Solidarity for all Indigenous Peoples

Palestinian farmers support Native Hawaiian farmers. We are all one.

The Land of Canaan Foundation celebrates October 11 as a day of solidarity with Indigenous People and the central role of indigenous communities in our history and future.

This renamed Columbus Day is part of the reckoning we are now facing after more than 500 years of colonization. It is a denunciation of the massacres, forced displacement, and outlawing of their language, religion, and culture by the U.S. government.

Indigenous people are our leaders in a path toward a sustainable future, in combatting global warming and preserving the integrity of contributions made to our planet by indigenous communities from northern Minnesota, where the struggle to stop the Line 3 tar sands pipeline under the Mississippi river headwaters persists, to Palestine, where farmers continue to resist an occupation that limits access to their own land.

Indigenous youth are leading the way with unwavering dedication to the land, water and climate. They’re working to end the violations imposed on indigenous treaty agreements by imposing the Line 3 Pipeline that crosses 227 lakes and rivers through the Stop The Line campaign.

Non-Native settlers have the obligation to defend treaty rights of Native Americans because we are bound by them too. Treaty agreements are recognized in the US Constitution as “the supreme law of the land”. They give non-Native people the right to live on ceded tribal land. If we don’t uphold our end, we forfeit our right to be here.

Both the First Nations and Palestinians suffer the loss of their land to the dispossession of settler colonialism. They are part of a global struggle for justice, liberation and decolonization everywhere. Advocate for justice for all Indigenous peoples!