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United Native Americans (or U.N.A.) is a non-profit indigenous movement organization formed by Dr. Lehman L. Brightman in San Francisco, California in 1968 to promote the decolonization and unity of all Indigenous People. 




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United Native Americans General Principles Since 1968.

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United Native Americans has testified before the United Nations Listening Sessions and the U.S. Department of Education’s Urban Indian Education Listening and Learning Sessions and founded Idle No More in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Bay Area rally organizers describe Jan. 6 as 'wake-up call' Crowds gathered in Bay Area cities Thursday to mark the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 siege of Donald Trump supporters on the U.S. Capitol. Local rally organizers describe last year's event as a wake-up call in the battle for democracy.

OAKLAND, Calif. - A large crowd gathered in Oakland on Thursday to mark one year since the January 6th, 2021 siege on the US Capitol. The candlelight vigil, held outside Oakland City Hall, was co-organized by Resistance Actions East Bay, United Native Americans, Indivisible East Bay, and Activate America. Speakers included Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and a number of community activists.

"One year ago today, we all thought it was going to be official. That this constant of American democracy, the peaceful transition of power would happen. How horrified, how frightened, how angry I felt when I saw that promise nearly ripped away," said Schaaf. "It seemed surreal to me and then over time it really sank in that it actually happened," said Gary Lucks of Resistance Actions East Bay. Organizers of the event, used the podium as an opportunity to urge Congress to pass several pieces of legislation tied to voter rights. They included the Freedom to Vote Act, the Protecting our Democracy Act, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and DC Statehood.

"This was the giant wake-up call for me and others, realizing that we have to get engaged, and we’re further away from a reliable democracy than I ever thought we were," said Lucks.   One woman in the crowd, Sonia Diermayer, decided to attend the rally last minute. "I just felt like I have to do something, or I can’t sleep," said Diermayer. "I’m so worried that not enough of us are taking the aftermath of January 6th last year seriously enough, and just feel like we’ve got to raise the alarm." Organizers say they hope that holding events like these will help ensure that another siege on the US Capitol never takes place.




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The 50th Anniversary of the Mount Rushmore Takeover led by #UnitedNativeAmericans Fighting for #LandBackSince1968
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Group gathers during 50th anniversary of the Mount Rushmore occupation August 30, 2020 Chelsea Dickens
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Group to gather Saturday for 50th anniversary of Mount Rushmore occupation

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United Native Americans Testifying Against PG&E @ The California Public Utilities Commission - Voting Meeting California Regulators Place PG&E On Notice Over Wildfire Mitigation Efforts. 

Public Utilities Commission of the State of California Public Agenda 3483 Thursday, April 15, 2021 10:00 a.m.

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U.N.A was founded by Indians for Indians and is controlled by Indians.

U.N.A. has been Labeled a "Militant" organization because of it's Aggressive Stand it has taken and because of the slogan it stresses--"INDIAN POWER", which is defined as Self-Determination, the Right to Run your Own Affairs and to Direct your Own Destiny, which is something Indian People Definitely Need. U.N.A is Definitely an Action Organization and if this means "Militant" then we are Militants. We as Native Americans, in order to perpetuate our Heritage, Exercise Constructive Leadership, and to perfect a Native American Organization which will Respond to the Needs of Native Americans. 

U.N.A. Strives to Improve Indian Image. 

U.N.A. has been one of the Strongest advocates to improve the "Negative" image of Indian People, and has been critical of the "Movie Industry" for their Exploitation of Indians, and the Stereotype they have created of the "drunken, inarticulate, savage." Academic Revolutionary; Lehman Brightman Founded & Coordinated The First Native Americans Studies Program in The United States at UC Berkeley. 

U.N.A. Testifies In Congress. 

In 1968, Senate Sub-Committee Hearings on Indian Education held in Washington D.C., U.N.A. National President, Lehman L. Brightman gave some very damaging evidence against the Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding schools and their policy of taking young Indian children way from their parents and placing them in 'off-reservation" boarding schools, thousands of miles away from their homes. Mr. Brightman called Indian Education under the Bureau of Indian Affairs a "National Disgrace." 

U.N.A. Investigates Indian Boarding Schools. 

U.N.A. has tried to act as a "watch dog" over the governmental agencies that control Indian affairs, and has been extremely critical of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the U.S. Public Health Service for their lack of Aid and callous treatment of Indian people. Since 1968, U.N.A. has investigated four of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Boarding Schools because of complaints of "brutality, - lack of food, -overcrowded living quarters, and to find out why these four high schools were not state accredited." The four government boarding schools investigated by U.N.A. were: Sherman Institute in Riverside, California, --Stewart Institute in Carson City, Nevada, -- Pierre Indian School in Pierre, South Dakota and Phoenix Indian School in Phoenix, Arizona." 

U.N.A. Investigates Indian Hospitals. 

Due to other complaints by Indian people of "poor medical service and other wrong doings," U.N.A. investigated two Indian hospitals run by the U.S. Public Health Service and exposed the "outrageous practices" to the public and Federal Authorities. The Hospitals investigated by U.N.A. were: Phoenix Indian Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona and the Indian Hospital on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in Eagle Butte, South Dakota. 


 U.N.A. has led and participated in many pro-indigenous protests, marches, and sit-ins throughout the United States.

U.N.A. is a strong advocate against the many hate crimes that are affecting Indigenous people around the world. We advocate for the enforcement of all indigenous treaties made with the United States Government, We advocate for reparations and accountability for the theft of tribal ancestral lands and the Protection of Indigenous Nations natural resources.

U.N.A. advocates for the protection of Native American sacred sites and burial sites. U.N.A. has been a Leading Advocate for Native American Education since founding the first Native American Studies Program at U.C. Berkeley and we continue to Advocate for  pro-indigenous curriculum to be taught in public schools (K-12)

U.N.A. advocates to Ban Hydraulic Fracking, acidizing and well stimulation involving the injection of chemicals, acids and other materials into the ground to facilitate oil and gas production have been linked to groundwater and surface water contamination, air pollution, increased greenhouse gas emissions, loss of farmland and open space and earthquakes around the country. 

U.N.A  advocates to Decolonize The Food & Drug Administration FDA & Evict Monsanto World Wide. 

U.N.A. continues to advocate Indigenous People's Influence & Contributions to America and the world. Promoting The American Indians contribution to the world's food supply. Did you know that over 62% of all the food that the entire world eats today was originally developed by American Indian people?

U.N.A. advocates for all Indigenous Nations to end the use of the blood quantum, improving the negative image of indigenous people and ending tribal corruption in Indian gaming. 



46th Anniversary of United Native Americans saves The American Indian Movement 

#UnitedNativeAmericans #Saves #AIM 


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United Native Americans Saves The American Indian Movement San Francisco Examiner Sunday, January 25,1976 Fugitive Indian Leader Banks Arrested In E. Bay By Larry Kramer Dennis Banks, Fugitive Leader of the American Indian Movement, was captured by the FBI at the Home of an El Cerrito College Instructor yesterday morning. Banks, 38, had been sought by the FBI since Aug. 5, when he failed to appear in a Rapid City, S.D. courtroom for sentencing. He had been Found GUILTY July 26 of Being armed during a Riot and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon without intent to Kill. Banks, a Chippewa Indian who was a co-founder of AIM in 1968, is also wanted in Portland where he was indicted Dec.22 for Firearms Violations. Arrested with Banks was Lehman Leonard Brightman, 45, Director of The Native American Program at Contra Costa Junior College. Brightman's Wife Trudy said the family was asleep when the Telephone Rang at 8:30 a.m. "It was the FBI. They said we were heavily surrounded and everyone should come out. I looked outside and they were out by Our Bedroom Window. "My husband said to take the children out to the neighbors, and I did. Then they (the FBI) took my husband and Dennis away to jail." Mrs. Brightman would not say how long Banks had been at the home. The FBI said Brightman will be charged with Harboring a Federal Fugitive. Leader's of AIM were unavailable for comment. Brightman, a Sioux Indian Born in South Dakota, Established The First Native American Studies Program at The University of California at Berkeley in 1969. But two years later he resigned under student pressure. Banks issued a statement, through his Lawyers, from EL Cerrito jail calling the Arrest part of "a pattern established through-out the decades of Indian-White relations. "Every Lawman should live on a Reservation and perhaps they would begin a campaign against those who have caused the misery that prevails daily in Indian homes." Banks also said "the real crime in this country (is) Indian People live in virtual exile in our homelands." "I was born an Indian," Banks said, "and even the threat of spending my entire life in jail and chained, I will not submit my way and my beliefs to be somebody else: I am proud of being an Indian. I will die with that pride." #UnitedNativeAmericans #Saves #AIM In July 1975, a South Dakota jury convicted him on charges of riot and assault with a deadly weapon for his role in the 1973 riot at the Custer County Courthouse. The conviction carried a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. Before sentencing, Banks heard prison guards say he would not last 20 minutes in the South Dakota State Penitentiary. He fled, only to be arrested by FBI agents on January 24, 1976, at Famous Native American Scholar and Civil Rights Leader Lehman L. Brightman's Home in Northern California. Lehman Brightman-National President of United Native Americans,Inc. was charged with Harboring a known Fugitive, charges against Professor Brightman were later dropped in the Interest of Justice. Lehman Brightman Lead a massive petition movement which was supported by Native American Singer Buffy St. Marie, Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, and Marlon Brando appealed to Governor Brown on Banks's behalf. "If during the American Revolution, George Washington knocked on your door and he was being chased by British soldiers, would you help him?" Brightman asked. "He was not George Washington, but he was another Indian who was being hunted down by the goddamn government." Brightman Said
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