Everything Amerindian
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 Nanye-hi, or Nancy Ward was apart of the Cherokee Nation and lived in the area now known as Eastern Tennessee. Having been born in 1738, Nanye-hi grew up in the time of European colonialism and war… See on ndnimpact.wordpress.com
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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 Every Indian head brought to Shasta City was worth five dollars. And California’s state treasury reimbursed many of the local governments for their expenses. There were some 150,000 Indians in California before the Forty-niners came. By 1870, there would be fewer than 30,000. It was the worst slaughter of Indian peoples in United States
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations “I’m often asked about DNA projects at Family Tree DNA that are for or include Native American or aboriginal DNA results. Please note that different project administrators have different criteria for admission to a project. Some require definitive proof of descent, some require no documentation at all. This is entirely left to the discretion of the project administrators.
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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 “There are many so-called “allies” in the migrant rights struggle who support “comprehensive immigration reform” which furthers militarization of Indigenous lands.” Click through to read more See on www.indigenousaction.org
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations “I was interested in what their life was like,” Shah says. So in addition to the quantitative chart, they also did a qualitative analysis interviewing 20 people close to the deceased. “I went to a residential school and the things that happened there – I can’t even talk about…that’s why I drank
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations AHOOOOOOOOO and welcome to our stooooooore! Starring: Dallas Goldtooth, Bobby Wilson, Michael Horse… and a White Lady. Support more content, buy a t-shirt!… See on www.youtube.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations On the evening of April 3, entering the auditorium, with only having the trailer of the film resonating in my mind, I knew how profound the feature had the potential to be. Having never read the bo… See on ndnimpact.wordpress.com
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