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Canada’s high court upholds aboriginal title

First nations across British Columbia are celebrating a unanimous ruling by Canada's Supreme Court that recognizes aboriginal title to traditional territories outside reserves.

North America

Lakota stand up to neo-Nazis

Hundreds of Lakota, Anishinabe and white activists converged on Leith, North Dakota, to rally against neo-Nazis who plan to turn the village into a white separatist homeland.

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Nez Perce block tar-sands ‘megaload’

A 225-foot “megaload” of oil equipment hauled along US Highway 12 through Idaho and Montana, bound for a tar-sands site in Canada, was repeatedly blocked by protesters.

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Quebec: #IdleNoMore protesters block rail line

Protesters with the Idle No More movement, supporting a hunger strike by Chief Theresa Spence of Ontario’s Attawapiskat First Nation, blocked a rail line in eastern Quebec.

North America

Abraham Lincoln’s Dakota massacre recalled

At a ceremony in Minnesota, Dakota Indians and their supporters commemorated the 150th anniversary of the largest mass execution in US history—ordered by President Lincoln.

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Cornhuskers pack Keystone XL hearing

At the small town of Albion, hundreds of angry Nebraskans packed the state’s only environmental review hearing for the pending Keystone XL Pipeline.