Everything Amerindian
Rosa 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 moreThis move by school officials would be no different than yanking the cross from a Christian girl’s neck. Sourced through Scoop.it from: thefreethoughtproject.com
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Welcome to Native American Heritage Month 2015! November is Native American Heritage Month in the US. On this blog that means there will be two to three posts a week having to do with Native Americans. Last year was a bust, I know. I hope to do better this year. If you have a suggestion for a post… Sourced through Scoop.it from: abagond.wordpress.com
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17 young adults at Kahnawake enrolled in two-year Mohawk immersion class Sourced through Scoop.it from: montrealgazette.com When people say “speak American”, this is one of the languages to speak. Hat tip for the article to Steven Riley @mixed_race
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On July 12, 2015, Paul Castaway was shot and killed by Denver police while holding a knife to his own throat. The police initially claimed that Castaway, a mentally ill Indigenous man, had charged at them with a knife after stabbing his own mother in the neck. Surveillance footage would later contradict those claims and support the accounts of Castaway’s
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Five-Year-Old Navajo Boy Denied Admission on First Day of School Because His Hair is Too Long – Click through for more – Source: nativenewsonline.net See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations
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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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