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Son of former Pojoaque governor named White House director of tribal affairs
Via: 1stwarrior • Anishinaabe - The First People • 2 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
PaaWee Rivera, son of George Rivera, former governor of the Pueblo of Pojoaque, is the new director of tribal affairs for the Biden Administration and senior adviser to the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. PaaWee Rivera, who was sworn in the day Biden was inaugurated,...
Exclusive: indigenous Americans dying from Covid at twice the rate of white Americans
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 2 Likes • 5 years ago
“One in every 475 Native Americans has died since the pandemic began: ‘Families have been decimated’”
Covid is killing Native Americans at a faster rate than any other community in the United States, shocking new figures reveal. American Indians and Alaskan Natives are dying at almost twice the rate of white Americans, according to analysis by APM Research Lab shared exclusively with the...
'Trailblazer' Ojibway musician Shingoose dies of COVID-19 at 74
Via: 1stwarrior • Anishinaabe - The First People • 15 Comments • 4 Likes • 5 years ago
“Shingoose was inducted into the Manitoba Music Hall of Fame in 2012, recorded with Bruce Cockburn”
Longtime folk musician and activist Curtis (Shingoose) Jonnie died Tuesday morning at the age of 74 after testing positive for COVID-19, his daughter says. Shingoose, who is Ojibway from Roseau River Anishinaabe First Nation, had been living at the Southeast Personal Care Home in Winnipeg for...
Paul Westphal, Hall of Famer and NBA champion, dies at 70
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
Paul Westphal, a Hall of Fame player who won a championship with the Boston Celtics in 1974 and later coached in the league and in college, died Saturday. He was 70. He died in Scottsdale, Arizona, according to a statement from Southern California, where Westphal starred in college. He was...
University Claims Words ‘Picnic,’ ‘Brown Bag’ Are Offensive
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 18 Comments • 3 Likes • 6 years ago
“Say "gathering" instead of "picnic" and "lunch and learn" instead of "brown bag."”
The University of Michigan has a “Words Matter Task Force.” Seriously. Maybe that’s why out-of-state tuition costs more than $66,000 a year. The WMTF, set up by the school’s Information and Technology Services (ITS) department, has declared that it finds more than two dozen words and phrases...
Even Homer Gets Mobbed
Via: 1stwarrior • Op/Ed • 17 Comments • 8 Likes • 6 years ago
“A Massachusetts school has banned ‘The Odyssey.’”
A sustained effort is under way to deny children access to literature. Under the slogan #DisruptTexts, critical-theory ideologues, schoolteachers and Twitter agitators are purging and propagandizing against classic texts—everything from Homer to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Dr. Seuss. Their ethos...
A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of Native American Women. That History Still Matters
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 2 Likes • 6 years ago
Marie Sanchez, chief tribal judge on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, arrived in Geneva in 1977 with a clear message to deliver to the United Nations Convention on Indigenous Rights. American Indian women, she argued, were targets of the “modern form” of genocide—sterilization. Over the...
For Native Americans, Rep. Haaland's nomination as interior secretary signals a new start
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 1 Like • 6 years ago
“The selection of Haaland by President-elect Joe Biden 'is a deep resetting of the federal government's relationship with Native peoples," one...”
President-elect Joe Biden's selection of Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., to lead the Department of the Interior — potentially the first Native American to do so and serve as a Cabinet secretary — is being celebrated across Native American groups and viewed as a fresh start for tribal relations with...
'Level of suffering is unlike anything we’ve ever seen before'
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 9 Comments • 5 Likes • 6 years ago
“Already in crisis mode, reservation health care buckles under COVID-19 burden”
Initially the death and suffering driven by the COVID-19 virus seemed far away from the Plains of South Dakota. Like the news of wars and natural disasters from distant foreign places, it seemed like a big city problem where people live chock-a-block in high rises and ride densely packed mass...