Everything Amerindian
See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations While exploring the streets of Ottawa with Judy Graves, one of Canada’s most famous homeless advocates, we happened to meet an adorable mother and son living in a homeless shelter. Annie and Matto are very proud that they are Inuit. They are from Nunavut, which is pretty much on the top of the world.
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations “What makes Canadian homelessness unique is aboriginal homelessness. Because residential schools literally destroyed generations of families Canadian streets are filled with thousands upon thousands of “walking wounded”. The numbers of aboriginal people experiencing homelessness in Canada are alarming, and if this social crisis continues to be ignored it will only get worse. I met
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations The term Code Talkers is associated with the United States soldiers during the world wars who used their knowledge of Native-American languages as a basis to transmit coded messages. In particular,… See on nativeheritageproject.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations “This is the most comprehensive map of pre-contact Turtle Island in existence. It is also unique for its use of the correct names of tribes in their own languages. There are roughly 800 Nations represented. Featured in dozens of articles and on radio and TV shows as well, it is quickly replacing many
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations CBC is launching a new Aboriginal website. Reporter Connie Walker introduces the online community with a tough question: Is it a good time to be ‘Indian?’ See on www.cbc.ca
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Journey with author Scott Wallace deep into the Amazon rain forest in search of one of the last uncontacted tribes on Earth. See on www.youtube.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations The Jackson Rancheria is raising its minimum wage to $10.60 an hour, along with excellent benefits. See on colorlines.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations The Mystic massacre (May 26th 1637) was the worst massacre in the genocide known as the Pequot War. White Americans killed 400 to 900 Pequots, mostly women, children and old men. They burned down their main town, Mystic (in present-day Connecticut), killing those who tried to escape. Most were burned alive. …
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations “Justin Petrone, like me, is a mixed race person with Native American ancestry, although unlike me, initially, he never thought of himself in those terms. I’ve always known and since I was a child, self-identified myself in that way. Like me, Justin has spent years searching for his elusive ancestors, more often than
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations By Robert Jensen, AlterNet “One indication of moral progress in the United States would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Day and its self-indulgent family feasting with a National Day of Atonement accompanied by a self-reflective collective fasting. In fact, indigenous people have offered such a model; since 1970 they have marked
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