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Push to Return 116,000 Native American Remains Is Long-Awaited
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“Changes to U.S. regulations would seek to eliminate red tape that has delayed the return of burial remains and sacred objects held by museums and...”
The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan held a reburial ceremony for the remains of ancestors that were returned to them in 2014 by the University of Michigan. In 1990, when Congress passed a law that set criteria under which federally recognized Native American tribes...
Senate Democrats propose requiring women to register for military draft
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“Senate Armed Services Chair Jack Reed has proposed changing draft registration requirements to include all Americans.”
Senate Democrats are proposing a sweeping rewrite of the military draft laws aimed at requiring women to register for the Selective Service System, according to a draft authored by Senate Armed Services Chair Jack Reed and obtained by POLITICO. The changes to Selective Service could...
A blaring siren’ for Democrats after ruling halts DACA
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Immigrants and advocates are urging Democrats and President Joe Biden to quickly act on legislation to protect young immigrants after a federal judge in Texas on Friday ruled illegal an Obama-era program that prevents the deportation of thousands of them brought into the U.S. as children....
Indian boarding school investigation faces hurdles in missing records, legal questions
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““The truth needs to be heard from the perspective of those who were harmed,” the leader of the National Native American Boarding School Healing...”
Over the four decades that the Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School operated in Michigan, thousands of Native American children from across the country were taken from their parents and sent there to be stripped of their languages and traditions. The U.S. documented five deaths of...
Supreme Court rules illegal immigrants who re-entered the US after being deported are NOT entitled to bond hearings and can be detained indefinitely
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The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the government can indefinitely detain certain immigrants who say they will face persecution or torture if they are deported to their native countries. Over the dissent of three liberal justices, the court held 6-3 that the immigrants are not entitled to a...
Native American women face an epidemic of violence. A legal loophole prevents prosecutions.
By: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 11 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
“Limits on tribal prosecutions have worsened the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, experts say. Congress is weighing a fix.”
When Officer James Saylor of the Crow Tribe Police Department came across Joshua Cooley parked along a rural stretch of highway on the tribe’s reservation in Montana in 2016, he first noticed the man appeared not to be a Native American, according to court records. Then he spotted two...
SHOCK MOVE US Olympian & Black Lives Matter activist Gwen Berry TURNS AWAY from US flag and says she was ‘p***ed’ anthem was played
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OLYMPIAN Gwen Berry turned away from the US flag as she was "p***ed" the national anthem played while she stood on the podium during a trial event. The Black Lives Matters activist says she feels it was "a set-up" and that she was the anthem was put on "on purpose". The music has been played...
Biden administration to review Native American boarding schools' dark history
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“Biden administration to review Native American boarding schools' dark history”
The federal government will investigate its past oversight of Native American boarding schools and work to “uncover the truth about the loss of human life and the lasting consequences” of policies that over the decades forced hundreds of thousands of children from their families and communities,...
Dem Tells High School Grads They’re Entering A World Of “Capitalism” and “White Supremacy,” Encourages Them To Remember “Jihad” And Reject Objectivity
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A school board member gave a graduation speech in which she told a mainly-immigrant class of high schoolers that they were entering a world filled with “racism, extreme versions of individualism and capitalism, [and] white supremacy,” and encouraged them to remember their “jihad” and reject the...
White House ‘Perplexed’ By Kamala Harris Performance on First Foreign Policy Trip: CNN
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Unnamed White House “insiders” were left “perplexed” by the performance of Vice President Kamala Harris on her recent trip to Guatemala and Mexico to address the root causes of the immigration problems at the US Southern border. This report comes from CNN’s Jeremy Diamond, who joined the vice...