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New Mexico shut down nearly everything to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed by covid. It wasn't enough.
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 62 Comments • 2 Likes • 6 years ago • LOCKED
The governor had been sounding the alarm for more than a month. But by mid-November, it was clear to Michelle Lujan Grisham that she would need to take extreme measures to head off the "most serious emergency that New Mexico has ever faced." With covid-19 cases rising exponentially and hospital...
Failing grades spike in Virginia’s largest school system as online learning gap emerges nationwide
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 18 Comments • 1 Like • 6 years ago
A report on student grades from one of the nation’s largest school districts offers some of the first concrete evidence that online learning is forcing a striking drop in students’ academic performance, and that the most vulnerable students — children with disabilities and English-language...
Wes Studi revisits 'Dances With Wolves' and the changing depictions of Native Americans in film and television
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 2 Likes • 6 years ago
Like many kids who grew up in the 1950s, Wes Studi remembers racing to the television after school and switching on the black-and-white adventures of The Lone Ranger. But he wasn’t tuning in to watch Clayton Moore as the title character. Instead, his eyes were drawn to pioneering Indigenous...
United States Marine Corps birthday
By: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 24 Comments • 6 Likes • 6 years ago
The United States Marine Corps Birthday is celebrated every year on 10 November with a traditional ball and cake-cutting ceremony. On that day in 1775, the Continental Marines were established. The official birthday of the United States Marine Corps is on 10 November 1775. That was the day when...
More Native Americans Were Elected To Congress Tuesday Than Ever Before
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 2 Likes • 6 years ago
“The 2020 general election has been a historic one in terms of “firsts” for more diverse lawmakers—it also saw a record-breaking number of...”
KEY FACTS Indian Country Today reported six Native American House candidates won their respective races, meaning the 117th Congress will have more Native Americans than any previous Congress. The first two Native American women to be elected to Congress in 2018, U.S. Rep. Debra Haaland...
Donald Trump signs Savanna's Act, 'a critical first step' to address missing and murdered Native Americans
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 4 Likes • 6 years ago
President Donald Trump signed a bill Saturday aimed at addressing missing and murdered Native Americans. Savanna's Act will establish national law enforcement guidelines between the federal government and American Indian tribes to help track, solve and prevent crimes against Native Americans....
Why don’t anti-Indian groups count as hate groups?
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 16 Comments • 4 Likes • 6 years ago
“The current understanding of ‘hate groups’ excludes those who undermine tribal rights and sovereignty.”
This weekend, anti-government activists will converge on Whitefish, Montana, for the “New Code of the West” conference — a symposium catering to Western conspiracy theorists and extremists. Speakers range from Ammon Bundy, leader of the 2016 Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation in Oregon,...
A true champion of justice'
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 5 Likes • 6 years ago
“Indigenous reactions of Justice Ginsburg’s death ”
The word of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death spread fast across Indian Country. Tribal leaders, officers of the law, and citizens celebrated her life and expressed fears for the future. Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez said that Ginsburg left behind a great legacy. “She was a true...
Returning to School in Indian Country during the Pandemic
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 1 Like • 6 years ago
As schools across the United States begin the new school year amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Native people face steeper obstacles than many other Americans. According to the New York Times, “The rate of known cases in the eight counties with the largest populations of Native Americans is nearly...