In Opinion: November is a month to honor the resilience and resistance of Indigenous peoples. On Thursday, the annual Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz seeks to do that and more.
Less than one month ago, the White House proclaimed November Native American Heritage month. This proclamation is proof that the valiant efforts of Indigenous communities to address health and environmental disparities, the return of ancestral lands and investigate missing and murdered Indigenous relatives are being noticed.
In 1977, the council became the first Indigenous Peoples’ entity to be recognized as a non-governmental organization with consultative status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. In 2011, the council was upgraded to general consultation status in recognition of its participation in a wide range of international bodies and processes to ensure that the rights of Indigenous Peoples.On Nov.
The International Indian Treaty Council also remembers on this day that the first prisoners in the Alcatraz Federal prison were California Indians, who resisted colonization by missionaries such as Junipero Serra, as well as 19 Hopis who refused to allow their children to be forcibly removed to boarding schools.
This historic occupation began on November 20, 1969, and lasted 19 months, sparking the national and international Indigenous Peoples movement for rights and justice that continues to this day. The original occupiers were considered to be criminals and trespassers. The occupation ended with their arrest and removal by armed federal marshals on June 11, 1971.
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