Everything Amerindian
Rulan Tangen. Photo by Kate Russell In this Episode we hear how Artist Rulan Tangen holds a deep and thorough understanding of dance as a cultural, artistic, educational and commercial medium that can renew culture, cross-pollinate other art forms, express diversity, inspire social, personal, environmental healing, strengthen communities, integrate language and can have a positive effect towards other components
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Published December 30, 2015 RED LAKE INDIAN RESERVATION — On December 22, 2015, the Red Lake Nation Tribal Council voted to accept an $18.5 million offer from Enbridge to end an ongoing dispute over a oil line going through the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. On December 18, 2015, Enbridge officials met with the Red Lake Nation Tribal Council.
Read moreIndigenous peoples’ rights nearly did not make it into the global deal signed at the United Nations COP21 climate summit in Paris, serving as one of the more controversial sticking points in the road toward the signing of the Paris Agreement. Eventually, though, the Paris Agreement came to include five mentions of the importance of protecting indigenous rights with regards
Read moreby Imani Altemus-Williams In 2001, the late Russell Means of the Oglala Sioux nation visited Hawaiʻi where he shared his grandfather’s words regarding the impact federal recognition has had on indigenous peoples. Continue reading Sourced through Scoop.it from: intercontinentalcry.org
Read moreConsumer rights and health groups are calling on the Mexican government to ban a new Coca-Cola ad depicting young white people handing out Coke as a service project at an indigenous community in southern Oaxaca state. The ad has been criticised for its depiction of light-skinned, model-like young people joyously constructing a Coca-Cola tree in town and hauling
Read moreJohn Trudell (1946- ) is a Native American (Santee Sioux) activist and spoken-word poet. His FBI file, at over 17,000 pages, was once among the biggest. He took part in the. Occupation of Alcatraz (1969-1971), becoming the voice ofRadio Free Alcatraz From 1973 to 1979, he was Chairman of the American Indian Movement (AIM). It was modelled in part on the Black
Read moreRapid City, SD – In August of 2014, Rebecca M. Sotherland, a police officer formerly employed for the Oglala Sioux Tribe, was videotaped tazering a citizen of the Oglala Sioux Tribe 17 times while he laid unresponsive on the ground on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Sotherland was indicted by a federal grand jury only days… Sourced through Scoop.it from: thefreethoughtproject.com
Read moreRosa Louise McCauley Parks was the greatest, most distinguished African American Woman Civil Rights Activist of our time. The woman known as “the first lady of civil rights” was born February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama to James McCauley and Leona Edwards, her parents, a carpenter and a teacher, respectively. Her ancestry was a mixture of African American, Cherokee-Creek and
Read moreAaron Carapella’s maps show tribal nations with their original names before there were boundary lines brought by colonizers. Continue reading Sourced through Scoop.it from: indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com
Read moreRemarks: Judy Kuhn (White American) is the one who sings this song in the Disney film “Pocahontas” (1995). The song was written by Steven Schwartz and composed by Alan Mencken. All three are Jewish Americans born in New York who came to Disney by way of Broadway. I would count this as a case of Hollywood whitewashing. Continue reading and for
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