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For Native Americans on South Dakota’s Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, it can take weeks to get in to see a doctor and hours to get an ambulance after a life-threatening injury. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.npr.org
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More than 200 people held vigil outside Winslow police headquarters in support of a shoplifting suspect shot dead by police. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.azcentral.com Officer responded to Navajo Woman with scissors by shooting her five times.
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The project aims to promote pride, respect, and encourage the use of the indigenous languages of Mexico, through a series of animated stories narrated in these languages and subtitled in Spanish. Sourced through Scoop.it from: xicanation.com
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During MSNBC’s Town Hall featuring Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, a tall Paiute man, addressed Sanders from the audience. Sourced through Scoop.it from: indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com
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The American Indian Movement in Minneapolis hopes to rise again, but first one of its new leaders must shake his gang ties Sourced through Scoop.it from: projects.aljazeera.com
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Indianz.Com – Your Internet Resource. Your American Indian and Native American news, information, and entertainment resource. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.indianz.com
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These are actual tiny child handcuffs used by the US government to restrain captured Native American children and drag them away from their families to send them to boarding schools where their identities, cultures and their rights to speak their Native languages were forcefully stripped away from them. (Photo: US government) Continue reading Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.truth-out.org U.S.
Read morePublished on Jan 27, 2014 Watch the #BigGame commercial the NFL would never air. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.youtube.com
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PROVIDENCE— At its monthly meeting Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016, the faculty of Brown University amended the Faculty Rules and Regulations to change the designation of the second Monday of October from Fall Weekend to Indigenous People’s Day. In April 2009, the faculty voted to change the name of Columbus Day to the Fall Weekend holiday after several months of discussion. Continue reading
Read moreWhere does history begin? New York’s infamous Columbus Circle memorializes the founding of a new world and perpetuates the myth of American exceptionalism, while denying the violence against Indigenous people—a will to ignorance. With a crew of Natives, we asked over 100 New Yorkers to identify the “origin” of our Native models to understand where contemporary Native lives exist in
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