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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will pay his first visit as president to Indian Country when he travels to a Native American reservation in North Dakota next week. In an opinion piece published Thursday by an online tribal newspaper, Obama announced that he and first lady Michelle Obama plan to visit Standing Rock
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations (CNN) — Chester Nez, the last of the original Navajo code talkers credited with creating an unbreakable code used during World War II, diedWednesday at his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Navajo Nation President said. He was 93. Nez was one of the 29 Navajos recruited by the U.S. Marine Corps to develop the code that
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations The Senate voted unanimously May 14 to confirm Diane Humetewa to become a judge for the U.S. District Court for Arizona. See on indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations “We in the Northern Plains are experiencing a deadly sub-zero frigid winter & heating propane shortage which has claimed at least one life; help us fix it. Due to an extremely deadly winter here on the Northern Plains, a winter which has claimed the life of a tribal member, we are raising
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations A Canadian teenager is the inspiration for a new superhero in development for DC Comics. Jeff Lemire, an illustrator and cartoonist from Toronto, says that Shannen Koostachin — a young Cree activist from Attawapiskat — inspired him. See on jezebel.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations An Escambia Academy High School student, in Atmore Alabama, said she was denied her diploma and fined $1,000 for wearing a traditional eagle feather at her graduation. It has been … See on politicalblindspot.org
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations ‘Rhymes for Young Ghouls’ is one of several films with First Nations themes screening at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival See on www.theglobeandmail.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations “Members of the Metlakatla First Nation Community near Prince Rupert, BC who collaborated with an international team of scientists in a genetic study of aboriginal people, including excavated remains that link them to their 5,500 year old Grandmother.” See on nativeheritageproject.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Featuring interviews and native talent segments including Olympian Mr. Billy Mills, ‘Red Hook Summer’s’ Spike Lee alongside cast Coleman Domingo, Fred Tolliver Jr., and James McBride, and musical guests Shawn Michael Perry, Beck Black, Arigon Star, MC Redcloud, Crystal Lightning. This episode also features it’s first sports storytelling segment of ‘Games of the North’
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