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On Aug. 10, an Israeli aerial bomb crashed down on an Al Jazeera media tent, killing Al-Sharif, his cousin, and journalists Muhammed Qraiqea, Ibrahim Daher, Momen Aliwa, Mohammed Nofal, and Muhammad Al-Khalidi. As part of its genocidal siege, starvation, and scorched earth strategy against all Palestinian civilians, Israel has established a systematic targeting of journalists for assassination in the field and at home.

While addressing Congress, the longtime Indian killer and first territorial governor of the Oregon Territory, Joseph Lane, proclaimed that “the Injuns should be skulped [sic].” Very few people in the mid-1800s, Carpenter found, took issue with annihilating Natives from the face of the earth. Many saw it as their destiny to “disappear.” No Frontiers is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

While addressing Congress, the longtime Indian killer and first territorial governor of the Oregon Territory, Joseph Lane, proclaimed that “the Injuns should be skulped [sic].” Very few people in the mid-1800s, Carpenter found, took issue with annihilating Natives from the face of the earth. Many saw it as their destiny to “disappear.” No Frontiers is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

[Warning: This article contains numerous references to racist slurs against Indigenous peoples] On Sunday, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, demanding that the Washington Commanders and the Cleveland Guardians change their names back to their racist brand names, while claiming that Indians want this change, too. Tribal nations, tribal advocacy organizations, Native politicians and activists have long battled to remove Indigenous racial slurs and caricatures from public life.

This parade is so Nazi-coded A lot has happened in the last two days: Israel “preemptively” striking Iran to drag the US into war and, today, the assassination of Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, as well as the shooting of a second MN state rep. and his wife. In an hour or so, President Donald Trump will enjoy a costly government-funded Nazi homage for a birthday celebration.

In mid-March, hundreds of tribal leaders and Indigenous school principals, teachers, and parents across Turtle Island voiced their objection to President Donald Trump’s ill-defined “school choice” executive order (EO) for Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) schools during a nationwide tribal consultation.

Drawing on economic lessons from the Covid pandemic emergency, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation just east of Oklahoma City has frozen tribal spending and hiring until the pandemonium settles from President Donald Trump’s bloodless purge of federal workers, programs, and spending.

On Thursday evening, arriving in a parade of lowriders cruising into the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s courtyard, Deb Haaland stepped out of a pearl white Chevy Impala convertible, waving to her supporters. As a citizen of Laguna Pueblo, Haaland was the first Native woman elected to Congress and then the first Native person to lead the Department of Interior as secretary. And as of Tuesday, she is campaigning to be elected the first Native state governor.

In mid-January, at the last possible minute, on the morning of Donald Trump’s inauguration into his second presidency, then-President Joseph Biden commuted the sentence of Indigenous political prisoner and American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier, who is serving two consecutive life sentences having been convicted of killing two FBI agents in a shoot out in 1975 during an FBI paramilitary offensive.