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Six on Native Americans: Navajo advocate: ‘Extremely difficult to wash hands’ in Navajo Nation due to scarce running water; Cheyenne River Sioux Refuse Governor’s Demand to Remove COVID Checkpoints; The Original Long Islanders Fight to Save Their Land From a Rising Sea; 'The original sin of this country is that we invaders shot and murdered our way across the land killing every Native American that we could'; Land O'Lakes Drops the Iconic Logo of an Indigenous Woman; Sherwin Bitsui, Knives Whistle

Navajo advocate: ‘Extremely difficult to wash hands’ in Navajo Nation due to scarce running water

Bleu Adams, a Navajo business owner and co-founder of the volunteer group "Protect Native Elders” which is distributing relief to native communities, tells Lawrence O'Donnell the "lack of infrastructure regarding access to electricity, water and internet" makes it challenging to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Navajo advocate: ‘Extremely difficult to wash hands’ in Navajo Nation due to scarce running water

Navajo advocate: ‘Extremely difficult to wash hands’ in Navajo Nation du... Bleu Adams, a Navajo business owner and co-founder of the volunteer group "Protect Native Elders” which is distr...

Standoff in South Dakota: Cheyenne River Sioux Refuse Governor’s Demand to Remove COVID Checkpoints Native Americans

"There's a standoff brewing in South Dakota, where two Native American Indian tribes are upholding their sovereignty by defying orders by Governor Kristi Noem to remove COVID-19 checkpoints from their territories. The Cheyenne River Sioux and Oglala Sioux tribes say the checkpoints are the best way to protect against the coronavirus entering their communities, which are not equipped to handle an outbreak. The governor says the checkpoints — which are set up on highways on tribal land — are illegal. We speak with the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe's Chairman Harold Frazier, who says he is defending his people's "right to live." #DemocracyNow

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The Original Long Islanders Fight to Save Their Land From a Rising Sea 

"The project is using wind and water to sculpt the sand into gently rising dunes. It has taken nearly four years to restore a modest 3,250-foot stretch of beach and buffer the burial grounds that lie just beyond.

What the Shinnecock are doing on their land represents what climate adaptation experts call nature-based solutions. Several such efforts are underway elsewhere. New York City’s oyster reefs are being restored to protect Manhattan from storm surges. Marsh grasses have been planted to control erosion in parts of the Florida panhandle. Mangroves have been restored in Vietnam to protect coastal communities from sea level rise and storm surges.

To what extent these natural defenses will succeed in slowing down climate hazards remains uncertain. Ultimately, it depends not on nature, but on how quickly the world as a whole reduces the emission of planet-warming gases and stems the rate of sea level rise.

The global outlook for beaches is bleak. One study, published in Nature Climate Change this week, found that more than half of the world’s sandy beaches could disappear by the end of this century."

Sandy coastlines under threat of erosion Erosion is a major problem facing sandy beaches that will probably worsen with climate change and sea-level rise...

The Original Long Islanders Fight to Save Their Land From a Rising Sea

The Original Long Islanders Fight to Save Their Land From a Rising Sea Shinnecock Indians are using nature-based solutions to calm the waves and restore the beaches that protect their...

...'The original sin of this country is that we invaders shot and murdered our way across the land killing every Native American that we could', The Last Word, 'Dakota' - 2016

Lawrence O'Donnell: 'The original sin of this country is that we invaders shot and murdered our way across the land killing every Native American that we could', The Last Word, 'Dakota' - 2016 — Speakola

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Land O'Lakes Drops the Iconic Logo of an Indigenous Woman From Its Branding

Land O'Lakes Drops the Iconic Logo of an Indigenous Woman From Its Branding

Land O'Lakes Drops the Iconic Logo of an Indigenous Woman From Its Branding Katherine J. Wu The story behind the image, and its removal, led to mixed reactions from the public, including native communities

Knives Whistle

Sherwin Bitsui

Cut from a mail bag without a return address, this land whispers its name from a waterfall’s hairline, pressed flat under bent knee. Lifting your head to look past coming night—                                                                      knives whistle. You scribble an address to a place where weeds door the passage back. Stone in throat, your hand reaches to clutch a leaf, as you turn toward the rising moon—                                                    dove-winged

Copyright © 2020 by Sherwin Bitsui. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on March 17, 2020 by the Academy of American Poets.

“This poem is part of a series of postcard-like pieces. The world in the frame of the poem has transformed. A reconstructed embodiment of a new ‘here’ emerges.” —Sherwin Bitsui

Sherwin Bitsui is the author of Dissolve (Copper Canyon Press, 2018). He is Diné of the Deer Springs Bitterwater People and teaches at Northern Arizona University and the Institute of American Indian Arts. Bitsui lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.