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The jingle dress: The story behind a Native American dance and its power of spiritual healing
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 13 Comments • 3 Likes • 5 years ago
When the United States was hit with the influenza pandemic in 1918, the women of the Ojibwe tribe practiced a healing ritual known as "the jingle dress" dance. It is characterized by the tinkling sounds made by the silver cones that adorn the dress each time the dancer moves. And now, one...
Minnesota Highway Signs Mark Boundaries of 1854 Treaty
Via: 1stwarrior • Anishinaabe - The First People • 10 Comments • 4 Likes • 5 years ago
“Transportation crews are installing 12 highway signs in northeastern Minnesota that have significant, historic meaning.”
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Transportation crews are installing 12 highway signs in northeastern Minnesota that have significant, historic meaning. The signs, more than a decade in the making, mark the boundaries of a treaty signed in 1854 by the federal government and three Ojibwe tribes —...
Native Lawmakers Ask President Biden to Release Leonard Peltier
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
On Tuesday, October 26, a group of lawmakers sent a letter to President Biden advocating for the release of Turtle Mountain Chippewa member Leonard Peltier. The group of lawmakers are all members of federally recognized tribes and represent 10 separate state governments. The effort was largely...
U.S. in Talks to Pay Hundreds of Millions to Families Separated at Border
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 203 Comments • 6 Likes • 5 years ago
The Biden administration is in talks to offer immigrant families that were separated during the Trump administration around $450,000 a person in compensation, according to people familiar with the matter, as several agencies work to resolve lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who...
NIH is now accused of spending $100m of taxpayer's money on torturing lab monkeys with ACID and snakes:
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 29 Comments • 5 years ago
“DeSantis leads calls for Fauci to quit after he was revealed to have funded horrific testing on beagles”
The National Institutes of Health has spent millions of taxpayer funds to conduct animal testing on monkeys and dogs The monkey testing, which was first unveiled by the White Coat Waste Project in 2019, has cost taxpayers 'nearly $100 million just since 2007' The primates were tortured with...
Diné Organization Files Petition Against United States, Citing Human Rights Violations
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 5 years ago
For decades, the people on Navajo Nation have had no drinking water, due to uranium mining. Today, the Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM) submitted the additional documents needed for a petition it filed in 2011 against the United States over the issue, to the Inter-American...
Illinois House Resolution Supports the Return of Lands to Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
DEKALB COUNTY, Ill.—Late last week, the Illinois General Assembly convened and introduced House Resolution 0504, in support of returning the illegally sold Shab-eh-nay Reservation lands back to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation (PBPN). The Kansas-based tribe was originally from the Great...
Oklahoma Appeals Court Affirms Quapaw Nation’s Reservation
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 5 years ago
On Thursday Oct. 21, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the Quapaw Nation reservation in northeastern Oklahoma was never disestablished by Congress and has existed without abrogation since 1833. The decision was by a 4-0 vote. Thursday’s decision comes on the heels of last year’s...
Fox News Attacks Native Americans After Vice President Harris Calls on Americans to Reckon with Its Shameful Past
Via: 1stwarrior • Op/Ed • 3 Comments • 5 years ago
Opinion. On Monday, tribes across Indian Country commemorated Indigenous Peoples’ Day from Alcatraz Island to New York City and throughout hundreds of tribal communities in between. The commemorations and celebrations featured singing, dancing and speeches laced with truths recognizing the...
Teacher Who Did a Poor Job of “Playing Indian” in Video that Went Viral is Placed on Leave
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 19 Comments • 2 Likes • 5 years ago
A Riverside High School math teacher may know a lot about trigonometry, but she lacks wisdom on life matters—especially when it comes to Native Americans relations. A video that went viral on social media shows a Caucasian teacher prancing among students in a classroom, wearing a...