Tara Houska is an attorney who fights for indigenous rights and justice.
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Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation) is a tribal attorney, a land defender, a Mide, a sundancer and a former advisor on Native American affairs to Bernie Sanders. She advocates on behalf of tribal nations at the local and federal levels on a range of issues impacting indigenous peoples. She recently spent six months living and working in North Dakota fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline. She is a co-founder of Not Your Mascots, a nonprofit committed to educating the public about the harms of stereotyping and promoting positive representation of Native Americans in the public sphere.
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Native American activism after Standing Rock: Where is it now?
November 15, 2018
Massive protests didn’t stop the Dakota Access Pipeline from being built, but we should try to measure their success in other ways -- by the lessons learned and by all the people and communities empowered, suggests tribal attorney Tara Houska.
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Galaxies hidden in plain sight, a new role at Netflix and other TED news
September 5, 2018
The TED community is busy with new projects and ideas: below, some highlights. A new galaxy cluster hidden in plain sight. Researchers at MIT, including TED speaker Henry Lin, have recently discovered a cluster of hundreds of galaxies obscured by an intensely active supermassive black hole at its center. That extra-bright black hole, named PKS1353-341, […]
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Be fierce, claim power: Notes from Session 5 of TEDWomen: Burn
November 3, 2017
There’s a theme of Bridges that plays through this conference — and one of the things we sometimes need to do with bridges is burn them, to move forward with no option of going backward in time or space. In this session, hosted by documentary film aficionado Jess Search, we listen to hard truths about […]
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