Celebrate Indigenous Peoples!

Palestine’s indigenous people and planting

We need to recognize the role of Indigenous people in our nation’s history. In America, all our towns were built on indigenous land; you can see whose land you are on here, and start to recognize Native histories and Native people as part of what it means to be American.

As the earth warms, we are recognizing that indigenous people offer knowledge and a sustainable alternative, another way to see the world. In climate activism, indigenous people stand tall and in the forefront against unrestrained exploitation of their land, extracting fossil fuels, violence and racism. Their wisdom can create the world in which we want to live, a world of peace, cooperation and justice.

Those who advocate for justice in Palestine should advocate for liberation and decolonization everywhere, in solidarity with all colonized peoples of the world. The Red Nation says, “Like Palestinians, Native people continue to resist systematic colonialism by the U.S. We refuse to be uprooted. Refusal is the basis of all forms or anti-colonial resistance, and we, as the original peoples and nations of these lands, extend unwavering solidarity and support to our Palestinian relatives who struggle for liberation from the same violence that threatens to erase our histories and our futures." Read the entire statement here.