Tag: Native Americans
Trump pledged to ‘Make America Healthy Again,’ then cut a program...
The USDA has ended a program that dozens of tribal food banks say has helped them provide fresh, locally produced food that is important to their traditions and cultures.
Native American patients are sent to collections for debts the government...
Native communities are twice as likely to have medical debt in collections, agency finds.
The Unfulfilled promises of the Fort Laramie Treaty: A deep dive...
Uncovering historical injustices—the ongoing struggle of the Sioux Nation against treaty violations.
Supreme Court upholds Indian Child Welfare Act
The Supreme Court of the United States upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which maintains Indigenous children under state care stay within their tribe rather than being placed outside their community.
Solving the climate crisis requires traditional ecological knowledge
Native study of the natural world is exceptionally deep and nuanced at understanding and protecting ecosystems.
‘Reckoning’ with the economic marginalization of Native Americans
Efforts to narrow the racial wealth divide must address the disparities that are at the heart of our nation's founding and still run through its veins in the 21st century.
How the Native American population in the US increased 87% says...
Another way to describe this recent adoption of Native American identity is what I call “racial shifting.”
Clueless Santorum perpetrates ‘second genocide’ of Native Americans
Thus do racists defend “manifest destiny,” the delusion that God endorsed genocide, the greatest single theft of land, freedom and property in history.
Pro-fossil fuel senators grill Deb Haaland as she bids to become...
Congressmember Deb Haaland, President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Interior Department, could become the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary if she is confirmed.
‘Indian Country’ is excited about the first Native American secretary of...
Indian Country finally has a seat at the table.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.