Tag: Native Americans
Backlash over North Dakota voter ID law could rally Native Americans
Tribes – with celebrity help – are mobilizing members ahead of midterms.
Native Americans react to Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test: Stop making Native...
"Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong.”
Ari Berman: Republicans in North Dakota are attempting to disenfranchise thousands...
The law could make a difference in the close race between Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp and her Republican challenger Kevin Cramer.
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, September 20
Lawsuit filed against officers for false arrest, mosquitoes could spread microplastics, Feds pledge more funds to target violence against Native American women, and more.
Why Native Americans struggle to protect their sacred places
While Congress created the American Indian Religious Freedom Act to provide “access to sacred sites,” it has been open to interpretation.
In Indian country, native-led businesses get a boost
Native-owned companies on the reservation have a hard time getting funding and expanding. Two Navajo entrepreneurs want to change that.
How Native American children benefit from trauma-informed schools
Students in these communities are disproportionately affected by trauma. When they act out, adults with training ask, “Is there anything I can do to help you?” rather than “Why are you acting this way?”
Body of Olivia Lone Bear found in N. Dakota as native...
Her disappearance has sparked renewed attention to the disproportionately high rates of disappearance, rape and murder of Native American women across the United States.
A new Native-led strategy for fighting Keystone XL
This is now the only tribally owned land that sits directly on KXL’s U.S. route, and as such could present legal barriers to its construction.
To Native culture, the salmon decision means more than a treaty...
How indigenous food is tied to important sacred stories.
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Trump, the felon, has been making a complete fool out of the US court...
The political destruction of Trump who, as a candidate for president is the greatest insult to our democracy and our Constitution and to the U.S. court system that has constantly bent to him and given him one free pass after another.
Democrats push groundbreaking bill to make Big Oil pay for climate crisis
The Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act would require major fossil fuel companies to pay into a damages fund, modeled after the Superfund, to help mitigate the harm caused by their contributions to global warming.
Corporate greed exposed: Kroger admits to price gouging on milk and eggs amid antitrust...
A top Kroger executive admits to inflating milk and egg prices above the rate of inflation
Putin warns of NATO involvement as US weighs letting Ukraine use long-range missiles in...
Putin’s warning came as reports surfaced suggesting that U.S. President Joe Biden is considering allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles against Russian targets, marking a dangerous new phase in the two-and-a-half-year war.
Trump calls for ABC News to be fired after embarrassing debate loss and real-time...
Trump was fact-checked in real-time by moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis, the former president called for the entire ABC News team to be fired, accusing the network of bias and unfair treatment.