Jenni Monet
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Jenni Monet
is an award-winning independent journalist and tribal citizen of the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico who writes about Indigenous rights and injustice in the U.S. and around the world.
Jenni Monet
Time has run out to convince colonized newsrooms that Indigenous issues and perspectives are necessary to the national narrative.
The social network has done more for bolstering the modern Indigenous rights agenda than perhaps any other platform of our time.
Americans saw the Indigenous struggle鈥攖he violence, stolen resources, colluding corporations and governments鈥攖hat goes hand in hand with protecting the Earth.
A landmark decision offers opportunity for healing between descendants of slaveholders and slaves.
At the Trump rally Tuesday, indigenous and Latino rights advocates stood together to protest racial inequality in Arizona鈥檚 justice system. For these groups, facing militarized police is nothing new.
鈥淭his isn鈥檛 the end by any means. This is the spark. The whole world is waking up now.鈥�
North Dakota is stretched thin in its battle to protect the Dakota Access pipeline construction: Costs are nearing $15 million, and police reinforcements are diminishing.
The Sioux tribe is facing a pro-oil president-elect with personal investments riding on the completion of the Dakota Access pipeline.
Recent Standing Rock drone footage makes it clear that time is running out in the Dakota Access battle, and the fight for control of this land is becoming more urgent.
Military-style troops confronted Dakota Access water defenders recently, underscoring the common narrative U.S. tribes share with the world鈥檚 Indigenous Peoples.
North Dakota鈥檚 militarized response to activists opposing the Dakota Access pipeline鈥攁nd the Standing Rock Sioux鈥檚 fierce resolve鈥攔eflect the area's particular racial divides.