Fourth World Center

01/20/2025

President Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier, and commuted the rest of his sentence to home. This was one of his last acts in office.

06/14/2024

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/14/colorado-stolen-tribal-land-report

Report published by Native American-led non-profit identifies 10 tribal nations tied to land and how it was taken

10/06/2023

Help some good people do good things. This is my friend and he does this work every single year. These funds will go to food, fuel, and necessary supplies. If you can donate please do so, but please consider sharing the Go Fund Me either way. Thank you so much

Hello there. My name is Creighton. I am Diné (The People) from … Creighton Dailey needs your support for Create Aid Boxes & Stockpile Firewood For Elders

12/21/2022

06/14/2022

https://podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.org/episodes/episode-02/

Our hosts Philip P. Arnold and Sandy Bigtree (Mohawk Nation) speak with Steven T. Newcomb.

02/17/2022

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/mexicos-indigenous-purepecha-knock-statues-spanish-colonial-era-priest-rcna16281?fbclid=IwAR39zGH_WlxrRBfp8vhOazlgG5QefHOqYEnR2iJ3cfoY6gPwSCj7BhCtkoU

The life-size statues depict Spanish priest Fray Antonio de San Miguel ordering one nearly naked Purepecha to cut a stone block while another hauls it on his back.

01/12/2022

📢 REQUEST FOR COMMUNITY SUPPORT 📢

NIMBYs have petitioned the City to close the Native American-inclusive Safe Outdoor Space. The Denver Board of Adjustment is scheduled to vote on the request this Tuesday, January 18th, 2022 at 9am. Tell the Board of Adjustment to vote NO on this bad faith request! Click here to TAKE ACTION NOW: https://bit.ly/SaveNativeSOS

Here's some background:

In August and September 2021, unhoused members of the Denver Indigenous Refugee Camp organized a massive outpouring of grassroots support for this solution in a bid to avoid the city's planned violent displacement of their camp outside of Four Winds American Indian Council. While the Mayor refused to stop the sweep, the city lent its support for the establishment of a Native American-inclusive SOS site at 8th Ave & Elati Street, the region's first and ONLY transitional living space specifically designed to serve unhoused Native people.

In the run-up to the site opening, many neighbors were supportive of the effort, with some sharing baked goods and even offering to volunteer to help with site construction. However, the neighborhood NIMBYs launched an all-out assault, putting up signs with anti-homeless slogans, generating negative news coverage about the site's opening, spreading lies about the land being contaminated, and even heckling and aggressively disrupting a private, traditional ground blessing conducted by one of the leaders of the Denver Indigenous Refugee Camp.

Now, with a bad faith appeal chock full of meritless, unsubstantiated, and flat-out false claims, they're asking the city to close the site and kick all 35 residents back out onto the streets and into the cold with no other options. They clearly don't care if our relatives die from exposure, so long as it's not in their back yard.

We've been here before. When the Federal Government's Indian Relocation program (which was headquartered in Denver) was in full-swing in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, neighborhoods would often use many of these same exact tactics, including organizing neighborhood petitions, to oppose Native families becoming their new neighbors. Now, roughly 60 years later, we have the opportunity to take action to prevent history from repeating itself. Tell the Board of Adjustment to vote NO on Case #111-2021 today!
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Spirit of the Sun
Lakota Way Healing Center
International Indigenous Youth Council - Denver Chapter
Denver Indian Center, Inc.
Denver Indian Family Resource Center
Denver Indian Health and Family Services
Herbal Gardens Wellness, 501c3 Nonprofit Organization
The American Indian Reporter Digital/Internet Radio Show
Servicios de La Raza
Jeff Fard
Denver Homeless Out Loud
Colorado Village Collaborative
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless
Denver Alliance for Street Health Response
Denver Action Network

10/14/2021

https://lastrealindians.com/news/2021/10/14/frontline-indigenous-leaders-occupy-the-bureau-of-indian-affairs-in-dc-for-the-first-time-since-the-1970s

Frontline Indigenous leaders from various fossil fuel fights from across Turtle Island have occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington D.C. for the first time since the 1970’s.

09/27/2021

"When the oil company Enbridge sought to build its Line 3 pipeline through northern Minnesota, it faced opposition from Indigenous-led water protectors. The company moved to coordinate with local police as they cracked down on the resistance."

In the small world of corporate security, officials like Enbridge’s Troy Kirby take counterinsurgency practices from one megacompany to another.

07/30/2021

https://www.democracynow.org/2021/7/2/line_3_resistance_minnesota_water_protectors?fbclid=IwAR1fU6Df2UoC-7Hs_vSKteuO3y43Lh16g5YkNYyR3st7aY4Qqu5fGPl7i1o

Resistance to construction of the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline continues in northern Minnesota, where more than a dozen water protectors this week locked themselves to construction vehicles at two worksites, and to the pipeline itself. Just last month, 179 people were arrested when thousands s...

07/12/2021

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/using-maps-empower-indigenous-communities/

Amid a national conversation about race, colonialism, and justice, Native mappers and runners are reclaiming Indigenous cartography, names, and land

07/05/2021

Sky and Shaheila interviewed at Four Winds by 9news.

The Native American Community is hosting a vigil to pay their respects to the hundreds of unmarked graves recently found in Canada.