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Trump Derangement Syndrome or the Foolish Fear of Tyranny
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 252 Comments • 2 Likes • 5 months ago • LOCKED
“There is Trump Derangement Syndrome, I believe that in many respects and I think it’s valid” Governor Gavin Newsom, The Rest is Politics: Leading,...”
Recently, a diagnosis has spread through American political commentary. Critics of the administration find themselves accused of suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS): an inability to identify or critically think about the actions of Donald Trump or his administration objectively. To...
Happy Native American Citizenship Day
By: 1stwarrior • Politics/Immigration • 18 Comments • 4 Likes • 5 months ago
“June 2, 1924 - 102 years ago - gads - in our own country.”
INDIAN CITIZENSHIP ACT of 1924 And who else will help us through this mess of being an "outsider" to the country you have lived in for over 20.000 years??? June 2, 1924 - 102 years ago - gads - in our own country. The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 (also known as the Snyder...
Indigenous people honor and raise awareness for relatives who are missing or have been killed
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 2 Likes • 6 months ago
“Many events call for participants to wear red, a color that has become synonymous with honoring Indigenous victims of violence in the U.S. and Canada.”
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Across the country, Indigenous people are gathering this week to honor loved ones who are missing or have been killed and to call for better data collection, law enforcement response and reforms to make their communities safer From U.S. state capitols and tribal community...
Native American Mothers Deserve to Live
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 10 Comments • 4 Likes • 9 months ago
“One line in a press release from New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D) this past week stopped me cold. “One hundred percent of maternal deaths among...”
The statistic emerged from a sweeping effort led by Luján, a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, who convened 55 experts to examine maternal mortality in Indian Country. Their work examined workforce inequities, access to care, data sovereignty and chronic funding shortfalls that...
A land fight pits a sacred Apache tradition against a copper mine
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 10 months ago
The girl danced for hours in the knee-deep water as slanting rain pelted her slight frame weighed down by a sodden buckskin dress. Each step brought her closer to the end of a ritual that also signified a beginning. Several days earlier, Lozen Brown-Lopez had arrived at the top of Oak...
REPORT: Woman killed by ICE agent was member of ‘ICE Watch’ group working to disrupt immigration arrests
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 2 Likes • 10 months ago
“"Drive, baby, drive, drive," a woman who appears to be Renee Good's wife says in a new video of the incident obtained by Alpha News. "You wanna...”
The woman shot and killed by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis Wednesday was a member of a group focused on disrupting ICE enforcement, according to reporting first published by the New York Post. Renee Nicole Good, 37, was a mother who recently moved to Minneapolis and joined “ICE...
The Lie We Keep Telling About Wounded Knee
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 1 Like • 10 months ago
Opinion.Today marks the 135th anniversary of the Massacre of Wounded Knee, which occurred during the wintry week between Christmas and New Year’s in 1890. Nine days before the massacre that left hundreds of Sioux men, women and children dead, an obscure weekly newspaper in South Dakota published...
Former U.S. Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell dies at 92
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 8 Likes • 10 months ago
“Campbell was the first Native American to chair the Committee on Indian Affairs and the only Native American to serve in the Senate during his two...”
Former U.S. Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a fixture of Western Colorado politics for decades, died Tuesday of natural causes surrounded by his family, his daughter Shanan Campbell confirmed. Campbell represented Colorado in the Senate for two terms after serving in the House of Representatives...