Indigenous and Black activist movements have built concrete cross-movement solidarity since 2015.

Evidence

In the last decade, though, Indigenous, Black, and Afro-Native activists have joined forces in notable ways. In 2015–16, when thousands of Indigenous people and allies from around the world gathered in South Dakota to protest the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline through Sioux homelands, Black Lives Matter activists joined them there and staged a rally in Chicago. In the Black Lives Matter wave of national protests in the pandemic summer of 2020, Native activists and tribal leaders marched, painted murals, and issued statements of solidarity. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 514

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader argument of the book about Black and Indigenous solidarity against settler-colonial and anti-Black structures, and to the Dakota Access Pipeline activism coverage generally.