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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 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.
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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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This map shows the boundaries of the current 326 reservations, as well as all of the Tribal jurisdictional areas of Oklahoma and state reservations of the East Coast. Roughly 3% of the lower contiguous United States are still held by American Indian Nations. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.tribalnationsmaps.com
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By Adam Hoffman, Guest Contributor Given my lack of international travel experience, I had assumed that appropriation of American Indian culture was simply an American problem. But, it was standing outside of Apache Pizza in Dublin, Ireland that I witnessed the power of globalization. I realized the problem of appropriation of American Indian culture has moved well beyond the
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The Native Arts Artist-in-Residence for this fall is Gregg Deal, acclaimed muralist, performance artist, and painter of the Pyramid Lake Paiute tribe. Gregg’s work focuses on contemporary native political issues. Check out our interview with Gregg about his current project below. And visit him during public hours in his studio at the DAM. His residency will culminate with a performance at Untitled Final Friday
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Sacheen Littlefeather (1946- ), a Native American activist and actress, is best known for refusing an Academy Award on behalf of Marlon Brando in 1973. He had won Best Actor for playing Don Corleone in “The Godfather” (1972), his most famous role. Brando thought it better to go to the stand-off at Wounded Knee between AIM and the FBI than to go
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