Albert Bender

Albert Bender is a Cherokee activist, historian, political columnist, and freelance reporter. He is currently writing a legal treatise on Native American sovereignty and working on a book on the war crimes committed by the U.S. against the Maya people in the Guatemalan civil war He is a consulting attorney on Indigenous sovereignty, land restoration, and Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) issues.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Albert Bender

News

Teen students lead Nashville’s largest ever protest against racist police violence
June 8, 2020 By Albert Bender
Organized by five teens: Nya Collins, Jade Fuller, Kennedy Green, Zee Thomas, and Emma Rose Smith. All 14 to 16, four African American and one white, and all female.
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U.S.

Protests against George Floyd’s murder roil Middle Tennessee
June 3, 2020 By Albert Bender
Several thousand protesters—Black, white, Red, Brown—gathered in Nashville’s Legislative Plaza for the “I Will Breathe Rally."
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U.S.

Will the Supreme Court return eastern Oklahoma to the Five Tribes?
May 8, 2020 By Albert Bender
McGirt v. Oklahoma sits at the top of the Supreme Court docket. It's the Indian law case that will decide whether eastern Oklahoma will be returned to reservation status.
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Opinion

Will the pandemic hasten the demise of capitalism?
May 4, 2020 By Albert Bender
There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen.
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Opinion

American hunger: Many are starving as food banks buckle, exposing capitalist decay
April 20, 2020 By Albert Bender
What happens when the food banks have no more food?
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Environment

Indigenous celebrate victory against Dakota Access Pipeline, but remain wary of Judge Boasberg
April 13, 2020 By Albert Bender
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has scored a victory, but will the oil stop flowing?
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Opinion

Boom for whom? The “zombie idea” of a booming Trump economy
February 20, 2020 By Albert Bender
This economy is terrible, for millions, as usual.
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Opinion

Interim Bolivian president Añez calls Indigenous citizens “savages”
January 28, 2020 By Albert Bender
Morales fired back: “For the coup mongers, we are ‘savage’ because we support nationalization, recovered our natural resources and the Homeland’s dignity, and fought poverty."
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