Indigenous Protector Movement

💜 Women’s Warrior Society is meeting tonight from 5–7 PM 8/11/26 at the IPM office. 💜
Come be in community with us, share space, and spend the evening together. We’ll have good food served and cooked by Muck-wa Roberts. 🟣
📍 1113 East Franklin Ave, Ste 118
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Parking is in the big parking lot in the back of the building. The entrance is the door facing the parking lot, closest to 11th Ave.
All Native women, femmes, and relatives are welcome. Bring yourself, bring a friend, and come as you are. 💜

Join the Indigenous Protector Movement on Thursday, August 20 from 5:30–7:00 PM at the Minneapolis American Indian Center for a panel discussion “Our Relationship to Pipestone: Culture, Ceremony, and Protection.”
Pipestone is more than a resource—it is a sacred place tied to ceremony, responsibility, relationship, and generations of Indigenous peoples. As another pipeline proposal looms, we are bringing community together to center Indigenous voices and speak about what Pipestone means, why it must be protected, and what our responsibilities are to the generations yet to come.
We are honored to welcome an incredible panel:
🪶 Gabrielle Strong — VP, NDN Collective
🪶 Iktomi Wašte Winyan — Brave Heart Society
🪶 Nick Tilsen — CEO, NDN Collective
🪶 Fred Desjarlait — Red Lake Nation
🌮 Indian tacos catered by Powwow Grounds will be provided for attendees.
📍 Minneapolis American Indian Center
📅 Thursday, August 20
⏰ 5:30–7:00 PM
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission public comment period ends August 21. We encourage our relatives and allies to submit comments and make it clear: Pipestone is sacred. No pipeline.
Come eat, listen, learn, and stand with us in protection of Pipestone.
Protect the sacred. Protect Pipestone.
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🕯️ Overdose Awareness Honoring & Memorial 🕯️

Every life lost to overdose was a loved one. A relative. A friend. A member of our community.

Join us as we come together to honor those we have lost, lift up the families and communities carrying this grief, and stand together in remembrance, healing, and hope.

This memorial will include:
🪶 Opening prayer and to***co ceremony
🗣️ Words from Elders, impacted families, community members, harm reduction and outreach workers
📝 Poetry reading
🎶 Performance by Jada Brown

📅 Monday, August 31st
🕔 5:00 PM
📍 Powwow Grounds Parking Lot
1414 East Franklin Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55404

If you would like the name of a loved one who passed from an overdose to be read during the memorial, please email [email protected].

As Indigenous communities, we know the importance of remembering our relatives by name. We also recognize that the overdose crisis continues to impact our families at devastating rates. This evening is an opportunity to gather in community, offer prayers, honor those we’ve lost, and reaffirm our commitment to protecting life, supporting healing, and ensuring that no family grieves alone.

Please join us, and help share this invitation with others who may wish to attend or have a loved one remembered.

💜 Women’s Warrior Society is meeting tonight from 5–7 PM at the IPM office. 💜
Come be in community with us, share space, and spend the evening together. We’ll have good food served and cooked by Muck-wa Roberts. 🟣
📍 1113 East Franklin Ave, Ste 118
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Parking is in the big parking lot in the back of the building. The entrance is the door facing the parking lot, closest to 11th Ave.
All Native women, femmes, and relatives are welcome. Bring yourself, bring a friend, and come as you are. 💜

On May 22nd, 2026, over 100 people gathered to witness the signing of a land donation agreement between, Our Saviours Lutheran Church (OSLC) and the Indigenous Protector Movement(IPM).

The event was years in the making.

OSLC and IPM continue to nurture their relationships in hope of opening new pathways of possibility for the community.

Read more: https://www.indigenousprotectormovement.com/mediaroom/land-reparation-as-community-investment-a-template-for-the-future

📣 Many Shields Men’s Warrior Society – Tonight

Join us tonight for our bi-weekly Many Shields gathering at the Indigenous Protector Movement office.

🗓️ Tonight
🕖 7:00 PM
📍 IPM Office
1113 E. Franklin Ave., Suite 118
Minneapolis, MN 55404

This is a space for Native men to come together in community, strengthen one another, build accountability, and continue the work of protecting and serving our relatives.

🍽️ Food will be provided.

Whether you’ve been attending for years or are joining us for the first time, you’re welcome. We look forward to seeing you tonight.

The land donation will become a community centered space rooted in healing, safety, accountability, and Indigenous self-determination.

Land Reparation as Community Investment— a Template for the Future. — INDIGENOUS PROTECTOR MOVEMENT On May 22nd, 2026, over 100 people gathered to witness the signing of a land donation agreement between, Our Saviours Lutheran Church (OSLC) and the Indigenous Protector Movement(IPM). The people gathered were welcomed with ceremony by Sharon Day followed by song by the drum group Midnight Express p

Women’s Warrior Society meeting is canceled tonight. Everyone stay cool and hydrated. Next meeting in two weeks 💜

During his Fourth of July speech, Donald Trump declared that people who teach children that this country was built on “stolen land” are attacking America’s future.

Let us be absolutely clear. The Black Hills are stolen land. That is not an opinion, “Marxist propaganda,” or revisionist history. It is a historical and legal fact. The United States violated its treaties, seized the Black Hills, and has refused to return them ever since. To stand on occupied Lakota land and call the truth a lie is one of the clearest expressions of colonial arrogance imaginable.

His speech was about rehabilitating colonialism. It was about glorifying Manifest Destiny while refusing to reckon with what it required: massacres, forced removals, broken treaties, starvation policies, boarding schools, and the attempted destruction of Indigenous Nations.

When they celebrate the “settlers,” understand what they are asking us to celebrate. They are asking us to celebrate the invasion of our homelands, the genocide of our peoples, governments that violated treaty after treaty, and the occupation of our sacred places. We will not. We refuse to sanitize genocide so America can feel more comfortable with its past, and we refuse to allow our children to be told that speaking the truth about stolen land makes them a threat to this country.

The United States calls itself a nation of laws. Then it should begin by honoring the highest law it entered into with our Nations… the treaties. These were not symbolic promises or charitable gestures. They were binding nation to nation agreements made with sovereign Indigenous Nations whose inherent rights did not disappear because the United States chose to ignore them.

Justice has never meant asking Indigenous peoples to move on while the benefits of dispossession remain intact. Justice requires the restoration of lands where possible, the fulfillment of treaty obligations, meaningful reparations for generations of theft and destruction, and the recognition that Indigenous sovereignty is not a relic of history. It is a living political and legal reality.

Our future does not depend on protecting myths about America’s past. It depends on whether this country is finally willing to confront the truth, uphold its own laws, and choose justice over conquest.

Until then, we will continue what our ancestors began. We will remember, we will organize, we will protect our lands and waters, and we will defend our Nations. We will continue to assert what has always been true.