Tag: Native Americans
Native American burial sites destroyed during Trump’s border wall construction
“There has been no consultation with the nation. This administration is basically trampling on the tribe’s history — and to put it poignantly, it’s ancestry.”
Ceasar: Grief and challenge
The intersection of guns, drugs, poverty, scant education, substandard health care, high unemployment, and corruption are literally producing conditions that invariably redound the hardest and worst on young people of color.
Study: Native Americans barely impacted landscape for 14,000 years. Europeans came...
“Our work should cause some New England conservationists to reconsider both their rationale and tools for land management.”
From Alcatraz to Standing Rock: The 50-year arc of Native activism
Tracing the path of pan-Native activism.
Healing from colonization on Thanksgiving and beyond
The gap between colonized and colonizer can be bridged, although it will take a lot of work on the part of both.
Native American tribes oppose Colorado River project on Navajo land
Besides the affront to sacred Native American land and water, environmental groups see a devastating impact from Pumped Hydro Storage's proposal.
Native American leaders: Keystone spill highlights the need to oppose Dakota...
“The era of fossil fuels must end."
Making national parks accessible to native people again
A violent, racist history has kept Native people off their ancestral lands for decades. How can we remove the barriers that still exist today?
2020 candidates address historical trauma, missing Indigenous women & more at...
Exploring the candidates’ proposals to tackle issues affecting the Native American community, including the chronic murder and disappearance of Native American girls and women, land sovereignty, and generational trauma caused by colonialism.
How Albuquerque hopes to meet the unique needs of urban Native...
In Albuquerque, Native Americans account for about 4% of the population, yet they make up 44% of the city’s homeless population, according...
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.