WCH: On 1 October 2020 two members of the al-Huwaitat Indigenous tribe in Saudi Arabia were arrested for criticising the Saudi government and its NEOM development project on social media. One of them was detained outside the Fahad Bin Sultan university in Tabuk. Numerous other members of the tribe had also been arrested, harassed and even killed. The Saudi Arabian government was intending to construct a $500 billion new high-tech development called NEOM, including the futuristic supposedly green city known as The Line, on al-Huwaitat land. Authorities offered only minimal compensation, and so the approximately 20,000 Indigenous people refused to vacate their homes. At the time of writing (September 2023), three Indigenous people have been given death sentences, and are awaiting execution: Shadli, Ibrahim and Ataullah al-Huwaiti.

The only treaty signed by the Newe people (western Shoshone) in Nevada. A friendship treaty in which no lands were ceded, the treaty allowed the US to pass through their lands and promised twenty years of annuities, although the US Government only made the first payment. Duckwater Indian Reservation is made of lands the tribe bought itself, and they strongly maintain their land claims have not been extinguished. Also included under the treaty are the confederated bands and western Shoshone 'colonies' now called the Te-Moak Tribe. They tried to reclaim their lands during the Indian Claims Commission era from 1946 until its dissolution in 1978, however they never reached a settlement due to the 'complexity' of their case. Namely, they have never ceded their lands and thus where their lands are was never included in any treaty or other formal legal cessation document. Among other sovereignty struggles, western Shoshone also successfully blocked the construction of the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository. The United States Department of Energy was unable to prove ownership of land and removed their application when the tribes demanded that the U.S. adhere to the 1863 treaty and stop trespassing on their lands. The struggle against Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository continues.

Following the successful Tlingit destruction of Old Fort Sitka in 1802, the Russians returned to try to reestablish a presence in what would become southeast Alaska. Anticipating their possible return, the Kiks.ádi clan of Sheetʼká Xʼáatʼi established a fort at a location chosen to make cannon fire from Russian ships least effective. They built Shís'gi Noow or Fort of Young Saplings, with 14 buildings and a thick palisade wall that surrounded them, with a long shallow gravel shoal approach from sea. An unfortunate accident occurred shortly after the Russian's arrival where a Tlingit canoe bearing an important store of gunpowder exploded. Despite this setback and other issues, the Kiks.ádi held the Russians off for 5 days, lead by War Chief Ḵʼalyaan. Baranof himself was seriously wounded on day one of the battle and Lieutenant Commander Lisyansky assumed command. Realizing the futility of staying under siege with a shortened supply of gunpowder, the Kiks.ádi decided on a strategic retreat to a village to the north, departing undetected under the cover of darkness. The Kiks.ádi relocated to Chaatlk'aanoow, from which they could see any canoe or ship heading toward Sitka and take action. They effected a naval blockade of Sitka for 18 years. American fur traders established a post across from Chaatlk'aanoow, trading weapons and other items to the Kiks.ádi. The blockade hurt Russian profits and in 1807, Chief Manager Alexander Baranov sent a message to Chief K'alyáan requesting the return of the Kiks.ádi and an end to the blockade. They refused and continued the blockade until 1822 when they returned home on their own terms, rebuilding homes outside the Russian fort. They announced, "The mountains around Sitka belong to the Sheet'ká Kiks.ádi. No Russians will be allowed to hunt for deer or bear on those mountains while the Sheet'ká Kiks.ádi are here."

James Somerset was a man from West Africa who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Virginia as a child. His slave owner moved with him to England in 1769. He ceased serving his master and escaped on this day in 1771 and lived in freedom for two months before recapture. Somerset's act of self liberation led to an extremely important abolition case known as the Somerset decision. Abolitionists filed a Habeas corpus on his behalf and argued against the institution of slavery in England and Wales. On 22 June 1772, the judge, Lord Mansfield, found in favour of Somerset. Within England the ruling had a large impact, and in Britain's slave holding colonies the reaction was extremely hostile, especially in America. His act of defiance led to a new wave of abolitionism in Britain and eventually to Britain’s highest legislative body ending the Empire’s participation in the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade in 1807, and twenty-six years later Parliament’s passage of the Emancipatory Act of 1833.