Indigenous struggle

Melanie Yazzie of The Red Nation at the press conference calling on Albuquerque, New Mexico to abolish Columbus Day reads the manifesto of the recently created Albuquerque-based activist group.

Part 2: Leroy Hill, Cayuga Nation, is one of the Six Nations Confederacy chiefs who participates in the land negotiations with the federal and provincial governments.… Uqalimakkanirit

In February 2006, ten women and their children galvanized the community of Six Nations into occupying an area called Douglas Creek Estate to halt the growing land encroachment by the bordering town of Caledonia. The area, Six Nations land, had been illegally sold to a US-based developer to build a suburban housing complex.