Great Plains Action Society
@davegpas.bsky.social
Resisting colonization and re-Indigenizing the land and the world around us.
https://www.greatplainsaction.org/
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MOVEMENT RIGHTS IN THE NEWS
Ponca people return to the Niobrara River homelands.
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Ponca people return to the Niobrara River homelands.
READ ictnews.org/news/ponca-p...
August 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
MOVEMENT RIGHTS IN THE NEWS
Ponca people return to the Niobrara River homelands.
READ ictnews.org/news/ponca-p...
Ponca people return to the Niobrara River homelands.
READ ictnews.org/news/ponca-p...
Iowa City Pride 2025
June 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Iowa City Pride 2025
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Native American Women Tell Border Patrol To Fuck Off for Harassing Them About Being Citizens.
June 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Native American Women Tell Border Patrol To Fuck Off for Harassing Them About Being Citizens.
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The Eastern Shoshone this month voted to classify buffalo as wildlife instead of livestock. The vote indicates a growing interest to both restore buffalo on the landscape and challenge the relationship between animal and product. The latest from @siisiiko.bsky.social. grist.org/indigenous/w...
Wildlife, not livestock: Why the Eastern Shoshone in Wyoming are reclassifying buffaloes
(This story was published in partnership with The Associated Press.) In Wyoming, the Eastern Shoshone want to redefine how we see buffalo.
grist.org
April 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The Eastern Shoshone this month voted to classify buffalo as wildlife instead of livestock. The vote indicates a growing interest to both restore buffalo on the landscape and challenge the relationship between animal and product. The latest from @siisiiko.bsky.social. grist.org/indigenous/w...
Des Moines' air quality is deteriorating, with fine particle pollution rising more than 7% over the last decade, according to year-over-year EPA data.
Sioux City saw the largest increase, almost 15%.
Iowa City's increased 1.2%
www.axios.com/local/des-mo...
Sioux City saw the largest increase, almost 15%.
Iowa City's increased 1.2%
www.axios.com/local/des-mo...
Des Moines faces declining air quality while most U.S. cities improve
Nationally, 62% of metro areas improved their air quality.
www.axios.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Des Moines' air quality is deteriorating, with fine particle pollution rising more than 7% over the last decade, according to year-over-year EPA data.
Sioux City saw the largest increase, almost 15%.
Iowa City's increased 1.2%
www.axios.com/local/des-mo...
Sioux City saw the largest increase, almost 15%.
Iowa City's increased 1.2%
www.axios.com/local/des-mo...
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Indigenous Peoples are among the most effective environmental stewards.
Yet, they receive less than 1% of international climate funding.
A new UN report calls for reforms that will benefit these communities: news.un.org/en/story/202...
Yet, they receive less than 1% of international climate funding.
A new UN report calls for reforms that will benefit these communities: news.un.org/en/story/202...
May 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Indigenous Peoples are among the most effective environmental stewards.
Yet, they receive less than 1% of international climate funding.
A new UN report calls for reforms that will benefit these communities: news.un.org/en/story/202...
Yet, they receive less than 1% of international climate funding.
A new UN report calls for reforms that will benefit these communities: news.un.org/en/story/202...
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For the first time in its 248-year existence, the United States government investigated its own Federal Indian Boarding Schools, a genocidal element of the racist settler colonial project by which the country was formed. [Report from November 2024]
unicornriot.ninja/2024/histori...
unicornriot.ninja/2024/histori...
Historic Investigation of U.S. Boarding Schools for Native Children Ends With Scathing Report - UNICORN RIOT
For the first time in its 248-year existence, the United States government investigated its own Federal Indian Boarding Schools, a genocidal element of the racist settler colonial project by which the...
unicornriot.ninja
May 8, 2025 at 7:34 AM
For the first time in its 248-year existence, the United States government investigated its own Federal Indian Boarding Schools, a genocidal element of the racist settler colonial project by which the country was formed. [Report from November 2024]
unicornriot.ninja/2024/histori...
unicornriot.ninja/2024/histori...
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Reposted by Great Plains Action Society
Loved that he spoke in Cree! 🪶🙌🏽
Buckley Belanger is in as Secretary of State for Rural Development. And he is First Nations. A’ho! 🪶🙌🏽
May 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Loved that he spoke in Cree! 🪶🙌🏽
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❤️ Fun fact: The Jolly Jumper was invented by an Indigenous Canadian woman named Olivia Poole.
May 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
❤️ Fun fact: The Jolly Jumper was invented by an Indigenous Canadian woman named Olivia Poole.
JS fashion show by Jamie Saunsoci at the Beyond Fashion Festival in Iowa City. Along with the fashion show, we brought in the talented MorningStar Dance Troupe for a dance presentation and renowned Chef Anthony Warrior to cater a wonderful reception afterwards with Indigenous inspired foods.
May 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
JS fashion show by Jamie Saunsoci at the Beyond Fashion Festival in Iowa City. Along with the fashion show, we brought in the talented MorningStar Dance Troupe for a dance presentation and renowned Chef Anthony Warrior to cater a wonderful reception afterwards with Indigenous inspired foods.
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Arizona lawmakers unanimously passed Emily’s Law, a bill creating a Turquoise Alert system to help locate missing people under 65.
Arizona lawmakers unanimously passed Emily’s Law, a bill creating a Turquoise Alert system to help locate missing people under 65.
May 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Arizona lawmakers unanimously passed Emily’s Law, a bill creating a Turquoise Alert system to help locate missing people under 65.
Arizona lawmakers unanimously passed Emily’s Law, a bill creating a Turquoise Alert system to help locate missing people under 65.
Ripples Of Change
May 2-3, 2025
Omaha
Teach-in and Indigenous Water Ceremony following the Berkshire-Hathaway Shareholders Meeting.
Sierra Club youth advocate Kansas Lohmeier successfully addressed the meeting regarding shuttering Mid-American coal plants.
www.sierraclub.org/.../TheCoalT....
May 2-3, 2025
Omaha
Teach-in and Indigenous Water Ceremony following the Berkshire-Hathaway Shareholders Meeting.
Sierra Club youth advocate Kansas Lohmeier successfully addressed the meeting regarding shuttering Mid-American coal plants.
www.sierraclub.org/.../TheCoalT....
May 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Ripples Of Change
May 2-3, 2025
Omaha
Teach-in and Indigenous Water Ceremony following the Berkshire-Hathaway Shareholders Meeting.
Sierra Club youth advocate Kansas Lohmeier successfully addressed the meeting regarding shuttering Mid-American coal plants.
www.sierraclub.org/.../TheCoalT....
May 2-3, 2025
Omaha
Teach-in and Indigenous Water Ceremony following the Berkshire-Hathaway Shareholders Meeting.
Sierra Club youth advocate Kansas Lohmeier successfully addressed the meeting regarding shuttering Mid-American coal plants.
www.sierraclub.org/.../TheCoalT....
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has rescinded approximately $1.5 million in grants for digitizing records and collecting testimonies related to U.S. government-run Indian boarding schools.
fcnl.actionkit.com/mailings/vie...
fcnl.actionkit.com/mailings/vie...
Native American Legislative Update: April 2025
fcnl.actionkit.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has rescinded approximately $1.5 million in grants for digitizing records and collecting testimonies related to U.S. government-run Indian boarding schools.
fcnl.actionkit.com/mailings/vie...
fcnl.actionkit.com/mailings/vie...
Join us in our annual Missing & Murdered Indigenous Relatives march this year in the Siouxland area. This is a collaborative effort between Red Sky Nation and Great Plains Action Society.
April 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Join us in our annual Missing & Murdered Indigenous Relatives march this year in the Siouxland area. This is a collaborative effort between Red Sky Nation and Great Plains Action Society.
Two Mid American coal plants are poisoning indigenous populations in Iowa and Nebraska.
Iowa’s Dirty Secret: The True Cost of Burning Coal is a short film that examines the cost of coal on people and the environment.
varsitydesmoines.com/movies/iowas...
Iowa’s Dirty Secret: The True Cost of Burning Coal is a short film that examines the cost of coal on people and the environment.
varsitydesmoines.com/movies/iowas...
Iowa’s Dirty Secret: The True Cost of Burning Coal – Premiere with Panel Discussion
Iowans have been led to believe that their energy is clean. But in reality, MidAmerican Energy operates five...
varsitydesmoines.com
April 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Two Mid American coal plants are poisoning indigenous populations in Iowa and Nebraska.
Iowa’s Dirty Secret: The True Cost of Burning Coal is a short film that examines the cost of coal on people and the environment.
varsitydesmoines.com/movies/iowas...
Iowa’s Dirty Secret: The True Cost of Burning Coal is a short film that examines the cost of coal on people and the environment.
varsitydesmoines.com/movies/iowas...
This Earth Day, support Indigenous Resistance and ReMatriation. Donate to the honornativelandfund.org and read more at:
greatplainsaction.org/single-post/celebrate-indigenous-resistance-this-earth-day
#EarthDay #rematriate #landback #IndigenousSovereignty #SmashThePatriarchy #regenerativeagriculture
greatplainsaction.org/single-post/celebrate-indigenous-resistance-this-earth-day
#EarthDay #rematriate #landback #IndigenousSovereignty #SmashThePatriarchy #regenerativeagriculture
April 23, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This Earth Day, support Indigenous Resistance and ReMatriation. Donate to the honornativelandfund.org and read more at:
greatplainsaction.org/single-post/celebrate-indigenous-resistance-this-earth-day
#EarthDay #rematriate #landback #IndigenousSovereignty #SmashThePatriarchy #regenerativeagriculture
greatplainsaction.org/single-post/celebrate-indigenous-resistance-this-earth-day
#EarthDay #rematriate #landback #IndigenousSovereignty #SmashThePatriarchy #regenerativeagriculture
The event is free and open to the general public in person and online. Get the agenda and more information at www.greatplainsaction.org/rematriation-futures
Check out the amazing speakers!
Check out the amazing speakers!
April 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The event is free and open to the general public in person and online. Get the agenda and more information at www.greatplainsaction.org/rematriation-futures
Check out the amazing speakers!
Check out the amazing speakers!