a historical timeline of the seizure of land by the European colonizers who created the United States of America while systematically ostracizing, excluding, forcibly exiling, and/or annihilating its inhabitants in...