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Follow for Indigenous News, History, Politics, and Philosophy North and Latin America. Beyond borders. Quechua-Aymara Goal is to reach 1K followers Linkin.bio/newamauta

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Inuit leaders are meeting for a Circumpolar Council Assembly in Iqaluit. With geopolitical interest in the arctic intensifying, the assembly has heard that Inuit identity is important. www.aptnnews.ca?p=291914
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Some good news for once! Gov. Tim Walz signed a law giving 3400 acres of land back to the Chippewa Natives of the Fond du Lac Band in Minnesota!
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Land Back: Fond du Lac Band Celebrates Return of 3,400 Acres in Historic Transfer
The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa marked a historic moment Wednesday as approximately 3,400 acres of land known as the Cloquet Forestry Center were officially returned to the Band through...
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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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They Planted Their Feet on Sacred Ground. And They Won.
Pe’ Sla Defended by Lakota Youth. A Company Driven Out. A Blueprint for What Comes Next.
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This is the International Indigenous News you should know from all across the Americas. This is Abya Yala News for 22 April, 2026. ¹/🌎
Photo of Protest in Brasilia, led by 7000 Indigenous peoples.
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 20/04/2026
Climate groups sue US government over approval of new BP project in Gulf of Mexico
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Climate groups sue US government over approval of new BP project in Gulf of Mexico
Advocates expressed alarm as new project drills deeper into ocean bed, pointing to company’s failures at Deepwater Horizon spill
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
News update: With 91% of the votes counted, the leftist Roberto Sánchez has reached 2nd place in the Peruvian elections with the rural vote! 🇵🇪 The elections seem set for a run-off between Sánchez, a supporter of jailed leftist president Pedro Castillo, and far-right candidate Keiko Fujimori. 1/2
Presidential Elsctions Peru 2026

Keiko Fujimori 17.04%
Roberto Sánchez 12.07%
Rafael López Aliaga 11.85%
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Being a Latin American leftist can be so tiring sometimes
Peruvian Election Resukts currently: Keiko Fujimori (Popular Force) 16.96%, Rafael López Aliaga (Popular Renovation) 14.53%....
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Peru's presidential elections are today and you should know Juntos por el Perú (JP) and Venceremos Why? They're the only 2 serious parties for a new plurinational constitution to support Indigenous rights, nationalize Peru's natural resources, and end the Fujimori family's influence 🇵🇪
Tex: Pedro Castillo Iibertad; Roberto Sanchez Presidente por una nueva constituciónText Alianza Electoral: Cierra de Campaña Gran Pasacalle En Cusco... Ronald Atencio Presidente, Nueva Constitución, Nuevo Rumbo
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The Haudenosaunee regained 600 acres of land back! The Six Narions Iroquois center run by David Fadden, a Mohawk citizen, acquired the land from Paul Smith's College in New York The goal is to restore the local ecosystem, build a youth camp, and enforce the land's rules in English and Mohawk
A flag of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy flies outside a building of the Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center in Onchiota, New York. The center recently acquired 600 acres of traditional Mohawk homelands. Screenshot of article Indigenous group acquires 600-acre parcel in Adirondack Park with video of green Adirondack forest.
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
This is the Indigenous news you haven't heard about from across Abya Yala (The Americas): 12 Jan 2025 🌎
Shinnecock protestors and allies arguing for the protection of Indigenous shinnecock lands holding placards and the flag of the tribe
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
Some good Indigenous news! The Yurok Tribe of California will get 125 acres of its #landback and be the 1st US tribe to co-manage it with the National Park Service. The sacred land, stoIen to extract redwood trees and gold, will now be used by the Yurok for ceremony and environmental education
California tribe becomes the furst to manage land with National Park Service:

Yurok Tribe, which had 90% of its territory taken during the gold rush, will get 125 acres returned after it was stolen in the mid-1800s.

Associated Press
Wed 20 Mar 2024
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
This is the Indigenous news you haven't heard about from across Abya Yala (The Americas): 03 Jan 2025 🪶
A Yaqui engaging in a traditional dance with a replica of a deer with ribbons on the top
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
This is the Indigenous news you haven't heard about from across Abya Yala (The Americas): 02 Jan 2025 🎉
4 pre-colonial Indigenous women from what is now Mexico sketched out in sequence with the year 2025 bannered over them
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
happy new feliz bonne what year (2014!)
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 26/06/2024
The Indigenous Shasta Nation won back 2800 acres of their land back, the largest in California history! And, California is paying for it! ¹/
California returning 2,800 acres of ancestral land to Shasta Indian nation - by Sergio Robles - June 19, 2024
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
This is the Indigenous news you haven't heard about across Abya Yala (The Americas): 29 Dec 2024 🧵
Members of the American Indian Movement and Lakotas walking in a march in memorium of the Wounded Knee Occupation
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
There’s a huge problem with how the far-right is appropriating “Native American” to mean White American. On top of the support to colonize Canada, Mexico, Panama, and Greenland, this MAGA civil war only proves one thing, Manifest Destiny is returning in full force. Thread 🧵 ¹/
Tweet on X by Vivek Ramaswamy with yellow highlighting on text.

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-norn & first-generation engineers over "native" Americans isn"t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy and wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture.
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
A Nahuat woman in El Salvador was honored for her human rights work. Lidia Juliana Ama, a member of the major Indigenous org CCNIS, was awarded The National Prize for the Promotion and Diffusion of Human Rights by the Salvadoran gov’t for her protection of Nahuat culture, language, and rights
The CCNIS celebrates Lidia Juliana Ama for having recieves the National Prize of the Promotion and Diffusion of Human Rights especially with cultural identity, the Náhuat language, and the rights of the Indigenous peoples in El Salvador - Photo of Lidia Juliana Ama holding her golden human rights trophy
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
The Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone fight to not lose 110,000 acres to Wyoming. The 2 tribes have fought to reclaim this land since 1939 yet, the federal gov’t introduced the Power Butte Conveyance Act to transfer power plant on that land to Wyoming, overturning the tribal claim to land
'This is all we have' Trival citizens Continue Protest if Wind River Land Grab - Elyse Wild  (Native News Online) - Tribal Citizens protesting outside of US Senator John Barrasso's office in Riverton
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
My work is education so if you see a problematic take on Native issues feel free to tag me so I can dunk on it
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
This is the Indigenous news you haven't heard about across Abya Yala (The Americas): 26 Dec 2024 🧵
6 Indigenous people walking in the snow in a forest
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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/... losing 110,000 acres to the state
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'This is all we have.' | Tribal Citizens Continue Protest of Wind River Land Grab
A group of Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone are protesting today for the second time this month outside of Senator John Barrasso's office in Riverton, Wyoming, in opposition to a bill that oppone...
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
🇨🇦: A Cold Lake First Nation man was unalived by Canada’s RCMP force. Fabian Skani allegedly had an “edged weapon” when the RCMP’s use of force happened. His brother said he was “trying to rebuild his life”. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) plans to investigate the RCMP here.
Cold Lake First Nations Man k*IIed in RCMP shooting identified by family - CBC News
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
🇲🇽: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemns the Mexican state for the 1999 disappearance of Antonio González Méndez (Mayan). The disappearance happened under President Zedillo’s Chiapas 94 Campaign Plan, a paramilitary counter-insurgency targeting Zapatistas and civilian sympathizers.
Inter-American Court of Human Rights Condemns Mexican State for Disappearance of EZLN Support Base Antonio González Méndez - Dec 12  2024
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
This is the Indigenous news you haven't heard about across Abya Yala (The Americas): 22 Dec 2024 🧵
Two Native men in regalia dancing in a grass powwow circle
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Here's the Indigenous news you haven't heard about from across Abya Yala (The Americas): 21 Dec 2024 ❄️
Indigenous man in regalia stands in front of a snow-covered longhouse made of wood
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
The Métis do such good work for all Indigenous people
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daanis @daanis.ca · 21/12/2024
There is no singular Indigenous voice. There are many voices and many perspectives, all towards the same end, yes .. but in ways that speak to our particular relationships with the land and waters and all the worlds they contain. Pre-order this book. You won't regret it.
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Here’s a special report of only GOOD Indigenous news you haven't heard about from across Abya Yala (The Americas): 19 Dec 2024 🧵
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
What does Indigenous magic and S-cialism have to do in the Andes? The Quechua philosopher and writer José María Arguedas saw how Indigenous resistance were oriented by understanding themselves in a struggle of classes—Indigenous vs. settler landlords—but how they used magic in this struggle. ¹/
The Sapa Inka with his forces and certain subject bowing to him in front of a mountain - painting
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
This is the Indigenous news you haven't heard about from across Abya Yala (The Americas): 16 Dec 2024 🧵
Miccosukee mаrchers in Florida demanding back the Everglades andnits protection. They're carrying their red, yellow, black, and white stripped flag
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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Sheinbaum creates commission dedicated to Mexico’s Indigenous peoples ‘The modified article of the Mexican Constitution has now been published in close to 60 Indigenous languages. Those languages include Chontal, K’iche’, Mazateco and Náhuatl’ mexiconewsdaily.com/news/sheinba...
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Sheinbaum creates commission dedicated to 'justice plans' for Mexico's Indigenous peoples
The justice plans, created with Indigenous representatives, aim to repair historical wrongs and give Indigenous communities more autonomy.
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Land Back is global #Indigisky
A major win for the Siekopai's land back struggle in the Amazon: Peruvian court officially recognizes their ancestral lands - Siekopai woman in regalia looking forwardThe ruling returns 300000 acres of theit ancestral lands in the Amazon, overturns outdated laws, and sets a powerful precedent for other Indigenous peoples across Pery fighting for Land Back - Native Siekopai with a banner saying "territory"
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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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St. Louis was once known as Mound City for its many Native American mounds. Just one remains
What is now St. Louis was once home to more than 100 mounds constructed by Native Americans – so many that St. Louis was once known as “Mound City.” Settlers
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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Contamination at yet another closed mine in Yukon. "How much more mining can our environments take?" - Chief Dylan Loblaw of the Ross River Dena Council. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
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Ross River Dena Council raises alarm over suspected contaminant leak at abandoned mine
A First Nation in the Yukon says its worried about a suspected leak at an abandoned mine site on its territory.
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This is the Indigenous news you haven't heard about from across Abya Yala (The Americas): 06 Dec 2024 🧵
Native Amazonian leaders calling for Iandback in a march in a US city street
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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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Indigenous Leader Nemonte Nenquimo on Fight to Defend Ecuador’s Ban on Future Amazon Oil Extraction
In Part 2 of our special broadcast, we look at a recent victory for Indigenous communities in Ecuador, where people overwhelmingly voted to approve a referendum last year banning future oil extraction...
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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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Nearly 150 years after escape and massacre, Northern Cheyenne Tribe charts a trail to heal and save history - Flatwater Free Press
Gerry Robinson knows his people’s painful story all too well. The Northern Cheyenne historian and tribal member wrote a book on it – chapters detailing
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This is the Indigenous news you haven't heard about from across Abya Yala (The Americas): 30 Nov 2024 🧵
Top Indigenous leader of Ecuador Leonidas Iza (Kichwa) standing over a massive crowd in a stadium
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This is the Indigenous news you haven't heard about from Abya Yala (The Americas): 29 Nov, 2024 🧵
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
If you're new to Bluesky and looking for Indigenous content, follow me @newamauta.bsky.social and if you're an elder here, spread the word
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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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“Too many of us have died waiting for this day': 44 years after it began, historic NT land claim finalised in federal parliament
The long-standing Wakaya Alyawarre (Repeat) Land claim in the Barkly region of the Northern Territory has been finalised, with legislation passing federal parliament on Wednesday, 44 years after the c...
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This is the Indigenous news you haven't heard about from across Abya Yala (the Americas), "Thanksgiving" edition [28 Nov 2024] 🧵
A march of Indigenous peoples and allies on Thanksgiving

Red Banner with yellow/white text
In the spirit of Metacom
National Day of Mourning
United American Indians of New England
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is the Indigenous news you haven’t heard from across Abya Yala (the Americas). A Thread 🧵 [26 Nov 2024]
Photo of a Native person with a leather vest and a staff walking down a street in Boston with other marchers
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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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How New York City is reclaiming its Native American roots
Four hundred years after Europeans arrived, New York City's Native community isn't just thriving – it's growing. Here's where travellers can learn about the area's original residents.
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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Feel Good Friday read: Alaskans defended repeal of ranked choice voting, powered by Native organizers in every corner of the Last Frontier. boltsmag.org/alaska-measu...
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Powered by Native Voters, Ranked-Choice Voting and Open Primaries Survive in Alaska
Alaska’s predominantly Native regions delivered huge margins against repealing the state’s new elections system, despite facing continued logistical challenges to voting.
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is the Indigenous news you haven’t heard about. A Thread 🧵 11/21/2024
Mayans protesting in a city street in Guatemala
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New Amauta @newamauta.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Why world news is watching Peru: China, the US, and the Indigenous Andes. A thread 1/ 🧵
Protestors and poIice clash in Lima on sidelines of APEC summit
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
The marigolds that were gracing so many #DiaDeMuertos altars the last few days were picked by workers like Adrian. He shares he has been working long hours to harvest the crop in Vista, CA. #WeFeedYou
A farm worker standing in a marigold field where he was harvesting the crop on Thursday.
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