By Carole Reckinger & Antoine Lemaire

Reposted from First Peoples Worldwide

Idle No More is calling for an international Day of Action to be held in communities around the world on October 7^th, 2013.

The Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya, made his final report to the United Nations Human Rights Council on September 18, 2013. He presented six reports that included issues affecting Indigenous Peoples in various regions as well as a compilation of his work while being the Speical Rapporteur.

A surprise decision was made by courts in Guatemala on September 11, 2013 as two former employees of the Spanish dam company Hydro Santa Cruz were declared innocent of the assassination of  Q’anjobal community leader Andres Fransisco Miguel who was killed on the night of May 1, 2012.

Punta Gorda Town, Toledo, Belize

On December 26, 1862, thirty-eight Dakota men were hanged at Fort Snelling in Mankato, Minnesota in the largest mass execution in the history of the United States. Ordered by President Abraham Lincoln, the execution functioned as the U.S. response to the killings that took place during what is now known as the “U.S. – Dakota War.” As a method through which to commemorate the loss of life and counteract the horror of the tragedy, every year, people of the Dakota Nation travel parts of the country by horse, spreading messages of harmony.