Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

February 12, 2026

Minneapolis: Native People at Fort Snelling, 'Return Dakota Oyate Land'

Minneapolis: Native People at Fort Snelling, 'Return Dakota Oyate Land'



NEW: Indigenous Activists Occupy Land Near Fort Snelling, Plan To Stay Until 'Land Back'

By Unicorn Riot Media, Feb. 12, 2026

On February 9, 2026, Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling, establishing an occupation. Organizers demand land back in the form of “returning Fort Snelling” to the Dakota people, and invite state officials like Governor Tim Walz, and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan to have a conversation, said Gary Spears, organizer with First Nations United.

February 6, 2026

OAK FLAT: SACRED CHI’CHIL BIł’DAGOTEEL MARCH/RUN FEBUARY 5-8, 2026


Photo courtesy Apache Stronghold 2026

12TH ANNUAL SACRED CHI’CHIL BIł’DAGOTEEL OAK FLAT MARCH/RUN FEBUARY 5-8, 2026

The Ghost Flights: Deportation Flights Disappearing Thousands Arrested by ICE


The Ghost Flights: Deportation Flights Disappearing Thousands Arrested by ICE

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Feb. 6, 2026

The Ghost Flights.

We've been tracking the Ghost Flights, disappearing migrants, moms, asylum seekers, and others arrested in Minneapolis, who are quickly grabbed and taken away at a private terminal at Minneapolis international airport.

The charter airlines are making it harder to track them, but here's what we found: GlobalX, Eastern and Omni based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have operated most of these, with Sun Country also operating some of the flights.

February 5, 2026

Ward Valley 'Ground Zero' Spiritual Gathering 2026


Photo by Ian Zabarte, Western Shoshone

28th Annual Ward Valley 'Ground Zero' Spiritual Gathering 2026




Read more: The People Stopped a Nuclear Waste Dump
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'The Birdsingers Rhythmic Journey Home'

The Bird Songs once again guided those who have lived in the Mojave Desert since time immemorial, home to a safe haven.

Llewellyn Barrackman, Mohave elder, said, "The Mojave have no place to go. This is our home."

"We are the Pipa Aha Macav, the people along the river, instructed by the Creator to protect it."

Barrackman's words, before he passed to the Spirit World, were at Ward Valley, during the 113-day Occupation which halted a nuclear waste dump on sacred land in 1998.

Here, led by Mojave, Chemehuevi, Quechan, Cocopah and Colorado Indian Tribes, the Occupation faced off law enforcement, and not only survived in the desert, but celebrated a victory here.