Everything Amerindian
A couple weeks ago, a stellar, amazing group of my Native activist friends, colleagues, internet-friends, and people-I-wish-were-my-friends gathered in DC for a taping of the Daily Show (see photo … Source: nativeappropriations.com See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations
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A Pop-Up Solo Exhibition and Performance by Indigenous Artist Gregg Deal Source: www.indiegogo.com See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations
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This September, as world leaders make their way to the United Nations for the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, five brave Alaska Native women are traveling to New York to ask the world to… Source: joespub.tumblr.com See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations
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The family of an 8-year-old Native American girl who was tazed by police in October is suing while the Pierre Police Department say it was justified. – Click through for more – Source: indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations
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Dedicated supporters staged a 15 hour sit-in until the early this morning, when the Alaska Senate passed the measure on an 18-2 vote. Source: www.ktoo.org See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations
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WASHINGTON — Much of the debate over whether to keep the Washington football team’s name has centered around whether it’s actually offensive to Native Americans. Owner Dan Snyder has searched high and low to find American Indians who aren’t put off by the term “Redskins” as justification for keeping it. But according to Erik Stegman, an author of a new report on Native
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A line has been drawn in the sand over Native American cultural appropriation in the music industry. Source: fusion.net See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations
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This interactive map, produced by University of Georgia historian Claudio Saunt to accompany his new book West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, offers a time-lapse vision of the transfer of Indian land between 1776 and 1887. As blue “Indian homelands” disappear, small red areas appear, indicating the establishment of reservations. (Above is a GIF of the map’s
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At the first gathering of the newly created National Congress of Black American Indians, organizers and attendees came to unite and celebrate individuals of both African and Native American ancestry — a subject often fraught with complicated questions of race, identity and citizenship. Click through to read more. Source: america.aljazeera.com See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations
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“the history of Indian boarding schools needs to be brought to the forefront of our collective consciousness in the United States” Click through to read more.