by Kodi Alvord (Diné) “We are the tribe that they cannot see.” These powerful words from American Indian Movement activist John Trudell open A Tribe Called Red’s (ATCR) newest album, “We Are the Halluci Nation,” a musical manifesto of Native resistance expressed through pan-Indigenous collaboration and solidarity. The album reads as one flowing narrative of genocide,…
by Alejandra Padín-Dujon (Editor-in-Chief) This Friday, September 23rd from 2-5pm, Yale’s newly-created Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM) will hold its inaugural Summer Student Research Symposium in Luce Hall. The symposium – the first of its kind since student advocates for comprehensive ethnic studies brought about the Center’s creation last year – takes place amid a…
by student affiliates of the Schell Center Lowenstein Clinic, Yale Law School Human Rights Record of President Paul Kagame of Rwanda to Be Subject of Yale Teach-In Tuesday, September 20, at 3 p.m., outside Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall On Tuesday, September 20, Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, will deliver the Coca-Cola World Fund Lecture at Yale. Yale characterizes President Kagame…
by Katie McCleary (Staff Columnist, Apsáalooke/Chippewa-Cree) On Friday, September 9th, Judge James Boasberg denied the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s request for an injunction to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline underneath the Missouri River. After Judge Boasberg’s decision, three government agencies – the U.S. Department of the Interior, Department of Justice and Army Corps…
by Haylee Kushi (Staff Writer) On September 6, the Association of Native Americans at Yale (ANAAY) posted its “Water is Life” photo series on Facebook to call attention to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Construction of the petroleum pipeline has sparked outrage among the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and its allies, who say that DAPL…