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Gathering of Nations virtual pow wow begins
Via: 1stwarrior • Photography & Art • 5 Comments • 1 Like • 6 years ago
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— Although the 37th Annual Gathering of Nations is canceled this year, people can still enjoy the sights and sounds.Co-director Melonie Matthews said folks can visit the Gathering of Nations website or PowWows.com for a free virtual experience starting at 10 a.m. Friday and...
Two Cats Are First U.S. Pets to Test Positive for Coronavirus
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 34 Comments • 6 Likes • 6 years ago
“The animals appear to have mild symptoms and likely caught the virus from their owners. And there’s no evidence pets can pass it to humans.”
NEW YORK (AP) — Two pet cats in New York state have tested positive for the coronavirus, marking the first confirmed cases in companion animals in the United States, federal officials said Wednesday. The cats, which had mild respiratory illnesses and are expected to recover, are thought to have...
Pandemic Panic Has Magnified The Worst Impulses Of The Power-Hungry Elite - Opinion article
Via: 1stwarrior • Op/Ed • 132 Comments • 6 Likes • 6 years ago
“This pandemic has exposed the motives of our self-appointed betters in D.C. and the media, pushing anti-American policies to give themselves more...”
For all the American people’s common efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, we keep seeing a lot of reckless responses from politicians and propagandists. They continue to shamelessly exploit a national crisis to pursue their own political and personal agendas. Obama-era health...
Consensus starts to grow on 'Phase 4' coronavirus relief
By: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 2 Likes • 6 years ago
“Pelosi now appears open to a more focused aid package and Republicans are acknowledging the likelihood of new legislation.”
Congress is finally beginning to sketch the outlines of its next big coronavirus response. Speaker Nancy Pelosi shifted her tone on Friday, calling for a much more focused “Phase 4” relief package to address immediate needs related to the coronavirus pandemic, a departure from the sprawling...
AOC wants coronavirus ‘reparations’ for minority communities
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 32 Comments • 4 Likes • 6 years ago
WASHINGTON — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called for coronavirus reparations for minorities, claiming higher numbers of COVID-19 fatalities in low-income communities stems from underlying inequality. “COVID deaths are disproportionately spiking in Black + Brown communities,” Ocasio-Cortez...
As Navajo Nation enforces coronavirus curfew, Arizona sends in the National Guard
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 3 Likes • 6 years ago
“Equipment is sorely needed, tribal leaders say, as they brace for more cases: "We shouldn't be the last to get equipment. We are the first citizens...”
The Navajo Nation's leaders began sounding the alarm about the coronavirus in February. They broadcast radio bulletins to their tribal members, dispatched community health representatives to far-flung homes on the reservation and translated COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, into the...
Alaska's Remote Villages Are Cutting Themselves Off to Avoid Even 'One Single Case' of Coronavirus
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 3 Likes • 6 years ago
With a deadly coronavirus epidemic creeping northward and the nearest hospital 230 miles away, Galen Gilbert, First Chief of Arctic Village, Alaska, knew his 200-person town could not afford to take any chances. A single case of COVID-19 could lead to the virus quickly spreading around the...
Where coronavirus could find a refuge: Native American reservations
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 1 Like • 6 years ago
“Lapses in federal health policy and reliance on fractured tribal structures raise fears the virus could hide on Native American reservations long...”
The federal health agency that serves more than 2.5 million Native Americans has only limited ability to monitor and investigate coronavirus cases across American Indian communities and reservations, slowing its ability to respond to outbreaks and raising fears that a lack of reliable...
New Mexico's governor warns tribal nations could be 'wiped out' by coronavirus
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 25 Comments • 4 Likes • 6 years ago
“"I'm very worried, Mr. President," Grisham said on a call with Trump Monday.”
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham raised alarms with President Donald Trump Monday about "incredible spikes" in coronavirus cases in Navajo Nation, warning that the virus could "wipe out" some tribal nations, according to a recording of a call between Trump and the nation's governors...
Secretary Of Interior Orders Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation 'Disestablished,' Tribe Says
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 12 Comments • 2 Likes • 6 years ago
The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs told the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe on Friday that the tribe's reservation will be "disestablished" and its land taken out of trust, per an order from Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, tribe Chairman Cedric Cromwell announced in a post on the tribe's...